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Web3 Compensation and Hiring
Matt Cynamon – Dec 21, 2023
This post was co-written with Tom Dils and Calder Zwerling. A version of the post also appears on the Variant website Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive web3 compensation survey of our portfolio companies. Our goals were [...] Read more
A Quick Update On Hiring
Matt Cynamon – Aug 13, 2020
Back in May we published a post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing above 1,000 for the first time since April, we thought we’d give a quick update on where things stand. Read more
How COVID Is Impacting Hiring
Matt Cynamon – May 20, 2020
As the longer term impacts of COVID-19 continue to reveal themselves, one area we’ve been paying close attention to is the jobs market. In our portfolio, some companies have newfound tailwinds and are accelerating hiring. Others are cutting back either [...] Read more
Expanding Our Network
Matt Cynamon – Jan 24, 2020
Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 Read more
Nice To Meet You
Matt Cynamon – Jan 27, 2019
Back in October I read a blog post penned by my now colleague Bethany Crystal about the launch of the USV Talent Network. At the time, I was consulting the French government on how they could attract more American growth [...] Read more