NBA Top Shot Public Launch
Our portfolio company Dapper took the ropes off NBA Top Shot this past week and it is now open to anyone who wants to play…
Our portfolio company Dapper took the ropes off NBA Top Shot this past week and it is now open to anyone who wants to play…
I’ve written a bunch about Exposure Alerting and its potential to limit the spread of Covid by alerting people when they ha…
My partner Rebecca wrote about our most recent education investment, Sora , on the USV blog today . We have been investing …
I have been saying no to podcast requests and will continue to do so. But when Julie Samuels asked me to be the first guest…
Our portfolio company Helium started shipping a new product called Tabs last week. Tabs competes with Tile and a bunch of …
Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan and funder of teaching kids to code. I believe helping young people learn to …
Our current investing thesis at USV is about expanding access to knowledge, wellness, and capital. We believe that these ar…
I am in the middle of a week of back to back to back to back all day meetings. Which means I am not responsive on email, whi…
I saw that the SEC and the OCC issued guidance on fiat backed stablecoins yesterday . Better late than never. Because fiat …
The Gotham Gal and I spent a good part of saturday walking around NYC. At one point, we walked through the massive and amazi…
I backed this project today to make large scale public art projects honoring frontline workers . Frontline w…
I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences that the…
My friend and former colleague Charlie O’Donnell created a new kind of networking event for the moment we are in. These are…
We have been back in NYC for about a week after being away for the entire pandemic. We were in LA when the pandemic hit and …
The author Cory Doctorow is out with his third book in the Little Brother series. called Attack Surface, and is crowdfunding…
I’ve written about the power of having a really great setup for doing long video meetings. I call it my “zoom room” because…
I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio compan…
Something that bugs me about our tax code in the US is that we tax labor more than capital. If you make $100,000 of …
The comic book community on Kickstarter is so great. This projec t that I backed today is a great example of the creativity …
As many of you know, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are all the rage on wall street right now. SPACs are publ…