Privacy-preserving technologies are essential for the modern world. Much of human information is now stored and exchanged online, and vast swathes of that information are meant to be private. Encryption allows users to keep their data private from applications. Messaging apps like Signal encrypt messages so only the sender and receiver are able to read them. A third party like a company, ISP, or malicious actor can’t decrypt the encrypted content. This works well for most use cases, but often...

Privacy-preserving technologies are essential for the modern world. Much of human information is now stored and exchanged online, and vast swathes of that information are meant to be private. Encryption allows users to keep their data private from applications. Messaging apps like Signal encrypt messages so only the sender and receiver are able to read them. A third party like a company, ISP, or malicious actor can’t decrypt the encrypted content. This works well for most use cases, but often...

The following is an excerpt from the book The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen. Copyright © 2021 by Andrew Chen. Published on Future/ a16z, with permission from Harper Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. A core pillar in the study of network effects is Metcalfe’s Law, where “the systemic value of compatibly communicating devices grows as a square of their number” (to cite one definition). Said plainly, each time a user joins an app with a ...

The following is an excerpt from the book The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen. Copyright © 2021 by Andrew Chen. Published on Future/ a16z, with permission from Harper Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. A core pillar in the study of network effects is Metcalfe’s Law, where “the systemic value of compatibly communicating devices grows as a square of their number” (to cite one definition). Said plainly, each time a user joins an app with a ...

What is Ubeswap?Ubeswap is a mobile-first Decentralized Exchange protocol for the Celo Network. Ubeswap wants to power Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Celo by providing liquidity across all assets. Celo is a mobile-first blockchain protocol that makes DeFi tools and services accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.

What is Ubeswap?Ubeswap is a mobile-first Decentralized Exchange protocol for the Celo Network. Ubeswap wants to power Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Celo by providing liquidity across all assets. Celo is a mobile-first blockchain protocol that makes DeFi tools and services accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.

FacebookLinkedInTwitterPrimary care, a critical component of our healthcare system, got slammed over the last 20 months. Even before the pandemic, it was on its heels in the face of a fee-for-service reimbursement system biased towards technically complex specialty care and increasing financial pressure from new competition like urgent care and telemedicine clinics. COVID-19 further exacerbated the pain by nearly wiping out visit volumes for routine, non-emergency services, and creating major...

FacebookLinkedInTwitterPrimary care, a critical component of our healthcare system, got slammed over the last 20 months. Even before the pandemic, it was on its heels in the face of a fee-for-service reimbursement system biased towards technically complex specialty care and increasing financial pressure from new competition like urgent care and telemedicine clinics. COVID-19 further exacerbated the pain by nearly wiping out visit volumes for routine, non-emergency services, and creating major...

Your entire health is directly related to your ability to maintain a nutritious diet. Before you can begin to lose weight, you must first be in shape and maintain a nutritious diet. Your eating habits have a significant influence on your weight loss or weight gain, according to study. In order to get the benefits of your workouts, you must supplement them with the necessary minerals and vitamins that your body requires. The inclusion of meals that will not have an influence on your weight los...

Your entire health is directly related to your ability to maintain a nutritious diet. Before you can begin to lose weight, you must first be in shape and maintain a nutritious diet. Your eating habits have a significant influence on your weight loss or weight gain, according to study. In order to get the benefits of your workouts, you must supplement them with the necessary minerals and vitamins that your body requires. The inclusion of meals that will not have an influence on your weight los...

Twitter“Equal means everybody gets the same. Equity means everybody gets what they need…These are issues of the 21st century that are now on our collective watch. And the question is, what are we going to do about it?” – Bernard Tyson, former CEO and Chairman of Kaiser PermanenteBernard Tyson was a close friend of our firm, in particular of my partner Ben Horowitz, and the ideals that he brought to his leadership role in healthcare continue to pulse through the fabric of the a16z bio/healthca...

Twitter“Equal means everybody gets the same. Equity means everybody gets what they need…These are issues of the 21st century that are now on our collective watch. And the question is, what are we going to do about it?” – Bernard Tyson, former CEO and Chairman of Kaiser PermanenteBernard Tyson was a close friend of our firm, in particular of my partner Ben Horowitz, and the ideals that he brought to his leadership role in healthcare continue to pulse through the fabric of the a16z bio/healthca...

With the rise of the cloud, we are witnessing a major transformation in how software is developed and maintained. As a developer, microservice architecture is quite appealing. It enables us to decouple singular monolithic software into a smaller set of services, making it possible for small teams of developers to rapidly iterate and release new features faster. However, from a systems perspective, the tradeoff for velocity has been operational complexity. We have shifted from local complexity...

With the rise of the cloud, we are witnessing a major transformation in how software is developed and maintained. As a developer, microservice architecture is quite appealing. It enables us to decouple singular monolithic software into a smaller set of services, making it possible for small teams of developers to rapidly iterate and release new features faster. However, from a systems perspective, the tradeoff for velocity has been operational complexity. We have shifted from local complexity...