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Sep 11, 2016

Three years ago we went as a family to the 9/11 memorial which at the time was still surrounded by a fence. The museum had not yet opened. This year in June, when my mother was visiting from Germany, I [...] Read more

Sep 9, 2016

Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift [...] Read more

Sep 9, 2016

Today’s blog post is over at USV announcing our investment in Shippo. I have written previously about how the future of programming will consist of composing applications from different APIs. We already have quite a few building blocks in our [...] Read more

Sep 7, 2016

Understanding uncertainty, and even more so explaining it, is hard is because it requires a foundational framework — the reason that most explanations feel isolated is that they avoid this initial step. Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday post is my first cut [...] Read more

Sep 5, 2016

Today we are celebrating Labor Day, a day that was originally started by Labor Unions in the early 1880s. At the time it was not a public holiday but rather took the form of a walkout demonstration or general strike. [...] Read more

Aug 31, 2016

A while back I did a Tech Tuesday series which I thoroughly enjoyed writing. So I have decided to write a new series. This one will be on uncertainty. I was holding off on starting it as I have work [...] Read more

Aug 30, 2016

Yesterday a debate erupted on Twitter between VCs over whether term sheets should express a company’s valuation in pre-money or post-money terms and whether that even matters. This started with a blog post by Rob Go from Nextview on why [...] Read more

Aug 29, 2016

At the end of last week Facebook announced that it would stop having humans write summaries of trending news stories. This follows previous allegations that the selection of trending stories had been changed to remove conservative ones. This is a [...] Read more

Aug 25, 2016

Here is my talk from the wonderful GEL conference earlier this year covering some of the ideas from my draft book World After Capital Read more