When Agnieszka Burnett escaped Communist Poland in the late 1980s, she had no idea that experience would inspire her life’s work. After all, she was only a baby. She describes her parents as “risk takers” who had “all these dreams they didn’t see to be feasible at that time”—dreams relating to better opportunities for their […]

When Shama Zehra was told she shouldn’t step into jobs that are usually held by men in her native Pakistan, she simply rolled up her sleeves. Living in one of the garment capitals of the world, resources were abundant for starting a clothing business. So at just 16 years old, she launched her first company […]

When Esther Vedder was growing up in the Netherlands, it wasn’t sports or television that dominated her after-school schedule. When she was eight she spent weekday evenings sorting out pearls and beads to make jewelry with her grandmother, mother, and identical twin sister Anne. “It’s a little family thing,” says Vedder, now 27 years old. […]

In this series, WeWork’s director of digital community selects a WeWork member to get to know better, sharing her fun findings with the rest of the community. Marketing and PR maven Sarah (Schleider) Goldberger, the founder of RUBEE, has a passion project inspired by her adorable dog. Named Lord Jameson, it’s a line of delicious, nourishing dog […]

The first two things you need to know about Kara Dolce: she’s a fighter, and she’s a cancer survivor. In 2008, Dolce was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. She was 26 at the time, living in New York City, working at a French PR company, and about to be promoted. She was also falling […]

As far as Adam Saraceno was concerned, he was just “helping out a buddy.” The buddy was Peter Dering, a San Francisco entrepreneur who had quit his job to start a camera accessories company called Peak Design. Saraceno needed a job, and Dering needed somebody to run a Kickstarter campaign for his company’s first product, […]

On their first day at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Jennifer Kessler and Chiara McPhee hit it off immediately. They even went out together to buy binders to organize all their classwork, an experience that taught them something important about each other. “We quickly found out that we were the only two people in the […]

In this series, WeWork’s director of digital community selects a WeWork member to get to know better, sharing her fun findings with the rest of the community. How much do you love delicious food showing up at your office? If you (like me) are a big fan, then you’ll want to learn all about the Los […]