Writing

We have been dealing with a lot of comment spam here at AVC over the last few weeks. Most of it is “guest commenting” where the spam is being posted by an account that is not registered to Disqus (which [...]  Read more

I had an interesting conversation with a friend who operates a traditional business (not tech, not venture backed, not “growth”) last week. He buys a lot of software from tech companies and he observed that not one of them operates [...]  Read more

To all of those who celebrate Christmas, I wish you a wonderful day filled with family and friends. To those who don’t celebrate Christmas, I wish you a day of rest and relaxation. Read more

I recently wrote about my new Pixel Slate . There is a lot I like about it and a lot that I’m getting used to. I touched on most of that in my blog post. But one thing that I [...]  Read more

We arrived in paradise (as this photo shows) last night and we will be here with our family and friends for the next ten days. I plan to write daily but maybe not about tech and startups as much as [...]  Read more

Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of USV portfolio company Coinbase , sat down with Coinbase Board Member Chris Dixon and talked about how Brian started Coinbase, how the company grew, and where crypto is today. It’s about 40mins and it’s [...]  Read more

When Governor Cuomo and the state legislature passed last year’s budget, they formed a committee to address the growing crisis in the NYC metro area transportation systems. That committee was chaired by my longtime friend Kathy Wylde , who runs [...]  Read more

USV is an investor in Multicoin Capital , one of the leading token funds. In late October I attended their Multicoin Summit and spent about 45mins on stage with Tushar Jain , one of the two managing partners at Multicoin. [...]  Read more