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The back and forth that Elon Musk did over the last few weeks about being public begs the question about whether the challenges of operating a public company outweigh the benefits. Elon wrote this in a letter to Tesla’s employees [...]  Read more

I was born at and spent a fair bit of my childhood at the United States Military Academy where my father taught engineering. It’s a magnificent and beautiful place, full of history and meaning. The motto of the academy, enshrined [...]  Read more

Silvio Micali is the founder of USV portfolio company Algorand , which is building a foundational blockchain of the same name. In this video, Silvio explains what is different and important about Algorand. Read more

My friend Ro Gupta co-founded and runs a company called Carmera which makes real-time HD maps for the autonomous driving market. They do this by operating “an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network” (ie Google StreetView) which captures real-time [...]  Read more

I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlantic Hawks game, initially disclosed in this [...]  Read more

I am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a [...]  Read more

Getting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as smart home controllers. The [...]  Read more

We had torrential rains last night and around 3am, I woke up and realized that I had left the soft top open on our Jeep Wrangler. The lighting was coming down hot and heavy so I waited it out and [...]  Read more