As a young child, Grace Choi created all kinds of garments for her Power Rangers figurines, like pants, dresses, and a “crazy number of skirts.” “You know how children mimic their parents?” she asks. “My parents ran a dry cleaners, so I kind of mimicked them.” And it wasn’t just her Power Rangers. My Little […]

Living and working in Africa changed Jasper Middendorp’s perspective. He saw how waste collectors lived, scraping by on meager wages. “They got 15 cents for collecting 120 plastic bottles,” says the WeWork Metropool member. As he thought about what he could do to help waste collectors, an idea came to mind. Why not use technology to […]

Filmmaker Sarah Gerber has followed one of the “Lost Boys” displaced during the Sudanese Civil War, as he returned to his village to build a school. She has also documented a woman whose coffee business totally transformed her mountain community in Honduras. The beauty lies not just in these incredible individuals’ stories, but also in […]

Crystal Wahpepah is a chef and caterer who specializes in delicious Native American cuisine. Our WeWork Transbay members in San Francisco can’t get enough of her food, and looks like they’re not the only ones—Wahpepah was featured on the May 10 episode of Chopped, “Tortellini Trials.” Below, we discuss her signature dishes, the Bay Area […]

Chris Turney’s interest in entrepreneurship was as sudden as it was intense. Six years ago in Bangalore, India, Turney was interning at IBM. One day, his boss tasked him with running the day-to-day affairs of the multinational corporation’s foreign operations. “The director was running around, and I was managing problems across 200 accounts working with […]

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 […]