You have probably walked past a Work Heights location without realizing it. There are seven of them across Brooklyn, in Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bed-Stuy, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Boerum Hill, and Williamsburg, all operating as storefronts embedded in their neighborhoods rather than office towers set apart from them. That is not accidental. It is the […]
Nobody saw it coming. That’s usually how it goes with the people who build something real — they’re never the ones the room was expecting. They don’t walk in carrying the right last name or the warm handshake of someone who vouched for them. They walk in early, when the room is still empty. They […]
OpenAI launched a personal finance feature, and it wants access to your bank balances, debts, and transactions. Before you connect your accounts, the team at PocketSmith, an independent personal finance platform, has four things worth thinking through first. PocketSmith isn’t anti-AI. The company recently launched its own secure way to connect AI tools to your […]
For decades, the nonprofit sector has treated independence as a virtue. The smaller, local and autonomous an organization remained, the closer it was believed to be to its mission. Ryan Dewey Smith has spent much of his career challenging that assumption. As the founder and chief executive of Inperium, a network of affiliated human services […]
AI coding agents can build a working app overnight. They can also quietly break what they’ve already built, and until now, no one has measured how often they do. TestSprite, the Seattle-based AI testing and verification platform, is dealing with both halves of that equation. It recently open-sourced the TestSprite CLI, a free tool that lets an AI […]
Until recently, buying fitness equipment for the home involved a fairly clear compromise. Commercial machines offered durability, stability, and the kind of workout experience people expected from a gym, but they were often too large, too expensive, and too impractical for residential spaces. Home equipment solved those problems by becoming lighter, smaller, and more affordable, […]
In the history of DJ culture, there are performers. There are producers. There are innovators. There are pioneers. Very rarely does one individual become all four. DJ Natural Nate belongs to that rare category. For more than three decades, DJ Natural Nate has built a legacy that stretches across underground electronic music, breakbeat culture, internet […]
The American moving industry generates over $86 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 122,000 people nationwide, yet the independent operators who form the backbone of that industry share a structural disadvantage that has persisted for more than a decade. Most acquire customers by purchasing leads from third-party aggregators that sell the same consumer […]
There was a time when mattress marketing was mostly about softness. A better bed was a plusher bed, a thicker bed, or a bed that borrowed the visual language of a luxury hotel room. That idea has not disappeared, but it no longer explains the way many people think about sleep. Now, sleep has become […]
Charitable giving is about more than writing a check. At its best, it reflects a commitment to strengthening communities, supporting those in need, and creating a lasting impact that extends beyond any one individual. For brothers Adam and Daniel Kaplan, philanthropy has become an important part of both their personal and professional lives. In this […]
