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Few things are perfect, though this scene from Freaks and Geeks surely was
http://t.co/7xFx7CCZL9
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Always trust a VP who wears Chuck Taylors
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Elton John, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1975
by Terry O'Neill
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Anyone else do that thing where they listen to one song over and over and over again - like dozens or >100 times - in the course of a day or two, almost in an attempt to fuse that song's DNA with your own, to try and find the singular truth represented therein?
Or is it just me?
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1/ My grandmother was wild when younger and in the early 30s drove a car around the USA with a girlfriend. She only hinted at this trip except to tell us at one point something happened with a cowboy.
This afternoon I found this letter in some old papers and I am freaking out
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This is remarkable:
"More people watched other people play videogames in 2017 than all NFL regular-season games combined"
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My grandparents
My grandfather, Nislene Hyman, grew up in Jerusalem (as did his family before him), where his father was continually arrested for promoting electrical devices
So the family eventually fled and headed to France but there was also nothing for them there so they
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Helped start up a company from scratch, first time in a while for me. This is obvs to many but new to me: these made that process infinitely faster, smoother & virtually painless and allowed us to focus on building product instead
We Work
Slack
Notion
Justworks
Brex
Substack
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He smiles at me, touches the mezuzah with his index and middle fingers together, touches his fingers to his lips, then touches them to his heart
Smiles again at me, says goodbye and walks away
I am left to eat my lunch, but feeling already full before starting. In a good way
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Just saw a man in a suit walk into the street with confidence and conviction, raise his arm and hail a NYC yellow cab. Like a poetic vision from the past.
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Had a nice and profound NYC moment just now.
I ordered some food from the local burger joint. When I opened the door and took the bag from the delivery guy, he says to me: "May I ask you a question?"
My New Yorker protective shell goes way up....but I say "Sure"
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My kid has an "interview" to be a Minecraft mod later this week. He's 12. The interviewer is also 12.
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Jay-Z on how constraints (in this case: a limited subject matter inside a set structure) force creativity
"When we take the most familiar subject in the history of rap - why I’m dope - and frame it within the sixteen-bar structure of a rap verse, synced to the specific rhythm
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Thinking about all the details in this photo
Sinatra on the Boardwalk, Miami, 1968
by Terry O’Neill
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"Read. Read as much as possible. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts – be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished"
Nick Cave
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@shaig
wonderful
my family too
My grandparents
My grandfather, Nislene Hyman, grew up in Jerusalem (as did his family before him), where his father was continually arrested for promoting electrical devices
So the family eventually fled and headed to France but there was also nothing for them there so they
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Ping An Good Doctor, AI-trained unstaffed clinics deployed in China right now
Provides online consultations for more than 2000 common diseases and contains 100 common meds
1000 of these may provide healthcare services to 3 million people
Incredible
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Happy 115th birthday to the NYC subway
472 stations in operation (most of any in the world)
245 miles of routes
24 hours/day service
Averages 5.6M rides daily during the week
All for $2.75 per ride
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9/end
Whatever happened, she kept his letter her whole life. It was in her papers when she passed away in the 1990s. I just found it today.
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Son, 13, watching Titanic for the first time: "This is a famous scene." Me: "How do you know?"
Him: "From the memes"
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There really is an unlimited amount of incredible music in the world
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Lots of talk of cities, here's the thing about some:
NYC - obvs incredible
SF - beautiful also incredible
Miami - fun & incredible
LA - definitely incredible/great weather
London - historical and incredible
Portland - weird and incredible
Austin - incredible plus Texas forever
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What great leadership. Celebrate not only those who stay with you, but also those who might choose to leave
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NFT sales 2020: $94.9M
NFT sales 2021: $24.9B
Wallets trading 2020: 545k
Wallets trading 2021: 28.6M
Putting aside for moment if you are lover or skeptic, a maximalist or hater, this is ridiculous growth
NFT sales hit $25 billion in 2021, data from market tracker DappRadar shows, but growth showed signs of slowing towards the end of the year
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Great conversation with Barry Diller, on how to build teams:
"If you hire people at senior positions, you are a failure . . . bring people into your organization who are young and who are inexperienced for the job"
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Sometimes the best advice is just really simple
From the book "Who Is Michael Ovitz"
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If I was asked to describe 3 things that in combination make USV a unique venture firm:
1/ small funds for 15+ yrs (last core fund $275M)
2/ "vehemently" generalist - everyone invests in every area of thesis
3/ completely collaborative investment decisions, made as a collective
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One of my favorite New Yorks is the spring time cap and gown subway rider New Yorks
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Was interviewing someone today and at the end I did the generic "do you have any questions for me?"
And she said: "If USV was a music lyric, which one would it be?"
Deciding that on the fly was both one of the most exciting and yet terrifying professional moments of my career
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Dats my little brother
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I miss that thing where you're at a show and the band plays *your* song and your friend pokes you, nudges you, gives you a hug, a wink ...... or just that look. That moment.
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Why TJ Maxx has been able to thrive without costly e-commerce investments:
Its stores create a "treasure hunt shopping experience"
(via
@Alex_Danco
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Born to Run was released 43 years ago today.
