A historical collection of our writing.
Jay YuThe internet was designed to be antifragile [1] - its early architects envisioned it to survive an attack, so that even if parts of it went down, the rest would keep working. But today’s internet has become a fragile tower of libraries, dependencies and developer environments, much of it resting on […] Read more
When I first met Ed Johns and the Machenta team, Ed said something that now sounds obvious but has shifted my thinking: intelligence isn't about existing scale of knowledge and capability. It's how quickly you can learn to do something new. By that measure, the most impressive thing about humans […] Read more
At USV we now work alongside agents all day. They run in our terminals, browsers, servers, apps, and chats, across many harnesses and using many models. Most of us aren't working with one agent, we're working with several at once, and soon it will be dozens, or hundreds, or more. […] Read more
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Nick Grossman Rebecca KadenMichael MignanoFred Wilson
In 2004, USV founders Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham published a memo to the Limited Partners of our inaugural fund. In this memo, they wrote, “we believe that we will generate superior returns by investing in early stage companies that exploit the now ubiquitous Internet infrastructure and add value […] Read more
Jay YuFor some reason, when I think about USV, I picture an evergreen tree. Maybe it’s the firm’s green logo. Or maybe the physical trees sprinkled across each conference room. Or maybe it’s the firm’s decades-long history of being a venture stalwart. […] Read more
