Mark Suster

Kudos on the initiative. It's great to see awards going out to the rank-and-file employees of startups who do 95% of the work and seldom get the public credit they deserve.

The team at Wheel has been constantly iterating on collaborative video, a holy grail in social interactions. Watching the Arnold Schwarzenegger video made me laugh hysterically. I hope you'll enjoy it, too.

We are proud funders of Grove. The Ecosystem is their first product. It launched Tuesday morning on Kickstarter. The Grove Ecosystem is an intelligent, indoor garden that helps people grow fresh, flavorful, and nutritious food year round. The Ecosystem uses fish and plants to reliably grow delicious produce - including vegetables, herbs and small fruits - in a space the size of a bookshelf....

Thanks Ryan. I try to bring in people with unique perspectives. Shahidi is so passionate about solving problems that really matter (like building a product that is safe for teens because anti-bullying is built into the product). And he's the last guy you would suspect of being friends with Bieber, Mayweather, etc. but that's precisely why he's so effective.

Won the Pulitzer Prize. It is a novel that explores the growth of the modern American city and the American dream of working hard and getting ahead. It is a generational epic that then explores the growth in industrialization leading to globalization then offshoring and the gutting of the American urban center. He explores generational conflicts of the hard-working immigrant classes, the...

Another fascinating writer who covers the ground of why the West dominated the world since the Middle Ages. He picks up on theories of Jared Diamond and overlays political beliefs. Amongst his best analyses come with why countries who have fought often and compete fiercely have built more competitive societies and why those who naturally dominated the world or were set back by deep religious...