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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Butter Thesis
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we u...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanYou Never Know When You've Had a Good Day
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...
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More and more, recently, I’ve been noticing web services that use Dropbox for storing user data. For example,1Password, OneName and Diaro. With all the talk about user control of data, data liberation, privacy, etc — I actually feel like this is is a super nice approach, at least for some use cases. I am more comfortable using Diaro as my journal because they don’t keep the data, I do (sort of — really Dropbox does, but it’s my dropbox acct and I can take it/delete it whenever I want). I think that may have actually been my deciding factor in choosing Diaro. In this particular case, using Dropbox has the added (I’d say necessary) feature of syncing across devices so any apps that store user data there can see it anywhere and not have to worry about managing it. It’s also interesting to note that this wasn’t really the #1 use case (afaik) for Dropbox. But it does seem to be a natural (albeit relatively fringe) additional use case. And I wonder if we will see an increasing number of apps (maybe health?) take this route, and marketing it to privacy/control conscious users.
More and more, recently, I’ve been noticing web services that use Dropbox for storing user data. For example,1Password, OneName and Diaro. With all the talk about user control of data, data liberation, privacy, etc — I actually feel like this is is a super nice approach, at least for some use cases. I am more comfortable using Diaro as my journal because they don’t keep the data, I do (sort of — really Dropbox does, but it’s my dropbox acct and I can take it/delete it whenever I want). I think that may have actually been my deciding factor in choosing Diaro. In this particular case, using Dropbox has the added (I’d say necessary) feature of syncing across devices so any apps that store user data there can see it anywhere and not have to worry about managing it. It’s also interesting to note that this wasn’t really the #1 use case (afaik) for Dropbox. But it does seem to be a natural (albeit relatively fringe) additional use case. And I wonder if we will see an increasing number of apps (maybe health?) take this route, and marketing it to privacy/control conscious users.
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