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Robert Yuen and the cost of invisible work
A young architectural designer kept working harder and still lost his job. Robert Yuen’s answer became Monograph: software that helps architects see the business behind the buildings.
Buffer put a price on freedom.
The social scheduling company spent $3.3 million to buy out its main venture investors. Its bet: useful software could support a business its people wanted to keep.
The PR Firm That Learned to Let Go
Kristi Piehl built a PR agency with newsroom instincts, a measurable promise and a peculiar idea about time: people might produce better work when the boss stops counting their hours.
The Agency That Put Friday Out of Office
From Kokomo, a fully remote marketing shop found a national niche in one of America’s least glamorous industries - then made a four-day week part of the machinery, not the mythology.
Matt Casamassina Has Spent 30 Years Deciding What Gets Played
He helped turn late-night Nintendo obsession into IGN, taught the App Store how to talk about games, and built Rogue Games around a publisher’s recurring wager: taste. His parallel career as a novelist reveals what the résumés leave out.