Supply And Demand
I saw this chart on Semil ‘s blog this morning: What is shows is that as the amount of money raised (and deployed) in seed funds has grown over the last ten years, the ability of the companies that received [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: The Noodle Slurp
The world lost a man of taste, adventure, and humanity yesterday. Anthony Bourdain was an inspiration to everyone in our family. He amplified our love of travel, food, adventure, and other cultures. We will miss him greatly. USV TEAM POSTS: [...] Read more
Proof Of Blog
We have a tradition at USV that one of our new analysts, Dani , coined Proof Of Blog. Excited to be a part of the @usv team (it’s official now – based on Proof of Blog). I’m two weeks in, [...] Read more
Taxation Of Carried Interest
The issue of how to tax carried interest, the profit sharing interests that VCs, Private Equity firms, and Hedge Funds receive as compensation for generating returns to their investors, is in the news again. This time it is not a [...] Read more
Deleting Your Voice Recordings
A few months ago, the Gotham Gal asked me to disconnect the Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices we have in our family room. I complied with that request. This is what the two devices look like now: At some [...] Read more
Why Decentralization Matters
So the news over the weekend is that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Many companies and developers are thinking “do I want my source code hosted on a service owned by Microsoft?” Fortunately, the protocol that GitHub is built on, Git [...] Read more
Valuation Inflation
In the blog post announcing changes at SV Angel last week, the SV Angel partners wrote: The amount of money raised in seed rounds has doubled and valuations have increased significantly. I thought I'd go back over the last three [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Paradex
A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Coinbase announced that they had acquired a company called Paradex, which operates a 0x relay (in other words a decentralized exchange). If you want to know more about what all of that means, [...] Read more
Some Things I Read This Morning
I don’t have much to say today that I can say. So I thought I’d do a little link blogging instead. Here are some interesting things I read online today: 1/ Tim Wu on a legal framework called “fiduciary duty” [...] Read more