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Microsoft Intune makes the office optional
A warehouse scanner, a personal phone, a laptop at the kitchen table. Microsoft Intune brings them into the same management system - and shows why the most useful office infrastructure can be the kind nobody visits.
Humanatic puts a human in the loop.
A recorded call can tell you where a customer came from. Humanatic asks what happened next - and pays a worldwide network of listeners to find out.
DuckDuckGo sells the search. Keeps you out of it.
A search for a car can pay for a search engine. Does it really need to become a dossier on the driver? DuckDuckGo has built its business around that question.
Yodo1 Games makes the game after the game.
A small train game reveals the business behind Yodo1: handling the ads, publishing and brand deals that keep a good game earning long after launch.
Omnipresent made the world your hiring pool
A physicist and a former Special Forces officer built a business around the paperwork nobody wanted. Now part of Deel, Omnipresent shows what it takes to turn a remote hire into a legal employee.
Wander discovered it didn’t need to own the view
Wander began by buying beautiful vacation homes. Its more interesting discovery was how much of the holiday it could control without holding the deed.
emptyvessel’s Small Team Takes On a Very Big City
The studio behind DEFECT is testing a practical idea: experienced developers, faster production tools and a tightly held vision can give a small team room to build a richly unpleasant world.
Articulate makes the dress rehearsal for work
A tractor, a hotel and a $1.5 billion funding round explain the appeal of Articulate: giving people somewhere to practise before the real job begins.
Stadium lost the office lunch. It kept the power of choice.
When offices emptied, Stadium turned a lunch-ordering system into a gift people could choose for themselves. Now it is stitching snacks, swag, recognition, and live experiences into one global business.
CAKE.com built the tools it wanted to stop paying for
Eight failed products preceded Clockify. Then CAKE.com turned its own office irritations into a three-app business - and made the price part of the product.
Zeus Living made moving easy. Staying solvent was harder.
A furnished home, working Wi-Fi, and permission to change your plans. Zeus Living sold a persuasive answer to the modern housing problem - then discovered the cost of keeping that promise.
Jive Communications made the office phone lose its office
Six Utah software founders built the phone system they wanted to buy. LogMeIn paid $342 million for the company, then folded its technology into GoTo Connect - where the calls kept coming.
ITX and the art of getting software unstuck
A stalled product catalog, a nervous service team, a school lunch menu. ITX’s work offers a useful lesson in software: the hard part is often deciding what people need to happen next.
Hubstaff sells the clock. The prize is time back.
A time tracker built by two founders with $52,000 became a business about the hours nobody can explain. Its most interesting promise is what happens after the counting stops.
Loom found a fortune in the meeting you never had
A recorder rescued from a struggling startup became a new office habit. Now Atlassian is asking Loom to turn all that talking into work people can actually find and finish.
Springworks and the art of being noticed
A background check, a thank-you, a survey: Springworks puts the small transactions of working life where people will actually complete them. Its wager is that better timing can make a better workplace.
Remote sells the paperwork that lets talent stay put
A video call can cross a border in seconds. An employment contract cannot. Remote built a business in the gap - and is now reaching from payroll into the rest of working life.
AmZetta wants your old PC to earn its keep
The company born from American Megatrends is giving existing computers a second job - and tackling the networks, access rules, and storage that make that job possible.
Equus and the Cost of Copy and Paste
Moving an employee abroad is easy to announce and awkward to administer. Equus has built a business around the expensive gaps between payroll, tax advisers, relocation vendors and the people waiting for an answer.
The Freelancer Keeps the Fee. So What Does Contra Sell?
Contra offers freelancers an unusual bargain: keep the project fee, and use one place to show work, sign the deal and get paid. The trick is making a business from everything around that promise.
The Office That Forgot No One
A missing name on a Zoom invitation gave Howard Lerman a peculiar idea: what if a remote company could see itself? Roam built a digital floor plan around that question, then filled it with meetings, messages and AI.
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 Video Call Was the Joke. Airtime Is the Answer.
Born as a joke about miserable video meetings, mmhmm became Airtime - a four-part toolkit for people who would rather be seen, heard, and understood than trapped in a thumbnail.
The Office That Lasted a Month - and the Agency Built Everywhere
A sudden rent hike killed Main+Rose's first office. The workaround became its operating system - and carried a small, female-founded agency from a Los Angeles intersection to campaigns for the United Nations, WeTransfer, and the USA Pavilion.
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.
Too much work, too few hands. Enter hifens.
Built by agency veterans who knew the cost of overwork, hifens connects overloaded marketing teams with a distributed collective of specialists. Its business starts where the staffing plan runs out.
Story Learned That Coworking Is Not Really About the Desk
A photographer's 1,500-square-foot studio became a 22,000-square-foot NuLu clubhouse for people who work alone. The revealing part is not the expansion - it is the location that failed, the focus that followed, and the business hidden inside a very good cup of coffee.
In Baku, Lotfi Zadeh Turns the Office Into a Place to Meet Your Next Collaborator
Lotfi Zadeh Technology Center sells desks, private offices and meeting rooms. Its more interesting proposition is putting the people building Azerbaijan’s technology businesses within talking distance.
The Growth Hub sells a desk - and a way into tech
In Akure, The Growth Hub brings coworking, digital training, creative studios and business support under one roof. Its journey from a SalesPlat workspace plan to an iHatch host shows what a local tech hub can become.
Upwork has a new job: making AI hire humans
The freelance marketplace built a business around finding people who could do the work. Now it must prove that AI will send enough new work their way.