Startups with the best Venture Investment Returns of All TimeThis year, we saw the New York Stocks Exchange welcome Snap Inc., and the relaunch of SpaceX Falcon 9/Heavy, and maybe, the first Hyperloop trip coming soon in near future. But if you are looking to see some of the most successful startups than you must look into these most amazing investors with significant returns. If their fortune cost millions before, now they are worth billions. Here are our list of startups with some of the best investments of all time from least returns to the most returns. ELON MUSK’S BILLION-DOLLAR CRUSADE TO STOP THE A.I. APOCALYPSEElon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley’s latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field and its proponents, and to save humanity from machine-learning overlords. [ Vanity Fair ] Report: Airbnb Explored Building Backyard Guest HomesAirbnb has big expansion plans—and some innovative ideas to enact them. According to a new report in The Information, Airbnb designers have experimented with ways to manufacture "small homes for people's backyards." Such guest homes could be ideal rental opportunities on Airbnb, providing more supply of listings for the home sharing marketplace and an additional revenue stream for homeowners. [ Forbes ] Scaling Users, Products, and Growth Teams with Casey WintersWe talk about growth all the time in the context of startups. How they grow, how they attract users, how they engage users. In this episode of Greymatter, two of the top minds in growth, Greylock Partner Josh Elman and Greylock Growth Advisor Casey Winters, talk about scaling Grubhub and Pinterest, starting growth teams, how to think about SEO, and optimizing user onboarding. The podcast is packed with full-stack growth marketing strategies and tactics Casey has implemented in his career, and these lessons are widely applicable to any consumer startup scaling up. [ Greylock Partners ] Benedict Evans of a16z |