Nick Grossman
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Bio
Nick is a General Manager at Union Square Ventures, where he invests in new web & mobile platforms, works with USV portfolio companies, and leads USVâââ‰â¢s efforts on public policy and regulatory issues that impact open innovation the health of the web. Previously, he led an incubator for technology & media businesses at OpenPlans, which, among other things, pioneered the open311 web standard, founded the largest open source project in the public transit space, and built NYCâââ‰â¢s real-time bus data platform. Nick has present & past academic affiliations at the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard Law School and at the MIT Media Lab, and is on the advisory boards of the Data & Society Institute, the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Tumml urban ventures accelerator, Living Cities, and Code for America. He has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University and learned everything he knows about technology from people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two kids.