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Miriam Manela Frankel and the Practice That Escaped the Office
A family legacy, a practical book and one pandemic-era leap carried Miriam Manela Frankel’s work from three local practices to lessons that can travel anywhere.
Zhen Lu Put the Cloud in His Basement
A quantum chemist quit the classroom, learned to code, and found his next experiment in two New Jersey basements. The result became Runpod, a developer cloud shaped by Reddit feedback, improvised infrastructure, and an aversion to making builders think about GPUs.
Ashley Emala Put Italy on the Only Line That Matters
After two decades spent making numbers behave, the New Jersey founder built a second act around a country she cannot stop revisiting - and the underrated luxury of a plan that leaves room to breathe.
Jacob Boyle Quit Building for the Navy. Then He Gave a Robot a Softer Job.
At 19, Jacob Boyle was carrying military-grade robots into a college dorm. Today, the engineer behind MARCo Health is testing a more human question: what happens when a machine is designed to listen first?