Matt

@mandel

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Over the past week or so I realized I have been thinking about LLMs incorrectly. I had considered them to be their own "things" that will let us do "stuff" Instead, LLMs are components of "things" that will "collectively" let us reimagine e stuff My colleague @mandel wrote about this last November (https://matthewmandel.com/2024/11/20/collaborative-intelligence/) but I didn't fully grok it until the other day (and then it lit my chaotic curiosity on fire)

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Hi Casters. I love "watering holes", the places that industry sectors congregate for meals and coffees and beers and more. A new one just opened in the ground floor of USV's office building in the Union Square neighborhood and I wrote about it today https://avc.xyz/leons

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"Crypto is too hard to use! That's why onchain applications haven't gone mainstream yet" said everyone ever. You know who doesn't complain about web3 being too hard to use? AI agents. And crypto rails have found product-market fit with AI agents. Another example of AI and crypto as two sides of the same coin. We have entered the age of "product-bot fit" for application developers, and the world is your agentic oyster. https://jared.xyz/product-bot-fit

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thought: venture capital is giving millions of dollars to relative strangers, for products that haven't really been built, in markets that barely yet exist it is the worst system of funding innovation, except all the others that have been tried

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Hi Casters. Do yourself a favor and find an hour this week to listen to this podcast conversation between the prolific writer Steven Johnson and my partner @nickgrossman.eth. They talk about Steven's journey to unlock “networked thought” through the use of tools, and the micro insights that gradually led him to NotebookLM, a tool that he is currently co-creating with the team at Google Labs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa9fNAdV5t4

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This month's recap covers exciting topics and updates from USV, including discussions on AI value capture, learning support systems, and climate investments for renewable energy. Key upcoming events include a rooftop party and panels on clean energy. Dive into more insights from @thelibrarian!

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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....

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If you are building a consumer Web3 app and plan to be in NYC on Sept 30th, considering demoing it at our 2nd consumer crypto demo night

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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:

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Hi Casters. A few weeks ago I wrote an email to a founder preparing for his first board meeting. I decided to share it with everyone and did that today https://avc.xyz/board-meeting-suggestions

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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. Week of June 10th, 2024:

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Alongside @variant, we're hosting a consumer crypto demo night with a focus on onchain social on June 13th evening! Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings. If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs

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Incredibly excited to support @farcaster on its path towards helping rewrite the social stack in a more open and interoperable fashion: https://blog.usv.com/farcaster

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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. Week of May 6th, 2024:

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OH at @usv: week 2 of 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 29:

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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:

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At @usv we invest pretty broadly across software, computing, finance, many verticals including climate & energy. One area we're looking at now is programmable energy -- more on the subject below from my colleague @mandel: https://www.usv.com/writing/2023/12/making-energy-programmable/

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