**Dani Grant**  
*Nov 5, 2019*  
We are thrilled to be welcoming the Arweave team to the USV portfolio. Part of USV’s most recent investment thesis is about investing in companies that broaden access to knowledge and Arweave is doing exactly that by building a self-sustaining, [Read more](/content/writing/2019/11/arweave/index.html)

**Lauren Young**  
*Nov 1, 2019*  
Activity led by a Network Leader: Write 3 areas of interest around your face and draw lines to those who share a common interest At USV we believe in the power of network effects. This belief weaves heavily into our [Read more](/content/writing/2019/11/network-leaders-program/index.html)

**Fred Wilson**  
*Oct 29, 2019*  
Eighteen months ago, I had breakfast with John Heilemann and he told me that his world, political media, was challenged in the shift from linear television (ie cable news) to real-time mobile (ie Twitter). He saw an opportunity to address [Read more](/content/writing/2019/10/recount-media/index.html)

**Bethany Crystal**  
*Oct 23, 2019*  
For the past three years, we have conducted an annual survey where we ask our CEOs to share feedback about our performance in supporting them as partners and board members. While we hope that feedback can be a continual, iterative [Read more](/content/writing/2019/10/how-and-why-we-gather-feedback-from-our-ceos/index.html)

**Nick Grossman**  
*Oct 14, 2019*  
As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are publishing the first of what will become regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV's has made [Read more](/content/writing/2019/10/usv-algorand-transparency-statement-q4-2019/index.html)

**John Buttrick**  
*Sep 12, 2019*  
In 2006 my friends Mia and Andre (pseudonyms) bought their dream garden apartment in Harlem for $500K. They had rented in New York for a decade and bought the apartment expecting to make it their home indefinitely. They initially financed [Read more](/content/writing/2019/09/patch-homes-a-modern-finance-company/index.html)