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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. TreeHouse is also a video company. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs. Americans watch 5.3

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Getting to Know Maker Studios

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A year ago I invested, along with Dana Settle at Greycroft Partners , in a startup company called Maker Studios. Our talent includes writers, directors, actors, singers, post-production professionals, costume designers, lighting professionals, sound mixers, show runners and so on. More on this soon.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

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Carson Four Rivers Center, where they discussed ways in which culture and creativity shape a city’s identity. During the meeting, delegates also had the chance to share and display arts and crafts from their native cities at an event called “Pride of Place,” hosted by the Paducah School of Art and Design.

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