Writing

I wrote this three years ago, on Mothers Day, and I remembered it this morning. So I am reposting it. Happy Mothers Day to all of the mothers out there. It’s Mothers Day, a time to celebrate motherhood and moms. [...]  Read more

When I started my now ten-year journey down the “let’s teach computer science in our public schools” path, I knew that getting students to instruct machines would open up new methods of teaching and learning. But I did not understand [...]  Read more

Two of the more interesting and “out there” trends in tech are NFTs (non fungible tokens) and virtual celebrities. So it was only a matter of time before developers started to work at the intersection of them Virtual celebrities are [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Coinbase has been building an institutional grade regulated custodial service for crypto assets over the past 18 months. It is called Coinbase Custody and it is a qualified institutional custodian which means that investors that are regulated [...]  Read more

I worked for a VC named Bliss McCrum early in my career. He had been on wall street for about twenty five years before getting into VC mid/late career. He loved investing. He taught me technical analysis/charting and a lot [...]  Read more

Last summer I threw out our twenty year old satellite dish and decided to finally go over the top. I put a bunch of video streaming apps on our AppleTV to replace the “linear television” that we had been getting [...]  Read more

John Buttrick has been a partner at USV for almost a decade. He mostly focuses on financial services but also does a few other things for us. In this chat with John Siracusa , John talks about how he ended [...]  Read more

Entrepreneurship and startup investing is a long game. It requires patience, resilience, capital, commitment, and much more. But even so, the average life of a venture capital investment is seven to ten years. It is rare for it to go [...]  Read more

When those words are spoken, we think about the millennials or gen-z, both of whom have grown up with phones in their pockets or purses and are native users of smart phones. However, I think my parents’ generation, those who [...]  Read more