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Dec 18, 2018

With the news of Google and Amazon’s huge expansions into NYC, many people are asking “how did NYC tech get to this place?” Well, I am going to post a 25 minute video history lesson at the end of this Read more

Dec 17, 2018

Our portfolio company SoundCloud just launched a pretty cool thing. If you are a DJ and use one of the popular DJ software products, you can plug SoundCloud into it and make your mixes right from the cloud. Here’s Read more

Dec 16, 2018

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Dec 12, 2018

My Chromebook journey has led me to the Pixel Slate. As I wrote here a few months ago, I have wanted to move to a Chromebook for a while and I finally decided to do it. I started with Read more

Dec 11, 2018

When capital markets change direction, to the upside or to the downside, they often go too far before finding the right balance. When they overshoot to the downside, you can find some real values. Back in the financial crisis of Read more

Dec 10, 2018

I saw this tweetstorm by Jack Dorsey on Saturday evening and thought "Good, Jack is taking care of himself." For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar 🇲🇲. We Read more

Dec 9, 2018

In the last week, we have learned that Uber, Lyft, and Slack plan 2019 IPOs. I am sure that a few more highly valued private companies are also planning to go public in 2019. It is something that I have Read more

Dec 8, 2018

Our friend and USV Limited Partner Beezer Clarkson hosted a panel at the recent Slush Conference in Helsinki talking about the shifting landscape for startup funding. My partner Rebecca participated on the panel along with several others. It’s a roughly Read more

Dec 6, 2018

I think Google Photos is awesome. It is one of my favorite Google products. The photo search is amazing. And the sync from my Pixel phone to Photos works beautifully. But there is one thing that bugs me about Google Read more