Part of the USV investment thesis is “Access to Knowledge”.

To date, most of our investing in this area has primarily been around consumer learning platforms, like Duolingo, Quizlet, Codecademy, Outschool, Brilliant and others.  These platforms are generally focused on acquiring and internalizing new knowledge.

There is another pillar of the Access to Knowledge thesis which we’ve explored less, but which is equally important: making better sense of the information we already have.

We’re all swimming in oceans of information today, but turning that into useful, actionable, trustworthy knowledge is an elusive goal.

One very specific idea with this pillar is the goal of using technology to improve human memory.

For the right users these tools are magic, but I also think the active note-taking approach isn’t for everyone.

To date, probably my favorite example is the way google photo will prompt me to check out photos from this day 7 years ago, etc.

There would also seem to be some easy wins here, especially when you start to cross reference memory from multiple sources.

point is: while the high level concept seems to be sitting right there, the ideal product approach still seems to be TBD.

pooling them all together and indexing them does feel like a step up in a way that may make people uncomfortable, and at the very least would require thoughtful approaches to privacy and security.