Writing

Today I’m finally switching off of Capital One because of their broken integration with Plaid . For those who don’t know, Plaid is a service that makes it easy for apps to connect to your bank account. So, if you [...]  Read more

I am feeling reflective at the beginning of this new year, as often happens to me. Today and yesterday especially so, as the kids are back to school but USV is still on break, so I have a few really [...]  Read more

Fred and Albert just posted their annual posts on predictions and issues to tackle for the coming decade. Both are great, and thinking about all that we will need to do to in the coming decade is both inspiring and [...]  Read more

As I make my way through the various predictions & reflections that accompany the new year, one stands out: the EFF’s 2019 Year In Review, entitled “Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future “. I have long been [...]  Read more

Last week, as I have done for the last several years, I gave a guest lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  The class is DPI-662: Digital Government: Technology, Policy, and Public Service Innovation taught by my old friend [...]  Read more

At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis .  The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years.  It is a tool we use to help ourselves know what to look [...]  Read more

A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale , CEO of Coinbase Custody .  CoinAlts is a conference focused mostly on the institutional infrastructure around crypto assets — legal, accounting, [...]  Read more

As I turned to write this, I was in the middle of reviewing a document a friend had asked me to look at a little while ago. In somewhat typical fashion, I had not done it right away, and had [...]  Read more