Category: startups
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Why Wildcat (2022) is this year’s most surprising founder story
With Melis balking at both Avatar & Babylon’s 3-hour plus run times, we walked an off-beaten path for our traditional Christmas theater movie to Wildcat, which at its surface is a “save the wild animals” documentary with cats. Easy feel-good cute fluff for cat parents! Light spoilers ahead. The R-rating should’ve been a tell. Instead,…
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“The Herd is On the Move”
Maybe because I’m going back on the warpath that I’m noticing an interesting trend among my Valley peers that have been “in the game” since the 2010s: we’re building again. This part is choked with anecdotes, but hear me out. COVID has “reset” our social and cultural patterns, which in turn affects what kind of…
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The Money House
Worcester, Massachusetts I accepted the offer for my first internship, despite not knowing who I was or what I wanted to do. “Students are offered the ability to create income, acquire awesome real-world experience running a business and managing expenses, and learn community values that promote integrity and responsibility.” They trained us to go door…
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Treasure Island
San Francisco, California Doing food deliveries was stressful, mundane work. A complete blur of faraway houses over many hills, downtown corporate offices with zero parking, day after day, rain or shine. You’d get some surprises like a celebrity or the occasional late-night strip club catering event. Everybody’s gotta eat. But there’s one delivery that always…
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A Thoroughbred Startup Desk
Editor’s note: Originally published February 26, 2015. San Francisco, CA “Finished, Solid Beech 6 Ft Work Table — $110.” We struck on $95 because I had to drive across the bridge into the city. He texted an address off of 4th & Brannan St. It was one of those office suites that got terrific, daytime sunlight. The…
Abel Lin 