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Jun 27, 2018

The best companies I work with have a heartbeat, they operate on a pace and a cadence and a rhythm that is perceptible to everyone in and around the company. I am not talking about just product and engineering, although you Read more

Jun 26, 2018

I guess this is the week I am going to compliment our competitors in the VC business. That meme started yesterday in my post on Benchmark and will continue today. Yesterday afternoon my friend Chris Dixon announced a new VC Read more

Jun 25, 2018

I saw this chart in Recode’s piece on Benchmark : if("undefined"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper["aV5nW"]={},window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].embedDeltas={"100":664,"200":600,"300":550,"400":550,"500":550,"700":525,"800":525,"900":525,"1000":525},window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].iframe=document.getElementById("datawrapper-chart-aV5nW"),window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].iframe.offsetWidth/100),100))]+"px",window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if("undefined"!=typeof a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var b in a.data["datawrapper-height"])if("aV5nW"==b)window.datawrapper["aV5nW"].iframe.style.height=a.data["datawrapper-height"][b]+"px"}); It’s an interesting chart because it breaks out new investments and follow-on investments, both of which have been falling at Benchmark for going on Read more

Jun 24, 2018

There is a bill in front of the NYC City Council called Intro 981 that will impose reporting requirements on Airbnb and their hosts in NYC. There will be a public debate on that bill this coming week. The backdrop Read more

Jun 23, 2018

Last month, at the Consensus 2018 Conference, Paul Vigna of the WSJ, Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, and I had a 30min discussion of all things crypto. Here is a video of that discussion: USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Marz Read more

Jun 21, 2018

I saw this tweetstorm today from Suhail Doshi, founder of Mixpanel. 1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? Read more

Jun 20, 2018

Today is our thirty-first wedding anniversary. We got married on a hot steamy June night in the Washington DC area. During the official part of the event, the skies opened up and it poured. After that, the heat and humidity Read more

Jun 20, 2018

At USV, we have been active in the blockchain/crypto sector since 2011. At this time, we have direct investments in nine companies/projects in the crypto space and one exited investment. Companies in the blockchain/crypto sector make up about 15% of Read more