馬特?麥金尼斯

CEO，電子教科書服務公司Inkling

公司業務：針對iPad、iPhone和網絡的互動數字教科書。

最佳：我想說，過去一年是見證“無聊”公司誕生的一年。雖然我們身處泡沫之中，這是事實，但許多人正在解決一些雖然無聊、但卻非常有意義的問題。我們已經遠離了所謂的以消費者為特征的時代精神。圖片分享應用Snapchat很出色。消費者業務是可以建立的，包括那些雖然沒有太多價值，但估值卻高達數十億美元的東西。但我更關注Zenefits*公司，它致力于完善公司對健康福利的管理；我還關注在線教育公司Clever*，它致力于中小學教育中的一些無聊問題。他們現在與15,000家美國學校合作，這些學校的學生通過該公司的服務可以向老師反饋數據。這些雖然不是什么“令人振奮”的問題，但卻非常重要。

最差：我們看到了文化上的沖突，尤其是在舊金山。它造成了一種“我們與他們對立”的心態。這絕對是不公平的，它讓人們把注意力放到了錯的問題上，卻沒有幫助解決真正的問題。它演變成了階級斗爭，說實話，非常令人失望。我認為沖突的雙方都應該受到譴責。而人們向谷歌員工大巴投擲石塊和進行圍堵，無疑是火上澆油。對于舊金山年輕的科技雅皮士們和整個社區的隔離狀態，我一直感到非常遺憾。我在工作中會與團隊談論這個問題。我鼓勵人們參加當地選舉投票。

*麥金尼斯同時也是一位投資者。

Matt MacInnis

CEO, Inkling

The company's 411: Interactive digital textbooks for the iPad, iPhone, and web.

Best: I feel like the last year has seen the birth of the "boring" company ... Despite the fact we're in a bubble, people are actually biting off really meaningful, boring problems. We've gone away from this consumer-y zeitgeist bullshit. Snapchat is fine. Consumer businesses can be built, including ones that aren't worth anything but are billions of dollars in valuation. But I look at companies like Zenefits* that are trying to improve the benefits of how companies administer health benefits, and I look at companies like Clever* that are solving this really boring problem in K-12 schools. They're in 15,000 U.S. schools, where they've actually got students now capable of returning data back to a teacher. These are not "sexy" problems, but they're so important.

Worst: We have seen the culture war, particularly in San Francisco, shift into high gear where it's an "us vs. them" mentality. It's totally unfair, drawing attention to the wrong issues and not helping solve the real ones. It's class warfare and frankly, disappointing. I think both sides are culpable. But people who are throwing rocks at Google buses and that sort of thing are enflaming the situation. I have long lamented the disconnect between young tech yuppies in San Francisco and the rest of the community. I talk about it at work. I talk to my team about it. I encourage people to vote in local elections.

*MacInnis is an investor.