The week before last, we lost a dear friend to cancer. Deb was an incredibly sweet, caring and giving person. The memorial service last weekend was...
Today is the last day of September, and I’m happy and relieved to see it go. I’ve been holding my breath. September is a violent month...
Yesterday, in the process of cleaning out my closet and donating a bunch of old clothes, I did something I’ve wanted to do for a long time: got...
In the world of startups and investing and ideas, things are always chaotic and fluid, and as such a key skill is to somehow cut through the noise...
I was emailing with a friend recently, who asked: “On the web, in order to build a platform you first need a hit app. Do you think this dynamic...
The beauty, and the danger, of the internet is that it’s open to everyone. Anyone can put up a website, about pretty much anything. This...
I had lunch yesterday with someone who has been investing in the crypto / token space recently — having pooled together a small...
We recently had our daughter’s birthday party, and we held it in a public park near our house, where there’s an old parks department...
Yesterday, I caught up with my old friend Gary Chou. Gary was the first General Manager of the USV Portfolio Network (predating Brittany and...
I’ve been doing more public speaking recently, and finally assembled videos into a single place: As I look at that list, I realize that...
I’m on vacation this week, and we have some old friends and their family staying with us. Last night we got to talking about therapy (like...
I am on a plane right now, watching home renovation shows on HGTV, thinking about how much fun it is to fix things up. Doing projects around the...
I was out last night with some of the little league coach dads, and we got to talking about whether it’s better for our kids to be bumped up a...
A lot of founders / teams have been asking if they should be adopting a cryptocurrency strategy. This is understandable given the frenzy of...
Last month, I went to the (most beautiful city in the world) Amsterdam, to speak at The Next Web Conference. I did two talks, one at a sub...
I just got done coaching my son’s baseball practice. It has been amazing to watch this group of 7 and 8 year olds improve over the course of...
One thing that’s interesting about yesterday’s Basic Attention Token sale is how quickly it went – $36M transacted in 30...
In case you missed it, today Brave raised $36M for the Basic Attention Token. They had allocated 30 days for the token sale, but sold out of 1B BAT...
As cryptocurrencies and blockchains have continued to gain steam (and attract capital), a common question in the air is, what type of leader does it...
As more areas of our economy become computerized and move online, more and more of what regulators need to understand will be in the source code. For...