Writing

I posted earlier this week on Libra and USV’s involvement in this project Laura Shin had Dante Disparde of the Libra Association on her Unconfirmed Podcast yesterday. This is a good and relatively quick way to get up to speed [...]  Read more

Jerry Colonna ‘s book, Reboot , came out this week. He had given me the manuscript to read so many months ago that I had to go back and read it again before I could write about it. So I [...]  Read more

Thirty-two years ago, the Gotham Gal and I got married. We had been together for five years at that time. We have now been together for thirty-seven years. A relationship that has lasted almost four decades is a special thing. [...]  Read more

Last year, during its annual “crypto week”, our portfolio company Cloudflare shipped an IPFS gateway. I wrote about that then . This year, they have shipped an Ethereum gateway . It is great to see a very large Internet infrastrcuture [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal and I walked into the Musee de l’Orangerie yesterday and found a line of about 20 people waiting to purchase tickets to enter. The Gotham Gal whipped out her phone, went to the Orangerie website, and bought [...]  Read more

Peter Kafka interviewed YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Recode Conference last week. It’s an interesting discussion about many of the issues facing YouTube and the Internet at large right now. Read more

Our portfolio company Cloudflare provides a suite of mission critical security services, and increasingly other services too, in the cloud to their customers. Among the most well known of these security services is DDOS protection (aka denial of service attack [...]  Read more