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Software systems have largely been governed by the companies that operate them. The Washington Post reports that Twitter has been suspending more than a million accounts a day recently. That certainly is necessary given all of the fake accounts, bots, [...]  Read more

In this video, AVC regular William Mougayar describes the fundamental properties of a blockchain native application. The key section starts at 4mins and goes for about two minutes. If you want to see the slides, which are not visible in [...]  Read more

Like many of you, I had an incredibly frustrating experience with a credit agency today. It was TransUnion but I’ve had equally frustrating experiences with Equifax and others since locking down our credit information in the wake of the Equifax [...]  Read more

I’m sitting here on a park bench outside my favorite coffee shop, where I’ve been writing my daily posts for the last week and a half on my phone, and I’m staring at our flag. Normally, a scene like this [...]  Read more

This seems right to me: “In post-industrial environments where foods are abundant and readily available, our cravings for fat and sugar sculpted by distant evolutionary pressures can easily go into insatiable overdrive and lead to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease [...]  Read more

We spent the last week getting a project we’ve been working on for two years over the finish line. I find that the last 10% is so much harder than the first 90% of any project. That is true whether [...]  Read more

Yesterday, Brian Armstrong , the founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase , announced the formation of a new non-profit called GiveCrypto.org . Joanne and I are donating some of our Bitcoin to this charitable effort. Here is a [...]  Read more