Want to remember that summer trip all throughout the year? That’s what the folks at Nomaterra have in mind. WeWork member Agnieszka Burnett has designed a whole line of fragrances inspired by her travels, and none of them evokes endless sun and sandy beaches like her Cape Cod Wild Beach Rose scent. You’ll immediately recognize […]

Evan Davidoff has been working for human rights for half his life. “It’s always been a passion of mine. I’ve been involved in LGBTQ advocacy since high school,” says Davidoff, now 30 years old. Now, he’s the founder of a nonprofit called the Global Partnership for Emerging Leaders, designed to empower the next generation of […]

Throughout his twenties, Byron Sorrells was terrible with money. “My parents were great with their money,” says Sorrells. “Not me. I figured out a lot the hard way.” A few years ago, when he was working as a senior software engineer at Twitter, he realized that many of his colleagues were in the same boat. […]

For 23 years, nuclear researcher Mike Hanson worked behind fences crowned with razor wire. He was searched every time he entered or left his office at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, always under the watchful eye of guards brandishing AR-15 rifles. His new place of employment, he says, couldn’t be more different. Stepping out of […]

Business partners Kristian Bouw and Mike Keung didn’t really mind that they were sharing a cramped one-bedroom apartment. But the fact that they were using the bunk bed that Bouw had slept in as a child—that stung a little. “Needless to say, we never invited people over,” Bouw says, laughing. When they were hungry, they […]

A comment from a “random dude” changed John McDonald’s life. A custom cabinetmaker, McDonald was exhibiting his work at a design show in Los Angeles. A photographer who liked his work mentioned that he should consider making doors for Ikea products. McDonald kicked around the idea for six months or a year, eventually launching his […]

“My wife and I are foodies,” says Ryan Mattison, founder of the dining app Nomwell. “And by that, I mean all the good connotations about that term. Dining out and enjoying good food is a big hobby of ours.” As they traveled to other cities, Mattison and his wife kept a list of restaurants that […]

It was a make-or-break moment for Daniel Steinberg. He was having his first face-to-face meeting with a potential co-founder at his startup called BuyBack Corps. And he was also pitching the company to potential investors. What made it such a challenge? These two events were happening at the same time. “I have no idea whether […]

It was a cold, rainy morning when Erik Douds and James Sanchez set out on a training run for their upcoming marathon. They started at WeWork Studio Square in Queens, ran over to Triborough Bridge and headed south to Grand Central, Bryant Park, Times Square, and other WeWork locations in Midtown Manhattan. After skirting along […]

The founders of Turtle can tell you the exact day their company was founded: December 11, 2014. That’s when the three forward-thinking students at the University of California’s prestigious Berkeley campus—Mohamed El Sewedy, Almustafa Elhillo, and Ehab El Maghraby—were sitting around on a couch cramming for finals. “We started thinking to ourselves that studying together is […]

“I always had an itch to work for myself,” says 25-year-old entrepreneur Miriam Brafman. “It’s one of these things I’d always imagined I’d do. I was always noticing opportunities that other people might not notice.” That’s how Brafman got the idea for her quickly growing startup called Packlane. One day, she was looking for a […]

If there’s one thing that never seems to change, it’s the waste disposal business. It’s pretty much the way it’s always been: you have something you don’t want, you call a company, and a truck comes to haul it away. A little more than a year ago, Greg Lettieri, Adam Pasquale, and the team at […]

The idea behind Welzoo is so simple that you wish you had thought of it first. Everyone wants to help out their favorite nonprofit organization, right? But most of us are too busy to volunteer or don’t have enough extra cash to make a donation. That’s where Welzoo comes in. The website makes a donation […]

Jason Ryder’s first introduction to WeWork was purely by chance. About a year ago, he was an employee of a Chicago-based money management company that needed to find office space. “I totally fell in love with what WeWork was doing,” Ryder says. “The atmosphere was quite a change for me, coming from a 10-person firm […]

It was Scott Dunn’s fifth networking event in two weeks. After waiting for an hour just to get in the door, he discovered that he was just one of hundreds of entrepreneurs competing for the time of prospective investors. “It was pretty much a waste of time,” he remembers about the November event. “There was […]

Remember that time you went to a basketball game, but what you thought would be great seats were behind a pillar? The folks at Rukkus are doing something about that. The digital ticketing marketplace’s newest feature, called Seat360, uses virtual reality to let you check out the view from inside 100 of the largest venues […]