Writing

One of the crypto projects I am most excited about is Filecoin , which comes from USV portfolio company Protocol Labs , which also produced the popular hypermedia protocol IPFS . In this talk, from the Blockstack Berlin conference last [...]  Read more

For much of yesterday if you came to AVC, you were greeted with this message: Long time AVC readers have seen this before and it is a sign that something is awry on the shared server that I run WordPress [...]  Read more

A friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?” I answered “Dapps.” If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on [...]  Read more

I woke up this morning thinking about disappointment. My daughter and I went to the final Knicks home game of the season last night, a loss to the Cavs. One of 53 we have endured this season. The season had [...]  Read more

I was going through my email this morning and opening pitch decks, skimming them, and responding to indicate if they are a fit with our thesis and of interest to me and my colleagues at USV. Everyone who works in [...]  Read more

We have many voice assistants in our lives. I have Google Assistant on my phone. It is great. The Gotham Gal has Siri on her phone. It is OK. We have Amazon Alexa and Google Home in our apartment. We [...]  Read more

In this talk that he gave at the Blockstack Berlin conference last month, my partner Albert argues that privacy is a strategy and not a core value in the information age. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — April 6, 2018 [...]  Read more

It’s been a busy week on the USV news front. On Tuesday we rolled out our new thesis and yesterday we announced our latest investment, ShopShops . I was talking to a young woman this week who we are interviewing [...]  Read more