Writing

Andy wrote about our investment in Sofar yesterday on the USV blog . That is our practice. We publish our investment rationale on our blog every time we make an investment. It creates a permanent record of why we made [...]  Read more

In a time when there are so many options for getting around the urban landscape (walking, subway, e-bikes, e-scooters, Yellow Cabs, Uber, Lyft, Juno etc), you would think that the six year old Citibike service in NYC would be “old [...]  Read more

In our talk at Consensus last week , we talked about security in crypto land. There are a few highly trusted custody services in crypto, including the popular consumer and institutional custody services offered by our portfolio company Coinbase . [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Dapper Labs , the maker of the popular crypto-collectible game CryptoKitties , is back with their second game, called Cheeze Wizards , also built on the Ethereum blockchain. Cheeze Wizards is in “pre-sale” mode right now. You [...]  Read more

This past Wednesday, I appeared on stage at Consensus 2019 with Paul Vigna of the Wall Street Journal and Brian Armstrong , CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase . The topic we were supposed to discuss was why crypto has [...]  Read more

I don’t do as much public speaking as I used to. Fortunately my colleagues at USV have picked up the slack and we are still out there telling the world what we believe in and why. I think that is [...]  Read more

On Monday, I wrote : With the crypto winter seemingly coming to an end and spring on the horizon, So why do I think winter is behind us and spring is on the horizon? Well you can see in the [...]  Read more

I remember back in the 2005/2006/2007 time frame when blogging and social media was coming of age, I used this blog as a petri dish to explore ideas like influencer marketing, social advertising, and virality that have become critical parts [...]  Read more

It is that time of year again, when the entire crypto sector comes to NYC. It is called Blockchain Week NYC and there are a dozen or more industry events like the Coin Center Annual Dinner , The Third Annual [...]  Read more