Writing

I was talking when I should have been listening - Grant Hart As venture investors, we look at our investments and investment strategy continuously at a macro level. Questions like: how much are we investing and how fast? How does [...]  Read more

God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung - Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in [...]  Read more

"I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong" About seven years ago I came across an online music service that, instead of charging fixed fees for the digital files (there was no streaming back then), instead used a formula [...]  Read more

Ain't lost yet, so I gotta be a winner - Paul Westerberg A number of years ago we were fundraising for betaworks. I can't remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we'd been out [...]  Read more

Amazon Web Services are defined as "a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform in the cloud.” This definition belies just how profound those sets of services actually are. I remember back in 2008 [...]  Read more

Over the holiday, I was visiting my mother on the upper east side of Manhattan. To get to her place from the subway I needed to cross 86th Street at 3rd Avenue. I've been crossing that street since I was [...]  Read more

My house ain't done, but it's alright, floors ain't level, but I ain't some suburbanite. Who cares about bathroom tiles, straight lines and building codes and Chinese wind chimes. My house ain't done, but it's fine, come out here from [...]  Read more