By Samson Mesele—Apr 28, 2021

I am delighted to join Union Square Ventures as General Counsel. I am joining the team at an exciting moment. We are pursuing many complex investments across our web and mobile, crypto and climate platforms; our team is thinking hard about structures that make sense for our portfolio companies and […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Apr 27, 2021

Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, posted a message to his team yesterday in which he outlined a bunch of changes they are making to the way they run the business. Some will be familiar as others have done similar things (no more politics on the company’s communication channels, no more committees, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Apr 26, 2021

I saw this tweet in my feed yesterday and I sent some ETH to India this morning. Here’s the @gnosisSafe Multisig address to donate in ETH/ERC20 to this address. 0x68A99f89E475a078645f4BAC491360aFe255Dff1 “If you want”, Plz fill this form so we can reach you for more help and specially if needed for […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Apr 23, 2021

“I like coffee, I like hot sauce, would I like hot sauce in my coffee?” So starts the pitch for this Kickstarter . It’s a good one. Since I like coffee and I like hot sauce, I backed it. Email readers can click here and see the pitch. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Apr […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Apr 22, 2021

Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board . In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say that we have seen a noticeable increase in board diversity in our portfolio. I have […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Apr 21, 2021

A well-known entrepreneur turned VC, who will go unnamed because I am not sure he would want me to share this conversation publicly, once told me “if you remove a founder, you must sell the company within a couple of years or it will start to decline in value.” I don’t entirely agree with that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)