A historical collection of our writing.
AI has a discovery problem that mirrors what the early web faced. Thousands of AI tools launch daily, but benchmarks get gamed in weeks, marketing budgets determine visibility, and many people still don't trust AI for real decisions. The technology works, but the discovery and trust layer hasn’t […] Read more
The future is electric. Electric vehicles (the fastest “production” car in the world is now electric ). Electric stoves . Electric heat pumps . Electric robots . And of course all the compute powering the AI revolution. At USV we have long held the belief that all of this adds up to a massively […] Read more
The LibrarianUSV is looking for an AI Lead —a technical operator who will help us reimagine how a venture firm develops theses, finds companies, and supports its portfolio in the AI era. You’ll be the builder-in-chief: prototyping tools that help us source founders earlier, synthesize markets faster, and […] Read more
AI can now not only help with the work but increasingly do the job entirely across many service industries. We have been in a time of technology enablement and copilots. In healthcare, dozens of large and thriving tech-enabled platforms like Headway, Alma, or Omada built businesses by making it […] Read more
Matt CynamonThe purpose of our annual portfolio summit is simple: give 100 CEOs from around the world the space to connect and learn from each other. This year, we tried something new. We pulled 16 of them aside, paired them up, and turned on the cameras. No script. Just founder-to-founder conversation. We […] Read more
A few months ago, I asked ChatGPT to “remember” that my 7-year-old son, Max, is a sports fanatic. We were stuck in traffic on a long drive, and my best bet to delay the inevitable iPad handover was to get ChatGPT to generate math word problems. I added, “Use sports in the examples, especially […] Read more
