Cannabis Banking Startups Want to Make It Easy to Buy Weed
Physical safety is also a concern that fintech startups are trying to address. The more banks that go online and enter the space, the safer the...
Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?
PTO Genius, another startup launched in 2020, nudges employees that its algorithm guesses are at risk for burnout—based on factors like long hours and behavior changes—to...
One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we might make a...
Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful ‘Mafia’ Gets a New Boss
The power of Y Combinator has always been its network. The legendary Silicon Valley startup accelerator is known for smelting mere ideas into some of the...
Get Used to Startups Trying to Reinvent Housing
In 2016, the WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann described home as “a feeling” rather than something you own. He was introducing WeLive, his company’s concept for rental...
Raising Startup Funding Used to Be Easy—Not Anymore
In 2021, when Roshan Patel was raising his startup Walnut’s first round of funding, his email inbox overflowed with interest from investors. Venture capitalists loved his...
Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy
To compete with well-funded private platforms, active government and municipal intervention is vital for platform cooperatives. This could be through procurement policies that give platform cooperatives...
The End of Klarna’s Easy Money Is Bad News for BNPL
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the cofounder and CEO of Klarna, looks slightly frayed down the barrel of his webcam as he explains over Google Meet why everything is...
Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
I had come to watch Kelly film a haul. She skipped off to the living room to dance around—a warm-up—then led me upstairs to the carpeted...
Don’t Call Tony Fadell an Asshole—He Prefers ‘Mission Driven’
That touches on another distinction you make, between what you call a “caring CEO” and a micromanager. Where do you draw the line? You micromanage on...