Writing

There is a lot of chatter on Tech Twitter and elsewhere about the Instagram founders leaving Facebook six years after selling their company to Facebook. All I can say about that situation is they gave Facebook way more of their [...]  Read more

I’ve been interviewed many times and while interviews are OK, what I enjoy a lot more are public conversations between two people. Listening to two people talking as friends and peers is more enlightening to me. My friend Chris Dixon [...]  Read more

This is a short clip from a longer conversation that Ben Horowitz did at Disrupt a few weeks ago . In this clip, Ben describes crypto as a new kind of computing platform that is worse in every way (right [...]  Read more

A few weeks ago, I wrote that I was getting more interested in a Chromebook . And I got a ton of great feedback from all of you. Thank you for that. I purchased a Pixelbook and have been using [...]  Read more

Henry Ward , founder and CEO of our portfolio company Carta , wrote a post yesterday outlining the gender inequity on cap tables throughout the startup landscape . It is a good post and I would recommend you click through [...]  Read more

This post is jam-packed with conflicts. It is about not one, but two, of USV’s portfolio companies. The more the better in my view. Our portfolio company Cloudflare announced yesterday that they have launched an IPFS Gateway . IPFS is [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal and I listened to the recent Howard Stern interview of Paul McCartney yesterday on a drive from long island to NYC. It’s a great interview, about 1 1/2 hours long, with incredible stories and lots of music. [...]  Read more

The New York Times has a piece up on Eliud Kipchoge , the world’s best marathon runner. I read it with interest yesterday as I like to think of startups as marathons and I am always on the lookout for [...]  Read more