What Will Happen In 2025
I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus on just one thing. And sometimes I just make a bunch of predictions. I am going to do the latter approach today because I feel like it and it's so much fun. 1/ Apple and Google will leverage their existing market power to surpass OpenAI/ChatGPT in consumer AI prompts by the end of 2025. 2/ Waymo w...
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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.

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.
What Will Happen In 2025
I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus on just one thing. And sometimes I just make a bunch of predictions. I am going to do the latter approach today because I feel like it and it's so much fun. 1/ Apple and Google will leverage their existing market power to surpass OpenAI/ChatGPT in consumer AI prompts by the end of 2025. 2/ Waymo w...
Startup Mortality Rates
A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups a...
What Will Happen In 2024
As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this ti...
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Hi Casters. This is 75mins long but I promise you that it is worth the time if you are into startups, tech, venture capital, crypto, AI, and stuff like that. https://avc.xyz/usvs-slow-hunch
This was so good, i sent to a bunch of people last week
I messaged Nick after watching it twice, this is an instant Hall of Fame artifact - very grateful you guys did this and shared it
can't wait for yours in twenty years
half way through, thanks for sharing
just now getting watch this. @fredwilson.eth based on your comment about how Twitter as a protocol had the potential to be as big as Ethereum. is that your rough mental model for Farcaster then?
The time is here for crypto Delicious 🤓 is anybody building that?
Thanks Fred!
Wow didn’t know USV had a podcast! Do you guys feel like you’re getting value out of it?
It's not a USV podcast. It's a @nickgrossman.eth podcast. Kind of like AVC and USV.
He just needs a TLA like NGV (Nick Grossman’s Videos)
Farcasters are already caught up thanks to @luc https://warpcast.com/luc/0x7e32d706
Yeah. Casters are quick to get to the good stuff
great episode. thanks for all the wisdom!
Absolutley loved listening to this. Thanks for posting ❤️