Matt Cynamon | Union Square Ventures

Jul 31, 2025

The purpose of our annual portfolio summit is simple: give 100 CEOs from around the world the space to connect and learn from each other. This year, we tried something new. We pulled 16 of them aside, paired them up, Read more

Dec 21, 2023

This post was co-written with Tom Dils and Calder Zwerling. A version of the post also appears on the Variant website Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive web3 compensation survey of our portfolio companies. Our goals were Read more

Aug 13, 2020

Back in May we published a post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing above 1,000 for the first time since April, we thought we’d give a quick update on where things stand. Read more

May 20, 2020

As the longer term impacts of COVID-19 continue to reveal themselves, one area we’ve been paying close attention to is the jobs market. In our portfolio, some companies have newfound tailwinds and are accelerating hiring. Others are cutting back either Read more

Jan 24, 2020

Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 Read more

Jan 27, 2019

Back in October I read a blog post penned by my now colleague Bethany Crystal about the launch of the USV Talent Network. At the time, I was consulting the French government on how they could attract more American growth Read more