A historical collection of our writing.
Christina CacioppoLast October, we posted about our search for a new analyst at USV. We received many outstanding applications and spent the fall reading blog posts, following Twitter streams, poking at side projects, and interviewing candidates. We met a number of extraordinary people through the process, and […] Read more
This weekend marked the celebration of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Turing was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and made major contributions to cryptanalysis and started the theory of computability. He died shortly before his 42nd birthday from cyanide poisoning in what is widely […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
About 3 years ago, I wrote how phone numbers might be an important part of mobile identity. I started to change my mind on this last year. Now I am thinking that phone numbers may in fact much more rapidly be approaching the end of their useful life. Why? Because of my recent experience in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday my partner Brad announced our investment in Duolingo. Duolingo is an ambitious attempt to provide free language learning and use all the work by the learners to provide a translation service. You can watch Luis von Ahn’s TED Talk where he describes the genesis of Duolingo from his work on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This will be the third and final part of talking about data types as part of the programming cycle on Tech Tuesdays. Part 1 introduced the basic issue. Part 2 went under the hood and showed how explicit type declarations are one way to solve the problem. Today we will look at another approach and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Brad BurnhamLuis von Ahn is nothing if not ambitious. The inventor of the captcha and the founder of re-captcha has a new goal – to translate the web into every major language. Because web users speak hundreds of different languages, and over 50% of it is now in English, the web remains inaccessible to a huge […] Read more
