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I like to think of the investing discipline as composed of three key modes of operation. Buying – Figuring out what you should buy and what you should not buy. There are many strategies that work here but my favorite [...]  Read more

I have an excellent voice assistant on my Android phone. I never use it. I could be dictating this blog post using the same voice assistant. I don’t do that except when I want to prove that I can. We [...]  Read more

A friend shared this book and blog with me called Vanishing New York. Both chronicle the loss of the culture and institutions that made NYC a magical place to live in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Certainly rising rents, rising [...]  Read more

At the Code Media conference a few months, Peter Kafka interviewed Kerry Trainor, CEO of our portfolio company SoundCloud . It’s a great conversation about the past and future of SoundCloud and also the past and future of the music [...]  Read more

In late 2016/early 2017, Apple introduced a new app to the AppleTV called TV. We’ve had it on our various AppleTV devices but have not been big users of it until this summer. With our recent move to ditch traditional [...]  Read more

Sonos priced it’s initial public offering last night at $15/share and will start trading today under the ticker SONO. I am very fond of this company and the products it makes. The Gotham Gal and I are surely one of [...]  Read more

For the past six months, Jed has been helping USV build some much-needed tools to connect people at our 60+ portfolio companies to each other. It has worked out well, so well that we decided to ask Jed to join [...]  Read more

I read this post yesterday that says that 40% of VC investors went to either Stanford or Harvard . Frankly, I am not surprised. I’ve worked in this industry for over thirty years. It is full of Stanford and Harvard [...]  Read more

Kin , the cryptocurrency launched by Kik (a USV portfolio company), recently launched adeveloper challenge .The challenge: build a breakout cryptocurrency-based consumer experience. Kinis a cryptocurrency focused on driving mainstream consumer transactions. Kin envisions a world where cryptocurrencies are used [...]  Read more