I think a lot about systems — for personal organization, for business automation, for urban information, for financial infrastructure, for the...
I’m supposed to be in Europe this week to speak at a conference and attend another one, but I decided to stay home, to be safe. I am hearing...
I am flying home from Europe today (by way of Reykjavik) and as a result, have a lot of time to catch up on things. I have spent the bulk of the day...
I was out with some friends over the summer, one of whom is a college soccer coach, and we were talking about what it is that makes great teams great...
A few years ago I wrote about one of my favorite product sayings: “Half, Not Half-Assed“, which comes from my favorite book on product...
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a...
This week was the annual USV CEO Summit, one of my favorite moments of every year (remarkably, this was my 8th summit, and they seem to get better...
Picking back up the series on what decentralization is good for (part 1, part 2), today I want to focus on one of the most exciting aspects of...
Continuing on the theme of what decentralization is good for, this week I would like to focus on one of the most powerful drivers in the near-term:...
Today is election day. I’m on a plane today, so I voted early, a few days ago. I cast my vote and it felt good. I marked my paper ballot with...
Dani and I have been spending a bunch of time recently thinking about the relationship between applications and infrastructure. It’s a little...
My favorite baseball player is Brock Holt, and has been since his first season with the Red Sox back in 2013. Here is me last month wearing my Holt...
Back in May, I had what ended up being a major hand surgery — repairing a torn tendon and in the process reconstructing the end of my pinkie by...
A central concept on the internet is Layering. Each of the protocols in the internet stack talks to the layer directly above and below it —...
In June, the SEC gave some of its most concrete guidance to date that cryptoassets can start out as centralized projects, possibly initially sold...
There is no shortage of writing and punditry about the power of compound interest. As usual Naval has a pithy tweet about it: Play iterated games...
One of my former colleagues, Rob Marianski, and I used to have a running joke — we would be building and debugging something, and he’d...
Ryan Caldbeck is on fire on Twitter right now. Ryan is the CEO of our portfolio company CircleUp, and he just joined Twitter for the first time...
I have been down in DC the last few weeks, among other things, talking to lawmakers and regulators about cryptonetworks and cryptocurrencies. As...
An idea I like from Zen Buddhism is becoming a Bigger Container. My understanding of the idea is this: There are a lot of difficult/bad/sad/scary...