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Aug 27, 2018

The back and forth that Elon Musk did over the last few weeks about being public begs the question about whether the challenges of operating a public company outweigh the benefits. Elon wrote this in a letter to Tesla’s employees Read more

Aug 26, 2018

I was born at and spent a fair bit of my childhood at the United States Military Academy where my father taught engineering. It’s a magnificent and beautiful place, full of history and meaning. The motto of the academy, enshrined Read more

Aug 25, 2018

Silvio Micali is the founder of USV portfolio company Algorand, which is building a foundational blockchain of the same name. In this video, Silvio explains what is different and important about Algorand. Read more

Aug 23, 2018

My friend Ro Gupta co-founded and runs a company called Carmera which makes real-time HD maps for the autonomous driving market. They do this by operating “an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network” (ie Google StreetView) which captures real-time Read more

Aug 22, 2018

Apple and Google's duopoly on mobile operating systems give those two companies incredible power in the market and one of the most obvious places to see that power is the 30% tax they take on transactions that happen in their Read more

Aug 21, 2018

I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlantic Hawks game, initially disclosed in this Read more

Aug 20, 2018

I am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a Read more

Aug 19, 2018

Getting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as smart home controllers. The Read more

Aug 18, 2018

We had torrential rains last night and around 3am, I woke up and realized that I had left the soft top open on our Jeep Wrangler. The lighting was coming down hot and heavy so I waited it out and Read more