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Twitter is too important to be owned and controlled by a single person. The opposite should be happening. Twitter should be decentralized as a protocol that powers an ecosystem of communication products and services.
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My son and I just did some math. If the NCAA paid 20% of it's annual NCAA Tournament broadcast revenues pro-rata to every D1 college basketball player on a team roster, each player would make something like $40k a year.
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"It’s not a fair fight, but it is one, oddly, that the small guy can compete. It might seem ludicrous – DuckDuckGo has 78 employees and Google 114,096 – but often the outcome is the same. For the majority of your searches David, it turns out, is just as good as Goliath."
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Last night was Twitter at its finest. Anyone who says it is past its prime, irrelevant, and failing is out of their mind.
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So many CEOs tell me that this is a game changer for them and their companies
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In 5-10 years when we look back and consider why the next big tech sector centered itself in Asia and not in the US, it will be the SEC's unwillingness to create new rules to regulate new assets that will be the cause
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Hi
@Twitter
: Can you remove all the restrictions you recently put on
@matthewjmandel
. He's a new analyst at
@USV
and he wants to use Twitter as part of his job. (cc
@elonmusk
)
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1/ It is a bit ironic that GDPR, a regulation to protect our privacy, has resulted in the greatest deluge of spam into my inbox that i can recall
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When people ask me what they should read to understand crypto, I always suggest they start where it all started with the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper which is ten years old today
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I am so pleased that
@jack
and the Twitter team are looking into this. Having been there when "we took a different path for reasons that were reasonable at the time", I have long wished that Twitter had been built after Bitcoin not before it
twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard, like SMTP (email protocol). For a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly centralized Twitter. But a lot’s changed over the years…
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"We think digital collectibles, and all of the games they enable, will be one of the, if not the first, big consumer use cases for blockchain technologies."
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I just realized that I have not sent a tweet out to everyone who follows me in about a month. And yet I reply to tweets all the time. I have always preferred the conversational aspects of Twitter over the broadcast aspects.
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1/ you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like “I don’t know” “Maybe you’re right” and “I don’t understand"
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President
@realDonaldTrump
's goal with his executive orders on Friday is obvious and simple: Make America Hate Again
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Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!
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"A bad pitch is one where you do all the talking. A good one is where the investors are tripping over themselves to ask questions. So what does this imply? Keep your pitch geared towards being intriguing rather than trying to answer every question upfront."
Entire post below:
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I am very pleased that our portfolio company
@nurxapp
has launched an at home Covid 19 test. I hope this can help people who are sick and need to know what they have.
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"It is my hope that DefendCrypto will be an inspiration for the many other important crypto projects that are silently battling with the SEC to come public and raise capital from the crypto sector to fund these efforts."
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It is important on days like today to remember that change creates opportunity and opportunity can create wealth if approached correctly
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How Is it Possible That Satoshi Did Not Make The Short List?
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"2017 brought us many interesting things, but these three stories dominated the macro environment in tech this year. And they are related to each other in the sense that each is a reaction to power structures that are increasingly unsustainable."
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@AOC
I hope that the same group of dedicated NYers will work with our tech sector to find a consolation prize for LIC and the kids who are growing up in NYC, being taught STEM skills in our public schools, and want good jobs that excite them and give them a path to better lives.
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Snapchat's best feature is that it's UI is so difficult for anyone over the age of 25 to figure out
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"It’s very satisfying to me to know that in an era where billions are being made walking all over our privacy, a great business can be built protecting it."
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"we remain committed to our way of practicing venture capital ... Our funds are small. Our focus is thesis-driven. ... We publish our investment memos as blog posts. We are active partners to all the companies we invest in at all times. And our decision making is collaborative"
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What Is Going To Happen In 2017
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@jeffjarvis
@ariannahuff
you have to blog on your own domain. medium, facebook, linkedin, huffpo will do what are in their interests, not yours. i have been doing it every day for 15 years this year. feels great to own my archive, my brand, my content, myself.
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@adamludwin
one of the truths of successful startups. the thing you set out to make is not usually what you end up making.
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"We are in the middle of a fast-paced global, unregulated, hard-to-trace, multiparty crowdfunding game driven by both optimistic speculation and ebullient house money booked during an unprecedented bull market run."
