The Slow Hunch

Investing, 2018.

USV, startups, theses, portfolio announcements4 posts

  • Oct 1, 2018
    The adjacent possible

    Dani and I have been spending a bunch of time recently thinking about the relationship between applications and infrastructure.  It’s a little bit of a chicken and egg situation.  You need infrastructure to build apps, but often times you don’t really know what kind of infrastructure is needed until...

  • Oct 1, 2018usv.com
    The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase

    Dani and I wrote this post together. Continue reading

  • Mar 22, 2018
    Zombies eating kitties

    On Tuesday we announced our investment in Cryptokitties, and, as you might expect, received a combination of enthusiasm and skepticism in response.  Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies already sound ridiculous to most people, and virtual “real” kittens made out of cryptocurrency take it a step further. But...

  • Mar 6, 2018
    Running the USV analyst application process using Ziggeo, FormAssembly and Airtable

    We are in the middle of our 2018 Analyst hiring process at USV.  For the last several hiring cycles, USV has had an open process where anyone can apply.  I actually wrote about it back in 2011, right before I joined, remarking at the high quality of applicants that the process produced. That is stil...