Writing

I have dealt with social media trolls a lot over the years. I have found that these things work best: 1) Ignore them 2) Don’t mute or block them 3) Let their ridiculous comments/tweets/etc stay up to show how crazy [...]  Read more

Crypto Explorers is a community that got it start here at AVC earlier this year with this post . Crypto Explorers is a group of crypto enthusiasts that travel to Zug Switzerland (“crypto valley”) together and engage in discoveries and [...]  Read more

Investing in many different companies, with different founders, different cultures, and different missions requires the ability to adapt to each and every one. I like to think about it as playing a role in a play. Even though I am [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company SoundCloud , which makes one of the most popular apps in the world , is launching a new Home experience in it’s mobile apps today. SoundCloud is the first place musicians post their music and it is [...]  Read more

I spent much of yesterday going through board decks and other year-end reports. It was an incredibly gratifying experience after a hard year. I spearheaded quite a few restructurings this year. A lot of people lost their jobs as a result [...]  Read more

The CEO of Coinbase , a company that I am on the Board of, wrote a note to all of their customers on Friday. That note, which he also posted to his blog ,  urged caution in the trading of [...]  Read more

One of the most impressive startup executions I have witnessed in the past ten years is what the team at Funding Circle has pulled off. They have gone from a team of friends with an idea to the largest non [...]  Read more

All over the city this week, students in NYC’s public schools have been celebrating CS Education Week by doing events and hackathons to showcase their coding skills. Through NYC’s CS4All program , over 1000 teachers have been trained to teach [...]  Read more