Back when she was in the catering business, Amélie Morency convinced a “random dude” to rent her his kitchen. It didn’t end well. “After five months, he kicked me out,” says the Montreal resident. “The whole cohabitation thing wasn’t working out at all.” All of this got her thinking: What if people in the food […]

As a creative strategist at WP Engine, Doctor Popular is used to making videos and cartoons. But he’s also eager to showcase his fashion sense. “I want to design a classic combo around a hoodie and dress shirt,” says the WeWork Transbay member. “It’s a bug I’ve had in my brain for a long time. […]

When Hagit Oz saw a video on kite surfing, she didn’t just want to try the sport. She was intent on competing globally. “Every day, I went to the beach to train,” Oz says. “Then I started looking for someone to fund my journey to do a world tour. I wanted to become a world […]

When you ask Olenka Polak why she launched her new app, she’ll tell you that she just wanted to watch movies with her parents. Polak’s parents are immigrants from Poland, and English-language films and television shows baffled them. But then they saw the Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water in their native Polish. That changed […]

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.When WeWork members Pooja Desai-Singh and Sourav Dey created Glifft, the idea was to make gift-giving effortless and more fun for everyone. I talked to the first-time founders and friends about […]

“What are you gonna do after college?” asked the executive director of the nonprofit where Kaneisha Grayson was volunteering the summer before her senior year. The black studies major mentioned her one-year scholarship in Africa, but after that? Her future was wide open. That’s when Grayson was told she had a “keen business sense” and should […]

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. When WeWork Custom House member Cathy Kellon shared a video on the Member Network about “healthy watersheds for people and nature,” I couldn’t wait to pick her brain. Kellon is the […]

When Michelle Thaler left her job as an intellectual property attorney in the corporate world to become a stay-at-home mom, her entrepreneurial spirit craved a side project. Her passion in life? Finding creative ways to get kids to enjoy eating vegetables. “So many kids hate vegetables,” says Thaler, founder of the Brooklyn Heights-based company Food […]