We’re Hiring
USV is looking for an AI Lead —a technical operator who will help us reimagine how a venture firm develops theses, finds companies, and supports its portfolio in the AI era. You’ll be the builder-in-chief: prototyping tools that help us [...] Read more
After Hours: In Search of Native Business Models
AI can now not only help with the work but increasingly do the job entirely across many service industries. We have been in a time of technology enablement and copilots. In healthcare, dozens of large and thriving tech-enabled platforms like [...] Read more
Edge Cases
The purpose of our annual portfolio summit is simple: give 100 CEOs from around the world the space to connect and learn from each other. This year, we tried something new. We pulled 16 of them aside, paired them up, [...] Read more
In Favor of Forgetting
A few months ago, I asked ChatGPT to “remember” that my 7-year-old son, Max, is a sports fanatic. We were stuck in traffic on a long drive, and my best bet to delay the inevitable iPad handover was to get [...] Read more
Tools vs Truth
As the application layer of AI takes off, the big question is bubbling of what happens to our aggregated data that becomes our personal source of truth. Who owns it? Who controls it? How is it accessed, stored, and protected? [...] Read more
The rebel alliance
This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante , and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, ' You don't own your memory .' We need an open architecture that puts us [...] Read more