AUTHORS

Scott Kupor is a prominent American venture capitalist, investor, lawyer, and entrepreneur. As of now, he works at Andreessen Horowitz based in Menlo Park, California as a general partner. Scott was the first employee of the firm having joined back in June 2009.

Andrew Chen is a prominent Taiwanese-born American venture capitalist and author. As of now, he has served as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz since joining back in May 2018. Furthermore, Andrew is the author of The Cold Start Problem.

Jacob Helberg ( Full Name: Jacob Samuel Helberg) is a prominent political philanthropist, national security author, and previous technology policy advisor. As of now, he has works as a commissioner for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission since joining in February 2023.

David Paterson (Full Name: David Alexander Paterson) is a popular American politician and attorney who worked as the 55th governor of New York, replacing Eliot Spitzer and working out nearly three years of Spitzer’s term from March 2008 until December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, David became the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state and became the first African-American governor of New York. He is now the author of Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity a book he published in late 2020.

Sophia Chang is a popular Canadian-Korean music director, producer, manager, TV producer, and author. Widely known as the first Asian woman in hip hop, Sophia managed A Tribe Called Quest, Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, and members of Wu-Tang Clan such as RZA, GZA, as well as Ol’ Dirty Bastard. She produced Project Runway All Stars (season 1). Sophia’s memoir, The Baddest Bitch in the Room, received the Wavy 2021 Best Book Award. As of 2023, Sophia is developing many projects, such as a scripted series based on her memoir.

Ligaya Mishan is a popular British-American writer for The New York Times Magazine and a writer at large for T magazine. She has written for the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, as well as her work, has been chosen for the Best American anthologies in Magazine, Food and Travel Writing. She began working for The New Yorker as a copy editor and wrote hundreds of unsigned short book reviews.

Deborah Feldman is a popular American-born German writer residing in Berlin whose 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, features the story of her escape from an ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, New York, and became the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.

Shulem Deen is a famous American author, essayist, former Skver Hasid, and critic of Hasidic Judaism. He has a memoir that he authored All Who Go Do Not Return in 2015. Deen is the founding editor of Unpious, a journal for voices critical of Hasidic lifestyle and beliefs. In addition, he is a regular columnist at The Forward.