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Sep 25, 2018

There is a lot of chatter on Tech Twitter and elsewhere about the Instagram founders leaving Facebook six years after selling their company to Facebook. All I can say about that situation is they gave Facebook way more of their ...

Sep 24, 2018

I’ve been interviewed many times and while interviews are OK, what I enjoy a lot more are public conversations between two people. Listening to two people talking as friends and peers is more enlightening to me. My friend Chris Dixon ...

Sep 23, 2018

Fifteen years ago, I sat down in front of a website called Typepad and wrote this post. I ended that short post (six brief paragraphs) with this: I read blogs a lot. And I think they are great. So I ...

Sep 22, 2018

This is a short clip from a longer conversation that Ben Horowitz did at Disrupt a few weeks ago. In this clip, Ben describes crypto as a new kind of computing platform that is worse in every way (right ...

Sep 20, 2018

A few weeks ago, I wrote that I was getting more interested in a Chromebook. And I got a ton of great feedback from all of you. Thank you for that. I purchased a Pixelbook and have been using [...] (https://avc.com/2018/09/pixelbook-reactions/)

Sep 19, 2018

Henry Ward, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Carta, wrote a post yesterday outlining the gender inequity on cap tables throughout the startup landscape. It is a good post and I would recommend you click through ...

Sep 18, 2018

This post is jam-packed with conflicts. It is about not one, but two, of USV’s portfolio companies. The more the better in my view. Our portfolio company Cloudflare announced yesterday that they have launched an IPFS Gateway. IPFS is ...

Sep 17, 2018

The Gotham Gal and I listened to the recent Howard Stern interview of Paul McCartney yesterday on a drive from Long Island to NYC. It’s a great interview, about 1 1/2 hours long, with incredible stories and lots of music. [...] (https://avc.com/2018/09/creative-prompts/)

Sep 16, 2018

The New York Times has a piece up on Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s best marathon runner. I read it with interest yesterday as I like to think of startups as marathons and I am always on the lookout for [...] (https://avc.com/2018/09/marathon-man/)