That fold-open cover photo (by Eric Meola) is still stunning to look at
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I used to write postcards to bands (pre-Internet) asking for their lyrics. I don't actually recall anyone ever sent them
But one time Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar gave me tickets to a show (on what was their last tour). When I picked them up, they also came with backstage passes
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"Sometimes good design is the act of not putting a hat on someone"
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They made up a fake 80s Scandinavian prog rock band, with a whole fake album and songs and reviews, and then pretended to cover that album live in concert.
Still can't get over that
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I feel like Warhol would appreciate this ...
"1000 MSCHF ARTWORKS FOR SALE: One original Andy Warhol (worth $20K) mixed at random into a stack of 999 exact MSCHF forgeries"
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What if the most interesting intellectual conversations on the Internet are actually not happening in private, in invite-only groups. But instead generally in public, just like always?
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"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be" - Rick Rubin
whoa
1/10/23
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What a beautiful buzz
76 years old. Just coming off heart surgery
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"You can run a profitable company — which we are — without using a surveillance business model" -
@yegg
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Who else listens to Cuomo every day? I crave that New York accent. As if he has transcended a normal role for me. Our governor, maybe, also our friend, doctor, pastor, rabbi, brother, sister, father & mother. Something entirely different. I don't know; I keep listening, every day
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I'm excited to introduce Meet Cute (
@listenmeetcute
) - a new company we're building that's got something to do with audio & a lot to do with hope. Please follow and sign up for our newsletter to stay tuned ;)
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"We are committed to our way of practicing venture capital. We will continue to invest with a thesis-driven approach, and we will continue to publish our views on our website. Our funds are small . . Our decision making is collaborative (we do not vote)"
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We got to witness this today. In person. No masks.All awesome. One down one to go.
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8/ But after that, who knows. No one left to ask either. My mind is racing.
This is a photo of my grandmother, Rebecca (Ritchie) Levine, I think from around that time.
What happened in Colorado? What happened to Cowboy? I will never know
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So aesthetically pleasing
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Good (new year's) advice, from Tolkien:
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill”
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Jack Kerouac reading a passage from On The Road New York, February 15, 1959, photo taken by Fred W. McDarrah
http://t.co/b2oLsRwenM
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"Los Angeles is, crucially, not really a 'place' - it is viewed by even its residents as simply a kind of loosey-goosey, intangible mirage. Because the city doesn’t really (literally or figuratively) have a true center, it’s kind of a thing that any kind of dream can be imposed
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venture is a long game
took 18 years for the first USV fund to be done
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Daughter's latest gag: order drink in Starbucks and give name as Prisoner 24601. When they call it out she shouts: My name is Jean Valjean!
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Wei's (
@eugenewei
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In other words, exactly what a blog post should be.
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Looking at both kids headed out, separately, to "parties"
"Where to?" we ask
"I dont know. Somewhere in the city. Somewhere in the East Village" they each answer
Watching my exact teenage years replay
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"I want the audience to say this is the best thing I've ever heard and not know why" - Rick Rubin
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Finally read my first Cormac McCarthy ever today - The Road
I don't think I took a breath that whole novel
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This set of principles from
@keithcalder
on how they decide to get involved producing a film project is a list I think I could apply to my job investing as well
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USV loves conversations - our first website was a blog (I think built on typepad) and it still basically is a blog today (runs on wordpress now)
So something new for 2024: usually the best way to develop our thinking is to get our ideas out to the public
Yet so much happens
OH at
@USV
: a new experiment where an AI records our conversations during the current week, synthesizes themes from them and shares them with the world
Week of Apr 22:
1/ Organismic approaches to carbon sequestration - synthetic biology platforms to design microorganisms that
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6/ But it doesn't end. On the back he wrote her a poem:
I am going to the boss
And call for my money
And I goin to New York
To see my honey
!!!!
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Elder wisdom, via Bob Dylan, talking about his grandmother
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"Give your product people a problem to solve, or a goal, and then the power to solve it. Don't tell them how"
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the thing about going to see live music that's cool is that any time you do holds the possibility of it being the greatest night of your life
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My dad and I, early 70s, when parenting meant convertibles, car seats right up front, and loose cigarettes
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As the market matures, we look for less obvious network effects,
infrastructure for the new economy, and enablers of open decentralized
data
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Jack White on creativity (and constraints):
"Whether we like it or not, write some songs and record them, force yourself into it"
"Deadlines and things make you creative"
"Opportunity kills creativity"
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For some reason, I think often about Leonard Nimoy's two memoirs
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Herb Kelleher, of Southwest Airlines, passes away.
"During Mr. Kelleher’s tenure, the company never had a layoff, furlough or pay cut, despite being among the most unionized airlines in the world"
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Was talking with someone about online education and realized the largest edtech company in the world is Youtube
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My kid did her first record cover art and I am out of my mind
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A different take on success, from Steve Albini:
"Success means that I get to do it again tomorrow"
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Number of Oscar nominations by studio, over time
(via Axios Media Trends )
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