Matt Mankins is a recent Mozilla Fellow, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur with degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of Miami. Mankins is currently studying the economics of creativity which builds on his work in industry. Previously Mankins served as the CTO of Fast Company and Director of Monetization for Condé Nast. He is co-founder of numerous companies, including Vert, SMTP.com, In-a-Moon and has recently started Lorem Labs to commercialize a new web reward system called Kudos. Mankins formerly owned the Lorem Ipsum Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has won several awards, including the Boston Phoenix's 2005 award for "Best Bookstore Trying to Save the World".