The Alternative Answer - The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best Performing Portfolios

Acknowledgments

Hollis Heimbouch is the publisher you pray for: someone with the vision to identify a coming trend, and the courage to commit to it before everyone else catches on and makes it comfortable. But that’s just the start, for her intelligence, humor, and powerful encouragement contributed very directly to the end result. The book world is lucky to have found her before the venture capital world did, and I’m incredibly grateful that she deemed this little start-up worthy of her energies.

It was exhilarating to work with her.

Indeed, you can be envious of the super team she’s assembled at HarperCollins, since they have that pleasure every day. But Katie O’Callaghan’s refrain after our first meeting, “I’m all about timber,” signaled that ...