Hi Casters. About six months ago, we set out to make USV fully agentic. We recruited Spencer Yen to help us and he wrote this blog post explaining what we built and why. https://blog.usv.com/meet-the-agents
Hi Casters. Our portfolio company @xmtp is taking an approach to office space that I really like. Instead of being fully remote or entirely in one office they are opening a network of workspaces for themselves and their ecosystem of builders around the world. They tweeted about it today https://x.com/i/status/2018373875130864090
Hi Casters. I wrote about decentralized social today in the wake of two protocol handovers and an excellent post on this topic by @vitalik.eth https://avc.xyz/decentralized-social
Hi Casters. I ran an experiment over the holidays to see if USV could close an investment without legal representation. The anwer is a resounding yes and I wrote about it today https://avc.xyz/notebook-lawyer
Hi Casters. I published by 2026 predictions this morning. https://avc.xyz/what-will-happen-in-2026
Hi Everyone. I jotted down ten things that happened in 2025 that struck me as important.
Hi Casters. I've been enjoying the collecting game that the Farcaster team launched this week. Engaging on casts can be and should be more than a like, recast or reply. I have long believed that "mint is the new like" and also the path to monetization for consumer crypto. So I'm very enthusiastic about this experiment.
HI Casters. I posted the talk that @dwr and I did at Farcon to avc.xyz this morning https://avc.xyz/farcon-fireside
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The Farcaster community gets together every year in a community-produced event called Farcon. It took place the first few days of May this year in Brooklyn. Dan Romero, co-founder and CEO of Farcaster, asked me to do a fireside chat with him and while I'm trying to do less of this sort of things these days, that was an invitation I could not resist. Dan took me on a trip down career memory lane. The result is a powerful argument for protocols over platforms. See for yourself. It's just over t...
https://avc.xyz/farcon-fireside
Hi Casters. Here are my predictions for 2025. It's going to be a wild year. https://avc.xyz/what-will-happen-in-2025-1
If you are building a consumer Web3 app and plan to be in NYC on Sept 30th, considering demoing it at our 2nd consumer crypto demo night
Hi Casters. I love showcasing digital art on TV screens in my home and offices. I've been doing this for almost a decade now and it has gotten easier. With view.art, which launched to the world today, it has gotten wayyyy easier. I wrote about all of this on my blog today https://avc.xyz/viewart
Hi Casters. I am reminded that the addition of just one person into your feed can materially improve a social media product. For me that was following @mazmhussain here sometime in the last week. It's not the first time that has happened to me here at Farcaster and each time the experience has leveled up a lot.
Hi Casters. I love the idea of streaks. I used this mechanic to build a very large and loyal following of readers on the AVC blog. I posted there every day for something like seventeen years. That was a hell of a streak. The psychology of steaks is so powerful. So I'm taking advantage of the new streaks feature in Farcaster and starting a steak in the AVC channel
Hi Casters. I've published my second in a series of blog posts about moving my Internet presence onchain. This one is about Farcaster https://avc.xyz/ive-moved-onchain-continued
Hi Casters. My colleague @nik wrote about NFTs on the USV blog https://www.usv.com/writing/2024/01/nfts-have-evolved-nfts-endure/
