The Sovereign Protocol War — Part 2Observations on Libra I’ve yet to hear much aboutJun 26, 20191Jun 26, 20191
Time to Dive Down the Rabbit HoleWhy I’ve decided to start another company.Jun 19, 20182Jun 19, 20182
The Sovereign Protocol WarHow Facebook, Telegram and startups… may defend us and support the open web insteadMar 6, 201810Mar 6, 201810
Published inLightspeed Venture PartnersKnowns vs Unknowns — Are you building a successful company or just typing?In a prior life as a CTO, when you asked one of the best engineers on my team if he could build something, his typical answer was “it’s…Oct 10, 20176Oct 10, 20176
Amazon’s Echo Show & why we may soon see hardware network effects at scaleLast October, I wrote a post about hardware network effects. In it, I outlined an example of a fictitious home security camera that became…May 9, 20173May 9, 20173
Published inLightspeed Venture PartnersSkate to where the voice is going…When I was a kid, my computer had a SoundBlaster card. If you were a geek like me, you remember editing your autoexec.bat file to include:Feb 14, 20172Feb 14, 20172
Halloween is a reminder that photo sharing apps are still brokenWe got together with friends and trick-or-treated around the neighborhood last night. This morning I awoke to see awesome photos of our two…Nov 1, 20162Nov 1, 20162
Thoughts on LivingSocial — From a Guy Who Was There Day 0What I learned is that your job as a founder isn’t to build a product. It’s to build an amazing group of people and a culture which…Oct 26, 20166Oct 26, 20166
Published inLightspeed Venture PartnersFacebook launches Ambient TV ExperienceOne of the challenges with live streaming content to date has been the waiting room phenomena. A publisher like LifeHacker, or Cheddar*…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016