Writing

When I woke up on Friday, September 27th, the first thing I did was put on an out-of-office notification on my email. That felt so damn good. It meant that for the next twelve days, I was dialing work down [...]  Read more

When you think of founders who have been massively successful in bringing new and novel technologies and companies to market, you don't normally think of a nomad who has been living out of a single backpack for over a decade. [...]  Read more

Code is a mobile app built onchain that allows anyone to send anyone else money anywhere in the world and it is entirely self custodial. Code uses the Kin token that came out of the Kik mobile messaging app. The [...]  Read more

A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups and big companies in roughly equal measure and she told me they were seeing a rising [...]  Read more

A lot of folks who are new to the venture capital business and are building their own firms and funds will email or message me about reserves and recycling. I am happy to engage with them on these very "inside [...]  Read more

I have long been interested in displaying digital art on the walls in my home and office. I wrote this back in 2017 and this when we opened our new USV office in 2022. I have digital art running on [...]  Read more

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successful. Most of these account takeover attacks were aimed at Coinbase accounts. I have written [...]  Read more

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successful. Most of these account takeover attacks were aimed at Coinbase accounts. I have written [...]  Read more

I wrote the email below to a founder doing his first board meeting. Board meetings can provide a leadership team with a perspective on the business that can be very helpful. But many Board meetings are simply reporting sessions. That [...]  Read more