A few weeks ago, I talked shop with DFJ managing director Josh Stein about everything from Bitcoin (he’s bearish on the digital currency) to which firms are doing the most “fringe” investing (Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Google). Naturally, one of the topics we covered was Stein’s very early investment in the online storage company Box. […]
Josh Stein
StrictlyVC: March 10, 2014
Good Monday morning, everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. —– Top News in the A.M. Yesterday, Google pledged to help developers create wearable devices, saying it will release an Android-based software development kit in the next two weeks. —– Josh Stein on the New DFJ DFJ has done what a lot of firms struggle to pull off; […]
Josh Stein on the New DFJ
DFJ as done what a lot of firms struggle to pull off; it has undergone a management shift without completely spooking LPs, who recently committed to give the firm $325 million for its newest fund. The transition was 18 months in the making, says Josh Stein, who joined DFJ a decade ago and who now, along with […]
A Bitcoin Bear in Silicon Valley, It’s True
Well, yesterday was crazy. Newsweek published a story saying it had finally found the elusive original creator behind the digital currency bitcoin. People on Reddit then went nuts, arguing that the world should leave the guy alone. On Twitter, journalists then weighed in on whether Newsweek had put his life at risk, before a gaggle of them in […]