It started with almond milk. Tamara Lim was making her own, having found out that most on the market only contain two fragments of the nut. Wouldn’t it be cool, she thought, if someone created a brand with more elements? It would be more expensive, but costs could be offset…

Struggling millennials are likely to be interested in almost any financial service that promises to bring a shopping cart total closer to zero dollars. Accordingly, the BNPL (buy now, pay later) setup has seen a huge resurgence in the U.S. Unlike older models of “hire purchase” (a system by which…

If you dream of starting a company and wonder what it’s like running the day-to-day of a business, you’ve come to the right place. In our series Startup Diaries, we ask new founders to take us to work for a day and reflect on what they discovered during the process. …

On March 16, Denver, Colorado announced all eateries must switch to serving only take-out and delivery amid the coronavirus outbreak, following a domino-effect of similar policies enacted across the country. “It was like watching the entire restaurant industry just collapse in a single minute,” says Erika Thomas, chef-owner of High…

As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the world, Vara*, a disabled, immunocompromised grocery worker in New York City, was forced to make a sickening decision: to keep their minimum wage job and be at high risk for contracting COVID-19, or safeguard their health and lose their income. “My health had…

Hand sanitizer and face masks are sold out. Italy has closed its borders, and so too has the United States, as the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases across the nation soar into the thousands. As the coronavirus spreads, so too does fear over catching the disease. But underlying this viral…

Several summers ago, I spent nearly three weeks in the backcountry of the Sierra Nevada Mountains with my husband. Our days were strenuously monotonous: breaking down camp in the morning, hiking up and over mountains all day, and falling asleep in pure exhaustion at night. …

Remember high school cliques? The jocks wore letterman jackets; the goths wore fishnets; the nerds wore chinos; the skaters wore beanies. We assumed we could tell a lot about a person based simply on their clothes (the jocks were charismatic, goths were unbothered, nerds were clever, and skaters were rebellious)…

Senior Associate Gabby Cazeau on putting her engineering background to use at Harlem Capital, a diversity-oriented fund whose team is comprised of over 90% people of color. — Venture capital undoubtedly has a diversity problem. You could more accurately call it a diversity disaster. As of 2018, just one percent of VCs were Latinx, and three percent were black. …