USV posted yesterday that we are looking to hire a builder who can lead our transformation into an AI-native venture capital firm.

Here are the key paragraphs from that post:

You’ll be the builder-in-chief: prototyping tools that help us source founders earlier, synthesize markets faster, and operate more intelligently. You’ll stand at the edge of what’s possible with language models, embeddings, and retrieval systems—and bring it back to Earth in the form of working tools that matter.

This role isn’t about writing research memos or consulting decks. It’s about building. You’ll be hands on, writing code. You’ll ship things. You’ll experiment constantly, and you’ll shape the future of USV from the inside.

If you are a builder who wants to operate at the intersection of technology and startups or know someone who is, go here for more information on this opportunity.

The Farcaster community gets together every year in a community-produced event called Farcon. It took place the first few days of May this year in Brooklyn. Dan Romero, co-founder and CEO of Farcaster, asked me to do a fireside chat with him and while I'm trying to do less of this sort of things these days, that was an invitation I could not resist.

Dan took me on a trip down career memory lane. The result is a powerful argument for protocols over platforms.

See for yourself. It's just over thirty minutes and there are quite a few highlights in here.

Although I avoid doing podcasts like the plague, I did participate in one recently along with my partner Brad who co-founded USV with me back in 2003.

Our partner Nick has a podcast called The Slow Hunch. The title was inspired by our friend Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From.

Nick asked Brad and me to sit in his apartment, drink tea, and talk about USV and the Slow Hunch that brought us together to make USV and point it in the right direction 20+ years ago.

While much of this conversation is about the past, we also talk a lot about AI, crypto, and where things are headed now in the second half of the podcast.

It is 75mins long so you will need your own pot of tea or long drive or hike to get through it.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it.