USV posted yesterday that we are looking to hire a builder who can lead our transformation into an AI-native venture capital firm. Here are the key paragraphs from that post:You’ll be the builder-i...

The Gotham Gal and I have completed another of our sustainable apartment buildings we make for families that live in Brooklyn. We call the building Frame122 and it is located at 122 Waverly Avenue,...

Back during COVID, the Gotham Gal and I, along with the team in our family office, debuted our "sustainable" apartment building development business in Brooklyn, called Frame Home. We had two small...

I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus...

I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of...

I have always been a big fan of breakfast, lunch and dinner business meetings. There is something about breaking bread over a meeting, or a glass of wine or beer or a cup of coffee. The ideal...

I have worked with many former lawyers in my career and my experience with them has always been fantastic. The first former lawyer I worked with was Milt Pappas who, along with his partner Bliss...

For many years, I took a multivitamin every morning and that was it. Then maybe five years ago, during my annual physical, my doctor told me I was "very vitamin B deficient." That led to a month or...

I have written a bit about our portfolio company Blackbird but in case you didn't read any of those posts, Blackbird is a loyalty and payment network for the hospitality sector. You earn Fly and you...

When I woke up on Friday, September 27th, the first thing I did was put on an out-of-office notification on my email. That felt so damn good. It meant that for the next twelve days, I was dialing...

When you think of founders who have been massively successful in bringing new and novel technologies and companies to market, you don't normally think of a nomad who has been living out of a single...

Code is a mobile app built onchain that allows anyone to send anyone else money anywhere in the world and it is entirely self custodial. Code uses the Kin token that came out of the Kik mobile...

A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups a...

A lot of folks who are new to the venture capital business and are building their own firms and funds will email or message me about rese...

I took the last two and a half weeks off from work and blogging (and a lot more) and attended the 2024 Paris Olympics with much of our fa...

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successf...

I wrote the email below to a founder doing his first board meeting. Board meetings can provide a leadership team with a perspective on the business t...

The number one thing I hear from people who want to write online more is that they struggle to publish incomplete ideas and unpolished compositions.W...

USV is and has always been a small venture capital firm. We have twenty employees and we like the casual comfortable vibe that creates for us and the...