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Yesterday, the Republican leaders in the Senate brought a bill to the Senate floor called the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, otherwise known as the Clarity Act. This is the culmination of many years of work by the crypto industry and elected officials

I've been playing around with agent harnesses since OpenClaw dropped at the start of the year. I've been particularly interested in agents who have money and can transact for me. So I've been doing the classic Chris Dixon weekend hobby thing and hacking a

A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and wrote this post about all of that before departing to do a startup. And we paused our longstanding analyst progra

Our portfolio company Flipcash shipped a product last month that does something pretty interesting. It takes a little bit from three well-understood crypto concepts and combines them into something new. Like memecoins, anyone can create a new crypto asset

Our portfolio company Tasklet is a platform for making agents that do things for you. USV uses it to create agents that automate a lot of work for us. This post, which I mentioned last week, explains how USV uses Tasklet.Recently, Tasklet launched a featu

1/ USV recruited Spencer Yen about six months ago to help us with USV's "AI Transformation." I wrote this blog post when we launched the search that led us to Spencer.In about six months, Spencer with the help of my colleagues Nick and Nikhil have complet

QSBS stands for Qualified Small Business Stock. At a high level, QSBS means founder's stock and stock bought early in a company's life.Since 1993, the Federal Tax Code has had benefits for buying, owning, and selling QSBS. Currently, there is a full Feder

One of my favorite days of the year is the NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair. The idea behind the CS Fair is pretty simple: Put students together with companies, universities, and organizations that care about technology and opportunity and let the co

Michael Dempsey has a great framing for the secret sauce in the founder/VC relationship. He calls it "vibe alignment" in this excellent and far-reaching post about where we are in the startup/VC world right now.It is certainly possible and probably quite

I remember back in 2006 or 2007 when I switched from Outlook email to Gmail. During my Outlook years, I would folder most of my emails and delete the rest so that if I wanted to find an email, I could go look in the folder for it.When I started using Gmai