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@karaswisher
I think everyone should take a step back and consider what is really going on here. i wrote this today about it
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"We now have 30,000 data scientists .... 100x more than any other hedge fund ... we are not yet two years old"
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Following yesterday's look back at the 2010s with a look forward at the 2020s
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Back when Twitter got started we tweeted via SMS. Then they built a web app and a mobile app and tweeting via SMS stopped being a thing. But you can still do it by texting to 40404. If you have your SIM swapped, anyone can Tweet as you.
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Ten questions. A few predictions. A lot of unknowns. That is how I am going into 2018.
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Happy Earth Day Everyone. These are solar panels we are having installed on the roof of our home. I can't think of a better present for planet Earth than investing in clean energy.
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I have fantastic news.
@patrickc
is grabbing the torch from us and keeping the ACLU match offer marathon going. Take it from here Patrick.
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@jerrybrito
@RonWyden
Senator Wyden has been a champion of the crypto developers and ecosystem throughout these negotiations and we all thank him for that.
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@andrewrsorkin
The epidemic is with "progressive" politicians who are actually anti progress. We should called them regressives. The losers here are the next generation who just lost a lot of good job opportunities.
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"there is one thing that continues to grow and outpace our peers: Twitter’s influence and impact.". Yup. Long TWTR.
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Just put the Twitter app on my AppleTV so I can watch Jets Bills tomorrow night on Twitter
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So the SEC's decision to force US crypto exchanges to delist assets is very damaging policy because it pushes all of the liquidity and trading volume to Asia and will result in the crypto sector following it there
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Web 3 is "not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle" .
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@alexiskold
They adopt it in college and even more so when they join the work force. I've seen it again and again with my kids and their friends. I've heard people predict the death of email for twenty years and it just gets stronger and stronger.
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11/ Twitter is that person who is hard to get to know but once you get past their hard exterior turn out to be the best friend you ever had
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Watching the game on Twitter on AppleTV with Tweets on the right side of the screen is nice
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that quote is from Wired UK's excellent piece on USV's portfolio company DuckDuckGo
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I start every day with Twitter. there is no better way to figure out what is going on.
#LoveTwitter
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Some news on the USV blog today
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Internet treasures don't die so easily and
@SoundCloud
is one of the most treasured parts of the Internet
As I said
@SoundCloud
is here to stay. I'm very excited to announce that we're ready and strong for decade II.
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I am running a side by side comparison. Stay tuned for the results in a few weeks
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"it was hard to separate the Amazons and Googles from the Pets.coms and eToys." But as 99/00/01 taught us, that is what we must do.
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The President's Executive Order on Web3 is a landmark moment. Finally, we have the federal government focused on Web3 and organizing itself to engage constructively with the sector. This is long overdue:
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"we believe 2012-16 was a bubble in early-stage funding"
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sometimes i read a reported piece and i think "how did my words end up being reported in this way"? this is one of those times.
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The idea of turning Twitter into a protocol and allowing an entire ecosystem of applications to flourish on top of it is breathtaking in it's ambition and importance for all of the reasons
@jack
outlines in his tweetstorm this morning.
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@danprimack
I think the truth is somewhere in between. Ownership levels have been coming down in VC over the last thirty years. When I got into VC in the mid 80s it was very typical for a VC to want 25% of the company. Then it became 20%. Then 15%. Now we ask ourselves if we can get to 10%
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“After” has more than a million readers, Wattpad says.
http://t.co/s1XUxBFNpF
[how many published books a year get to that level?]
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My vote for the next Knicks head coach is Becky Hammon who lit up The Garden as a player and who has been mentored by Pop for the last four years. The New Yorker has a great profile of her in the current issue
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The calendar is a great way to hold someone accountable for their words
President Trump’s weeks of downplaying the coronavirus have evolved into weeks of shifting the blame.
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After months of work with a great group of partners, I have relaunched AVC. It is the third iteration of the AVC blog. Details are in the blog post below.
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this is both awesome and scary
This was my Inbox this morning. 15 ICOs closing in 36h. As
@fredwilson
writes this morning, buyer beware.
