Writing

Joel Monegro , who is one of the Partners at Placeholder and a former USV analyst, has written an important post that outlines the relationships between the three primary stakeholders in a cryptonetwork; users, miners/validators, and investors. Joel calls it [...]  Read more

Flip is a USV portfolio company. They provide a suite of services to renters that allow them to easily flip out of leases and move when they need to with the cooperation of landlords. Before Flip was a USV portfolio [...]  Read more

As many of you know, I have been spending a fair bit of my time on K12 Computer Science Education over the last decade. The good news is that over that time period, there has been massive progress in getting [...]  Read more

As is always the case, I got a lot of feedback on yesterday’s predictions post . Most of it was constructive . Some of it was fawning (yuck). And some of it was snickering . That’s how it goes when [...]  Read more

Hi Everyone. Happy 2019. Today, as is my custom on the first day of the new year, I am going to take a stab at what the year ahead will bring. I find it useful to think about what we [...]  Read more

Continuing the year end theme, it is time for my annual recap of what happened this year, to be followed by a look forward tomorrow on the first day of the new year. Last year I was not particularly confident [...]  Read more

As is my tradition as the end of the year nears, here are the songs that stayed with me in 2018. It is a mix of songs everyone knows, like the marvelous All The Stars from the Black Panther soundtrack [...]  Read more

My partner Brad Burnham recently went on Jason Calacanis ‘ This Week In Startups . It is a longish (just over an hour) conversation and they cover a lot of territory. Read more

At the tail end of the post that I wrote on how USV (me in particular) missed the first round for Airbnb , I wrote: We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what [...]  Read more