USV in 140 characters: invest in large networks of engaged users, differentiated by user experience, and defensible though network effects
- Crypto may be the only free market solution to the market failure that is the FANG data monopolies economist.com/special-report…
- Cloudflare has not only been quietly powering much of the Internet, it has been quietly building one of the strongest and deepest teams out there
- Net Neutrality is not just about the freedom to innovate, it is ultimate about the freedom to choose your own sources of information. Startups understand this intuitively
- Could crypto-tokens be the future of open protocols? We think so. So does Juan Benet and @protocollabs
- Personalization is something you do for someone, targeting is something you do to someone - why doesn't the industry that spins for a living come up with a better word
- President Obama's asking the @FCC to keep the internet open and free. Share his plan → wh.gov/net-neutrality #NetNeutrality
- Immigration fuels diversity. Diversity fuels innovation. Innovation fuels growth. Keep the doors to NY Tech open. technyc.org/TrumpEO
- NY State is about to pass a law that effectively bans AirBnB in apartment buildings - huge step backward.
- Albert takes on climate, crypto, education, and the secret to a happy marriage in this podcast.
- DeFi aspires to make financial services available to everyone. Zerion aspires to make it easy for us mere mortals docs.google.com/document/d/1oC…
- I used to think that Web3 infrastructure would be decentralized compute, storage, and communication. Physical infrastructure will be needed but if we don't get identity and incentives right - it wont matter. Danny from 3Box lays out the identity challenge here...Identity has been an elusive challenge in Web3. We wrote Demystifying Digital Identity to make the often-confusing topic clearer and more practical: what is ID, what to beware of, what to insist on, & what simple steps to take for your app or service medium.com/p/6ec413b129ac
- I'd rather have a larger number of smaller players than try to make a dominant player accountable
- Will small protocols loosely joined be the more elegant, adaptive, and more easily governed architecture of a decentralized future?Replying to @cburniske
