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Aticco sells desks. The real bet is who sits nearby.
From a Barcelona attic to offices, shared homes and startup investment, Aticco is betting that proximity can become a business advantage. The interesting part is how it puts a price on belonging.
The Marketplace That Refuses to Take a Cut
CommsConsultants.com built a 600-plus-person talent network around a peculiar promise: make the introduction, then get out of the way. Its bet is that independent work needs less extraction and more trust.
ATypI and the trouble with “everything else”
A typography association once endorsed a system that squeezed most of the world’s scripts into a miscellaneous drawer. Its decision to reopen that drawer explains what ATypI is for today.
The PR Habitat is building the network you weren't born into
Damaryan Benton turned a LinkedIn post into a community for young communicators. Its real subject is everything a PR degree leaves between the lines: introductions, unwritten rules, and who pays to keep the door open.
Athena Alliance
Athena Alliance is a subscription community and learning platform that helps senior women executives build what it calls a 'Portfolio of Impact' - advancing into the C-suite, onto corporate boards, and into investing, entrepreneurship, and thought leadership. Founded in 2016 by Coco Brown, it blends a curated peer network, a learning library, 1:1 coaching, live salons, and direct board-opportunity matching. Its membership spans leaders from companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Disney, Databricks, and Stripe, and the organization says it has helped place hundreds of women on corporate boards.
Chief
Chief is a private membership network built for senior women executives - VPs, C-suite leaders, and the rungs just below. It pairs members into facilitated peer 'Core' groups led by executive coaches, layers on workshops, curated events, and physical clubhouses in major U.S. cities, and aims to close the gap at the top of the corporate ladder by giving women the kind of back-channel network that has long been reserved for men. Founded in 2019, Chief became one of the fastest female-founded U.S. companies to reach a $1 billion valuation.