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Sloomoo Institute sells the pleasure of making a mess
Two friends found relief in slime, then built a business around letting strangers touch it. The clever part was charging for the room, the ritual and the permission to play.
RethinkFirst and the business of making help easier to use
An autism-training company grew into a supplier for clinics, classrooms, and corporate benefits. Its revealing new ambition is to make the machinery of support less exhausting than the problem itself.
Pete Pallarés
Pete Pallarés is the Barcelona-born founder and CEO of Center for Social Dynamics (CSD), an Alameda-based provider of in-home and center-based ABA autism services that has scaled across six western states since 2012. A former college basketball player at the University of Hawaii, he turned a personal experience with dyslexia and ADHD into a multidisciplinary, multilingual treatment company and a foundation that funds students entering the autism field.