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 […]

To Urška Sršen, being an artist isn’t any different from being an entrepreneur. Whether she was making sculptures back in college, or designing technology for women like she is currently, “It’s very intensive, it’s personal, it’s all based on your ideas, and you’re trying to make them happen,” she says. “There’s a lot of creativity […]

If you polled people about what city makes the best pizza, London would not be their first answer. Not by a long shot. But Luca Magnani wants you to rethink that. He and his partner are bringing Roman street-style pizza to the most bustling startup scene in Europe. Pizza Rossa, founded in 2014, made a […]