I’ve written before about how re-structuring identity is one of the most interesting opportunities on the web today. Today’s identity...
It’s an overwhelming time right now. Everyone in the world is focused on COVID-19, and to varying degrees, is changing the way they live. From...
It has been astonishing (and largely encouraging) to see nearly every activity that can be shifted to video begin to go there. Over the past few...
Azeem Azhar has a great post up about the brewing conversation about regulation and the tech industry. There are two main points that stand out to...
I spent time over the past few days with several entrepreneurs who are building crypto or “web 3” applications well outside of the...
I spent the morning today at MTA headquarters, judging the “Accessibility” category of the NYC Transit Tech Lab competition, organized by...
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...
Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit. For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook, and I have also been spending more...
We are in the middle of our 2018 Analyst hiring process at USV. For the last several hiring cycles, USV has had an open process where anyone can...
We have spent a fair bit of time over the past year working on security at USV and across the USV portfolio. Anyone who has spent time working on...
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...
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...
Last week, I was in Amsterdam at the Next Web conference, giving a talk about “Purpose, Mission and Strategy” — how companies can...
It’s clear that right now we are in a moment of upheaval and turbulence, that seems to have come upon us very quickly. Pretty much everyone I...
People often ask me how I ended up working in venture capital, and more specifically in a role that deals with policy issues (“policy”...
We’ve got a few Beam telepresence robots at USV, and use them all the time. Fred has written about them here. We had a team meeting today...
Two weeks ago at USV’s annual CEO Summit, Muneeb Ali from OneName explained the blockchain in a way I hadn’t heard before, and which I...
Here’s a slide from 2009, when we were convincing transit agencies to open up their data, and then later building MTA BusTIme: And...