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“Writing smaller checks allows us to stay true to our DNA, remain nimble and fulfill our commitment to supporting founders". It's a contrarian approach in this market but the "stay small" movement is my comfort zone too.
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"no one is in charge" that is a feature, not a bug, folks
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There is something quite magical about attending a live minting of generative art. The digital and physical realms coming together to create something unique and amazing.
So incredible to see my artwork in such a great space
#kraftwerkberlin
Props to
@brtmoments
for the awesome setup!
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I spent 3.33 Bitcoin Cash tokens this morning to buy the 13th issued Tyrese Haliburton rookie moment on NBA Top Shot. ? It will be interesting to see which is worth more in five years. Or ten years.
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@paulkrugman
it is good every single thing that author listed and many more. he makes a great case for its utility but just comes to the wrong conclusions, largely because of the immaturity of the infrastructure and dev tools right now. a lot like Internet pre the 2000 decade
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"If the United States was developing a digital dollar, then those millions of at-risk individuals would have been able to receive their economic stimulus funds via any one of the popular mobile apps that support or will soon support digital assets"
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We had unanimous support in our firm for this endorsement.
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Good News: Update On Stock Options/RSUs Issue
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"an unprecedented reaction". I hope we can sustain this response.
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Or better yet, were allowed to opt out of the school shoe contracts and negotiate their own?
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van Gogh: The Mulberry Tree (@ Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA)
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A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today. Tweet your ACLU receipts to
@bfeld
@abatchelor
@thegothamgal
or me
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"This Framework weighed heavily in our decision to geofence the trading of some assets from U.S. customers of Poloniex"
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"We're trying to build an ecosystem where you can earn kin in one application and spend it in another"
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Not On Facebook. Not On Instagram. Not On Snapchat.
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"These big trends are not that hard to spot...We’re in the middle of an obvious one right now: machine learning & artificial intelligence"
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The Highline btwn 23rd & 34th St is an object lesson in the vital role public spaces play in economic development
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Some thoughts on the SEC's Wells Notice to our portfolio company Uniswap Labs today
USV has been investing in the digital asset sector for over a decade. We believe that blockchain technology allows for the creation of open, transparent, and efficient marketplaces that deliver value to consumers and creators.
USV also believes that most digital assets are not
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An app store for Dapps across many competing platforms. That's how the decentralized web rolls
We’re excited to announce the first universal app store for decentralized apps -
Find apps on Ethereum, Blockstack, IPFS, Steem, EOS and more
If you’re a dapp developer, submit your decentralized app today
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Tech is an important part of the NY economy, but
@NYSA_Majority
&
@NYSenate
are ignoring that with a terrible anti-tech bill A8704C/S6340A
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"SoundCloud is not going away. Not in 50 days, not in 80 days, or in the foreseeable future. Your music is safe."
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"For all their brilliance, the inventors of ... the internet failed to include some key elements that would later prove critical to the future of online culture ... they did not create a secure open standard that established human identity on the network."
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something VC firms can do for their portfolio companies is to provide training programs that the smaller companies can't justify on their own
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"this amendment clarifies in law that validators of distributed ledger data, like miners, hardware wallet providers, & software developers, should not be required to report transaction data to the IRS. This is common sense, these are not the ones conducting transactions."
We need to pass the Wyden-Lummis-Toomey Amendment. If we fail now, it will have a real impact, not only on innovators today, but by threatening to cede tomorrow to a host of others on foreign shores.
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Hi Everyone. This Twitter account has been dormant, except when it got hacked last year, for the last eighteen months. I've been sharing my thoughts on tech, startups, VC, music, life, etc onchain at Farcaster. If you still want to hear from me on that stuff, come follow me there
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“Some people thought this was junk spectrum — but we can create an always available, bottom up, decentralized mesh network like this. If things go down, you can’t have Netflix, but you can say ‘hey, meet me here.’ ”
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A dream job: Stack is an internet treasure
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board.
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I just awoke to the news that The Merge was completed successfully a few hours ago. Congratulations and thanks to everyone in the ETH community for making this happen. Here's why this is so important
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This fantastic curated reading list (by
@teisenmann
) shows that blogs are a fantastic source of startup knowledge
http://t.co/oFEVFEKD
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