## What a wonderful project 
I backed it today.

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### Jan 24, 2020

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## 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

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### Jan 23, 2020

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## 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.

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### Jan 22, 2020

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## 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

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### Jan 21, 2020

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## 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

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### Jan 20, 2020

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## I love this project and backed it instantly  
when a friend showed it to me last week.

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### Jan 17, 2020

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## 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,

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### Jan 16, 2020

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## 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

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### Jan 15, 2020

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## 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

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### Jan 14, 2020

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