Writing

I backed this one for the Gotham Gal because she is a crossword fiend. Read more

Our portfolio company Protocol Labs is the creator of the IPFS protocol and the Filecoin protocol . The idea behind both of these open source projects is to decentralize the storage of information on the web. The Filecoin project is [...]  Read more

I once asked a famous celebrity chef how he made his pasta taste so good. He answered “Butter. Lots of it.” When we land in Paris, jet lagged and cranky, we head right to our favorite street cafe and order [...]  Read more

This week is CS Education Week . There are CS Education week events all around the world, mostly in schools where students will do an hour of coding. In NYC, where I do most of my CS Education work, there [...]  Read more

One of the things I am most focused on with the new AVC.com, which is coming soon, is a better search experience. I have been impressed by how much we were able to improve the search on the new USV.com [...]  Read more

A number of elected officials tweeted “I told you so” when the news came out at the end of last week that Amazon had taken space in Hudson Yards and will move 1500 jobs there soon. While the question of [...]  Read more

I backed this film project this morning and am sharing it with all of you. Read more

Crunchbase has a story up today explaining that Series A and Series B rounds make up between 25% and 35% of all $100mm+ “supergiant” rounds every year . That’s interesting but what would be more interesting is to compare the [...]  Read more