As I make my way through the various predictions & reflections that accompany the new year, one stands out: the EFF’s 2019 Year In Review...
Last week, as I have done for the last several years, I gave a guest lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The class is DPI-662:...
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...
A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale, CEO of Coinbase Custody. CoinAlts is a...
As I turned to write this, I was in the middle of reviewing a document a friend had asked me to look at a little while ago. In somewhat typical...
Yesterday, we had a team offsite at USV, which included a “presentation party” where a bunch of us gave 3-minute presentations on a...
My son played in a baseball tournament this weekend. His team did well, and finished as the runner-up. The team that beat them in the finals played...
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...
Like most people, I have struggled over the years to comes up with a organizational/productivity system that works for me. Disclaimer: I do not yet...
Community is a funny thing. It can sound like a fluffy word or concept, but it’s actually really powerful. Maybe more powerful than many...
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...
Just about 10 years ago, I had a migraine that lasted two weeks. I have never been in such pain; even an ER visit and a morphine drip didn’t...
Last night I went to see RAIN, a Beatles tribute band, with my friend and neighbor Jeff. If you haven’t been to one, tribute bands/shows are...
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:...
Over the long weekend, I spent a bunch of time with my kids doing outdoor cold weather activities. I love the winter, and I love winter sports...
I gave this talk at the Blockstack Decentralizing the World Tour in Hong Kong earlier this month:
Recently, Simon Morris, a long-time BitTorrent exec, wrote a provocative series of posts on the nature of decentralization, in the wake of BitTorrent...
I am in Hong Kong this week for Blockstack‘s Decentralizing the World Tour (more on that in a forthcoming post). I arrived yesterday and have...