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Epicenter Stockholm sells the room where business happens
Desks start at SEK 5,900 a month. The bigger proposition is access to founders, corporate teams and people who can open doors - and now Epicenter wants to take that model across an entire district.
Robert Mock Bet the Company on a Seaweed Chip. The Recall Made Him Smarter.
A former derivatives banker tried to make seaweed crunch like a tortilla chip, lost the bet, and rebuilt around a better signal: what shoppers actually put in their carts.
IKEA
How a Swedish teenager's mail-order side hustle became the world's largest furniture retailer - and why the whole thing runs on flat boxes, cheap Allen keys, and a foundation that answers to no shareholder.
Rob Chumley
At Murphy USA, the former 7-Eleven innovation chief is turning millions of hurried fuel stops into a practical laboratory for loyalty, payments and customer experience.
Balsam Brands
Balsam Brands turned one allergic relative, 16 carefully modeled trees and a brutally short selling season into a global holiday retail business. Its real advantage is not merely making fake firs look convincing - it is engineering an entire company around the six weeks when Christmas gets serious.
Martine Reardon
Martine Reardon is an American marketing executive best known for a 32-year career at Macy's, where she rose from the special events department to become Chief Marketing Officer from 2012 to 2016. She led a 1,300-person marketing organization spanning advertising, brand, social, mobile and digital media, and she presided over cultural institutions like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Fourth of July fireworks. Her teams collected Emmys, Clios, Effies and Reggie awards. After Macy's she joined the National Retail Federation as Chief Marketing Officer and later strategic advisor on content and retail strategy, and she has served on corporate and nonprofit boards including Empire Company / Sobeys and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois.
Abhinai Srivastava
Abhinai Srivastava is the co-founder and CEO of Mashgin, the world's fastest AI-powered touchless self-checkout system. A data scientist by training with roots at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook, he co-founded Mashgin in Palo Alto with IIT Delhi classmate Mukul Dhankar. The company has processed over 1.5 billion transactions across 8,000+ locations - from Circle K convenience stores to Madison Square Garden - and reached a $1.5 billion valuation after a $62.5M Series B led by NEA in May 2022.