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To practice venture is to practice social theory. It's not novel to point out that to really understand what’s happening in today’s technology market, we must situate it within its broader societal context. Yet during periods of intense technological innovation [...]  Read more

Placing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce [...]  Read more

This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit [...]  Read more

This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit [...]  Read more

This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . The market structure for Search is currently being reshaped. Horizontal and LLM-based “search agents ” like ChatGPT and Perplexity are placing unprecedented pressure on search [...]  Read more

This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . The market structure for Search is currently being reshaped. Horizontal and LLM-based “search agents ” like ChatGPT and Perplexity are placing unprecedented pressure on search [...]  Read more