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.
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.
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.