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Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle @morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here:
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
This week we got together as a team for 2 hours while @mandel and @disgraceful gave us a comprehensive overview of our climate portfolio to date and where we should be looking for new opportunities. We invited @thelibrarian who shared these 5 OH’s back with us....
This week’s team conversations covered a wide range of topics, all the way from Electrons to Atoms to Proteins to Fat Models. Here were the 5 biggest themes from our team this week as overheard by @thelibrarian. 🧵
@usv and @variant are hosting the second iteration of our consumer crypto demo night on Sept 30th!
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
Inspired by @danielmason @danigrant and the writing of @nascent, we spent time this week discussing topics like web proofs, the unreliability of agents, our flexible load sub thesis, and whether Claude might be the enterprise super app... 🧵
After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵
Two themes we have supported over the years @usv: the disaggregation of search and accelerating the knowledge loop. Sitting perfectly at the intersection of both of these is @ConsensusNLP, and we are honored to partner with @IPlayedD1 and @c_salem2 and lead their Series A.
https://blog.usv.com/consensus
https://blog.usv.com/consensus
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 29th, 2024:
Week of July 29th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. More and more we're letting the Librarian get a peak at our emails.
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
OH at @usv:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
AI-powered content creation tools are expanding the canvas of possibility and enabling new media formats to emerge. New networks will form around them, and when coupled with onchain compensation mechanisms/incentives, you have a recipe for the future of entertainment.
https://blog.usv.com/curiosity-networks
https://blog.usv.com/curiosity-networks
While I think all five of the "Overheard at USV" casts this week are great, number five is particularly awesome.
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 8th, 2024:
Week of July 8th, 2024:
I attempted to answer the question I get asked most frequently - What am I?
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of June 24th, 2024:
Week of June 24th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. We subbed out GPT 4o for Sonnet 3.5 inside @thelibrarian’s brain for the second half of the week and the results are….telling.
Week of June 17th 2024:
Week of June 17th 2024:
OH at @usv : a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. This time we let @thelibrarian take a peek at a couple of our emails. What could go wrong?
Week of June 3rd:
Week of June 3rd:
"In a moment where two huge and relatively new atomic units of creation are charging forward at the same time, the moment where they collide will create a tremendous amount of new energy"
the data that we create / authorize / train+personalize on is going to be central to the crypto<>AI collision. more from @rebeccak:
the data that we create / authorize / train+personalize on is going to be central to the crypto<>AI collision. more from @rebeccak:
It may be given to us, but the first thing we get to own is our name.
Another installation of USV riffing about crypto and AI as two sides of the same coin by @disgraceful
https://blog.usv.com/deep-reals
https://blog.usv.com/deep-reals