The quote ‘condensing fact from the vapor of nuance’ comes from one of my favorite books of all time, Snowcrash. The line is spoken by Juanita, a hacker/forensic anthropologist.

I work at Charles River Ventures in our Menlo Park office, where I focus on early stage consumer technology and infrastructure software of all types.  I am actively involved in our investments in Areae, Conduit Labs, Handipoints, iControl, Optaros, Social Media, and Twitter.  I have an official bio. 

I welcome your emails at swu@crv.com.  You can also follow me on Twitter, where I spend an inordinate amount of time. 

When I’m not hanging out online, I love snowboarding (preferably at Mammoth,) spending time outdoors (ideally far from civilization,) reading (Haruki Murakami, Ted Chiang & Donald Barthelme are my favorites,) and watching movies (Thin Red Line and Voices of a Distant Star are the only movies I’ve watched more than 2 times.  Terrence Malick, if you’re out there, we should hang out =).

Here are 5 things you probably don’t know about me.