Back in 1991, Nadine Cino says she “got everything I deserved” when she hired a budget moving company. “They held our freight hostage,” recalls the fashion consultant and globetrotter. “They wouldn’t release it unless we paid them several thousands of dollars because we used more cardboard boxes than we had estimated.” More than losing her […]

Gil Galanos is a natural leader. He’s led troops in the Israeli army, building camaraderie among the ranks. Five years ago he co-founded a nonprofit that empowers rising leaders to build a bridge between the Israeli and American communities. Working alongside Rafi Musher, founder and chairperson of Israel & Co, Galanos works to bring graduate students […]

David H. Kim remembers wrestling with whether he was cut out to be a minister. He had just taken a salary cut in order to lead a Christian fellowship at Princeton University. “I tried to counsel a student and realized I wasn’t helping, but making things worse,” says the 43-year-old entrepreneur. “It was this existential […]

Italian-born Matteo Console Camprini didn’t pursue architecture in the traditional sense. “If you’re doing traditional architecture, you envision something today,” says the 48-year-old entrepreneur. “If you’re lucky, you’ll see it in five years.” Instead, his passion in life was designing imaginative, innovative event spaces that come to life in a matter of weeks or months. […]

When Edward Daciuk launched his first startup, a software company called Periscope, he and his business partner were a little surprised at how much two newcomers were able to accomplish. “We convinced KPMG to give us a check for $200,000 to get their software off the ground,” says Daciuk. “We were 25 or 26. We […]

Entrepreneur TJ Loeffler was doing some soul searching. After three years of working on Wall Street, he realized he wasn’t interested in climbing the corporate ladder. Finance just wasn’t his passion, he decided. It was faith. “My faith has been private, but it became more a part of who I was on the outside as […]

When she started a career in publishing in the late 1970s, New Yorker Nancy A. Shenker found it hard not to be envious of friends who were investment bankers. They were living in luxurious apartments while she was trudging up the steps of a walk-up infested with roaches and mice. So she answered an ad […]

Every day is special for entrepreneur Jane Hoffman, founder of the public relations and marketing firm All Things Possible. It’s not just her work, although when you talk with her it’s clear she is enthusiastic about what she does for a living. Last year, after being diagnosed with hepatitis C, she decided that treatment was […]

For more than 20 years, Jan Mercer Dahms held top-level positions at organizations like Teach for America, the Girl Scouts, and Planned Parenthood. But the 47-year-old entrepreneur left all that three years ago to strike out on her own. She wouldn’t go on to start one business—she is running two of them at the same […]

Growing up in the “small farming town” of Red Hook, New York, Bob Fox enjoyed going on hikes with his dog. Fox says he was “fascinated by nature,” always wondering how things worked and why they looked the way they did. His curiosity eventually led to a career as a globally renowned architect and one […]

Coming from a small town in South Dakota “where the only fashionable thing was overalls,” Julie Hutton’s big break in fashion came when she moved to New York and landed her first job as a graphic designer at Macy’s. She was fired the same day, but she didn’t give up. “A guy I knew said, […]

When Chris Remus studied electrical engineering in college, he thought his only option was working for a large corporation for the rest of his life. But he wanted something different. “The desire to be my own boss was revolting against the desire to just follow people and be thankful for my job,” says Remus. So […]

“Biking is built into my core,” says Chad Marra, a longtime cycling enthusiast who has three bikes of his own. When he describes them, each one seems like his favorite. “I have a fixed-gear daily driver, which is black and simple and fun,” says Marra, a member at WeWork Studio Square. “It keeps pedaling even […]

Sali Christeson and Eleanor Turner have been eyeing a specific space at WeWork SOMA for months. Just off the building’s newly renovated lobby, it isn’t your typical work environment. But they don’t intend it to be typical. Corporate showroom design Christeson and Turner, who together founded Argent, a San Francisco-based women’s workwear company, gave up […]

Although they ran in the same circle of friends, Lizzy Ellingson and Nevin Shetty didn’t become friends until a blackout doused the lights in Lower Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Over the next week, the future business partners started talking passionately about the world of wedding registries. “After the storm, he contacted me to […]