“Don’t get so down on yourself for your bad outcomes and don’t pat yourself on the back so hard for the good ones.” – Annie duke

As the manager of Fidelity Investment’s Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, which averaged a 29.2% return during that time and grew from $18 million in assets to $14 billion under his management, Peter Lynch is considered one of the most successful stock market investors of all time.

Since raising our third early-stage fund in 2012, we have led or co-led 16 seed rounds, 31 Srs A rounds, and 8 Srs B rounds, for a total of 55 new USV portfolio companies over the last six years.

A leaked report from a Chinese government-backed think tank has warned of a potential “financial panic” in the world’s second-largest economy, a sign that some members of the nation’s policy elite are growing concerned as market turbulence and…

As the sharp gains in home prices continue, more markets are seeing values higher than their local economies can support.

The median price for a home in California has topped $600,000, a new record high and more than double the national median home price. The Bay Area is the most expensive region, with five counties recording a median price above $1 million.

Committed liberals and conservatives don’t realize how weird they are.

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Your answer says more about how our society operates than about yourself. Our culture worships loud people, but organizations and teams must embrace quiet people.

Biosphere 2 was an ambitious experiment in the Arizona desert to simulate a self-sustaining colony on Mars. In 1991, eight people shut themselves inside the airtight 3.14-acre habitat for two years. New photos show what the facility looks like today.

“The common practice we found among the highest-ranked performers in our study wasn’t at all what we expected. It wasn’t a better ability to organize or delegate. Instead, top performers mastered selectivity. Whenever they could, they carefully selected which priorities, tasks, meetings, customers, ideas or steps to undertake and which to let go. They then applied intense, targeted effort on those few priorities in order to excel. We found that just a few key work practices related to such selectivity accounted for two-thirds of the variation in performance among our subjects. Talent, effort and luck undoubtedly mattered as well, but not nearly as much…”

“Don’t get so down on yourself for your bad outcomes and don’t pat yourself on the back so hard for the good ones.” – Annie duke

Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?

My guest this week is Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of the book World After Capital.