Writing

I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time [...]  Read more

I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of cleanses but the basic idea is you cut back your consumption of food and drink and replace it with [...]  Read more

I wrote last week that I have started coding again. And I have been amazed at how much easier it is now that I can code and deploy in the cloud without having to spin up anything myself. But the [...]  Read more

It has been many years since I’ve written code. I’ve hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this blog and a few other places. But I have not actually written an application in a very long time. I [...]  Read more

I read last week that the NYC Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from its networks and devices . I understand that reaction and mentioned the issues that AI/ML create for educators in a post a few weeks ago . [...]  Read more

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around [...]  Read more

I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will [...]  Read more

As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson · Backing It When No One Believed I hope you enjoy it. USV TEAM POSTS: Andy Weissman — Dec 15, 2022 Mombak Albert Wenger — Dec 11, [...]  Read more

I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC . It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman [...]  Read more