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What a wonderful project

I backed it today.

Jan 24, 2020

Tech:NYC is NYC’s tech industry advocacy group.

According to its 2019 Annual Report, Tech:NYC has over 800 member companies representing all shapes and sizes of tech companies in NYC. I am the co-chair of Tech:NYC. Today, the NYSE decided

Jan 23, 2020

Our portfolio company Stack Overflow

(which I like to call Stack) is an Internet Treasure. My friend Mark Pincus introduced me to the concept of an Internet Treasure many years ago and I am a fan of the notion.

Jan 22, 2020

A friend asked me over the weekend

“why do VCs ask for a management rights letter when they make an investment?” A management rights letter is a short agreement between a company and an investor to allow them certain management

Jan 21, 2020

I read this post on Bloomberg

about a theme this week at Davos (never been) about the 2020s being a “Peak Decade”: Peak Globalization (tighter borders in the coming years) Peak Capitalism (the emergence of “stakeholder capitalism”) Peak Inequality (the

Jan 20, 2020

I love this project and backed it instantly

when a friend showed it to me last week.

Jan 17, 2020

My partner Albert wrote a bit about how USV is investing in the climate/sustainability sector today.

The high-level summary is “not very differently than we have and are investing in other sectors”. At USV, we like certain business models,

Jan 16, 2020

Yesterday evening, the Gotham Gal and I went to see Jerry Colonna do a reading from his recent book, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.

As we were standing around chatting waiting for Jerry to go

Jan 15, 2020

Most of you read AVC via email.

Today, all of you will see a refresh of the look and feel of the daily email to match the refresh we did to the website last week.
I want to thank Phil