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Lisa Martinez and the Business of Beginning Small
She began with an Etsy shop that barely sold, then built a studio, a nonprofit, and a storytelling ministry. Lisa Martinez has made a career from the stubborn idea that small work can carry serious weight.
Casey Neistat Still Wants to Make the Thing
He built a career by treating the city as a set, the deadline as an editing tool and the audience as a collaborator. Now the platform he helped define feels unfamiliar, so Casey Neistat is returning to his oldest advantage: making unmistakably human work.
Matthew Glick Put the Athletic Department in the Publisher’s Chair
A high-school highlight app became a communications toolkit for athletic departments. Matthew Glick’s useful insight was that small sports programs did not lack stories - they lacked the time and tools to publish them well.
Andrew Laffoon Is Teaching AI to Respect the Family Album
For twenty years, Mixbook's co-founder has worked on the same deceptively difficult problem: turning a camera roll into something people will keep. His latest answer uses AI, but the product test remains stubbornly human.
Ankarino Lara
Ankarino Lara is a product-minded entrepreneur who co-founded Thismoment, a San Francisco enterprise content-marketing platform that helped global brands collect, curate and publish user-generated content across social channels. A Harvard-trained archaeologist who once conserved Maya artifacts at the Peabody Museum, Lara moved from museums to the early consumer web, building products at CNET and Yahoo! before launching Thismoment in 2008 around the idea that the basic unit of human experience is the 'Moment.'
Niles Lichtenstein
Niles Lichtenstein is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nestment, a San Francisco-based platform helping first-time homebuyers purchase property through co-buying and expert coaching. Shaped by watching his immigrant mother rent rooms in their Berkeley home to stay afloat after his father's death, Lichtenstein spent a decade quietly co-buying properties with friends and family before formalizing the model into Nestment in 2021. The company has since raised $3.5M in pre-seed funding and facilitated over $200M in real estate transactions, with 74% of buyers being first-timers and 62% identifying as BIPOC or immigrants. Before Nestment, he founded The History Project (later Enwoven), a digital storytelling platform backed by The New York Times Company that powered Ambassador Richard Holbrooke's history into an HBO documentary.