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.  Who doesn’t love a great cup of coffee? When I saw Trevor Corlett’s Madcap Coffee tasting events happening here at WeWork, I had to reach out to learn more. A […]

Bianca Jade says her parents sometimes struggle to tell people what she does for a living. “My mom sometimes tells people: ‘My daughter has a blog,’” Jade says, laughing. “I tell her that it might have been true eight years ago, but now it’s not.” The fashion, fitness, and wellness expert says she’s had to […]

Working late into the night at the same nonprofit organization, Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi soon became close friends, making happy hour plans and confiding in each other about matters that others might find delicate or overly personal—from credit scores, to how to ask for a raise, to the struggle with “how to not suppress […]

Doctors told Daniel Gabbay that he was lucky to be alive. Biking home one morning, the WeWork Soho member was hit by a garbage truck and dragged for 20 feet, causing such extensive injuries that he almost died. Gabbay was determined to live his life as normally as possible, which included moving into WeLive. He says […]

If you’ve ever been asked to sign a contract filled with page after page of the most incomprehensible legalese, then you’ll appreciate the work of Seth Redniss. The attorney, a member at WeWork Soho, is the creator of Level. Instead of starting from complex long-form documents, Level’s software makes sure that people considering working together […]

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 […]

Justin Kifer is traveling almost the entire length of Italy, but he’s doing it the hard way. Kifer is starting off with hiking from the base of the Matterhorn into Northern Italy, then he’s setting off by bike for 1,300 miles to the country’s southernmost tip. After swimming across the Strait of Messina, there’s another […]

A quartet of sleek bags—two backpacks, a tote, and a sling—just propelled a camera accessories company called Peak Design onto the list of most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history. On its last day, the campaign pushed past the $6.5 million mark, knocking former record holders like the Bring Back Mystery Science Theater 3000 campaign out of the […]