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How to Read a Pitch
Nick Grossman – Oct 8, 2019
Yesterday, we had a team offsite at USV, which included a “presentation party” where a bunch of us gave 3-minute presentations on a variety of topics. It was actually a perfect window into everyone’s personality — Andy gleaned lessons about [...] Read more
Why USV is Joining the Libra Association
Nick Grossman – Jun 18, 2019
A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra, was announced today. Libra has been incubated by Facebook. USV will be one of the founding members of the governing body, the Libra Association. Libra is a stable, fiat-backed cryptocurrency that will launch inside [...] Read more
Helium
Nick Grossman – Jun 12, 2019
One of the pillars of USV’s investment thesis 3.0 is “broadening access to capital”, and we often get asked what we mean by that. While “capital” includes financial capital, we have always meant it more broadly, to include human capital, technology infrastructure [...] Read more
Trusted Brands
Zach Goldstein , Dani Grant and Nick Grossman – May 29, 2019
We recently held our annual CEO summit where 65 of our portfolio company CEOs came together in NYC. Because we had updated our thesis since last year’s summit, we wanted to share some of our thinking with the group around trusted brands, [...] Read more
Building a culture of success
Nick Grossman – May 13, 2019
My son played in a baseball tournament this weekend. His team did well, and finished as the runner-up. The team that beat them in the finals played really well, but more importantly, it was obvious that they had a strong [...] Read more
The Trust Equation
Nick Grossman – May 10, 2019
This week was the annual USV CEO Summit, one of my favorite moments of every year (remarkably, this was my 8th summit, and they seem to get better and better). The theme of this year’s summit was “Trust”, which, for [...] Read more
Setting up a system
Nick Grossman – Mar 25, 2019
Like most people, I have struggled over the years to comes up with a organizational/productivity system that works for me. Disclaimer: I do not yet have it down perfectly, and am not claiming guru status. But I do have a [...] Read more
The power of community
Nick Grossman – Mar 8, 2019
Community is a funny thing. It can sound like a fluffy word or concept, but it’s actually really powerful. Maybe more powerful than many things. Community is about helping people feel connected and aligned. When people are connected , they [...] Read more
What decentralization is good for (part 3): growth
Nick Grossman – Mar 6, 2019
Picking back up the series on what decentralization is good for (part 1 , part 2 ), today I want to focus on one of the most exciting aspects of decentralization: growth. In this case, when I say “decentralized”, what [...] Read more