Writing

My friend Fraser took a large number of AVC blog posts over the years and trained an AI model on them. The result is a blog written by a machine. You can see it here . One one hand, it [...]  Read more

I was listening to this podcast on the treadmill this morning. It is a conversation between Peter McCormack and Andreas Antonopoulos about Bitcoin, Privacy, Freedom, and a lot more. At one point Andreas says that we have digital money already, [...]  Read more

We went to the Knicks Celtics game last night. For three and a half quarters the Knicks and Celtics played a tight game and the game was tied at 95 with six minutes left when Coach Fizdale called a time [...]  Read more

It is tempting to search for the one magic move that will make everything better. A new VP of Sales. A new database layer in your tech stack. A new brand for your company. Moving everything to the cloud. More [...]  Read more

This is a talk that Muneeb Ali , co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Blockstack , gave at their “Can’t Be Evil” summit last month in the bay area. Read more

A regular reader sent me this project last week and I backed it today and am sharing it with all of you. Read more

there is this thing called the Internet which allows anyone like me to connect a server to it and host content like this blog post. Thankfully there is open source software like WordPress that allows me to do all of [...]  Read more

When I was in my mid-20s and had just gotten a job in venture capital, I read a piece on Alan Shugart , the larger than life founder of Seagate, one of the most successful disk drive companies. Alan was [...]  Read more

At USV, we have had a two-year analyst program since the very early days. The alumni of our analyst program are an impressive group of people. Some have their own venture capital firms, some are founders of companies that are [...]  Read more