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Gabe Kleinman
Gabe leads founder solutions and marketing at Obvious, helping companies build resilient, values-driven operations and stewarding the Obvious brand.
Menopause Meets Its Match. Her Name Is Sally Mueller.
It was all going according to Sally Mueller’s plan. She had an incredible co-founder in Michelle Jacobs, enough capital to book purchase orders for Target’s...
The Unstoppable Determination of Michelle Longmire, MD
A grandfather engaged in developing the hydrogen bomb and establishing the underpinnings of electromagnetic pulse theory. Her father, a molecular biologist involved in the Human...
The World Positive Report Returns
The 2021 World Positive Report is here. We did it again, as you’ll see, for Obvious reasons: Every choice we make impacts out world. Plugging...
Maria Fujihara Decarbonizes the World
It was January 2018 when Maria Fujihara, completely broke and in need of airfare back to Brazil from the Bay Area, called her parents as...
Reimagining ESG Reporting For Startups
The field of impact measurement has evolved meaningfully over the past 20–30 years, most recently with PRI as an investor framework, UNSDGs as a general benchmark, and the B Labs...
These Robots Learn. Meet Their Teacher.
We’re nearly an hour into our conversation when Samir asks me to stand up. “Stick out your finger,” he says. I tilt my head with...
The Persuasion Equation
“I don’t think of myself as a ‘marketing person.’ I’m a scientist! But marketing matters. Learning to tell the story of Recursion, to share a truthful...
Venture Capital Needs a Complete Reset
Though I’ve worked in venture capital for the past four years, I still identify as an outsider. The majority of grand VC musings today from...
A Sea Change in Seafood
Valerie Robitaille has been building businesses with family since she was ten, from hawking homemade insect repellent to lemonade-standing on the corner. “I’d even write...
The Top Ten World Positive Stories of 2018
Media is likely to define 2018 as an unending cavalcade of tragedies. Freshly crowned #1’s hit nearly every Worst _____ of All-Time list: hurricanes, wildfires, mass shootings,...
A Boon for Business, Creating a Windfall for Causes
In today’s Silicon Valley rife with hype, Lily Kanter stands out with a refreshingly pragmatic, matter-of-fact mindset. Business basics have been the bedrock of her...
Food Is Medicine, and Neka Pasquale Wants to be Your Doctor.
I’d barely crossed the threshold of her office when Neka stepped on her radiant soapbox. The message was crystal clear and devotedly consumer-centered. “Big Food...
Incredible. Immigrant. Inspiring. Introducing Iman Abuzeid.
Type “Iman Abuzeid” into your browser. Despite her talent and accomplishments — M.D., MBA, startup founder and CEO — not much comes up. Turns out, this is by design....
Building Better Machines That Are Better for Humans
Canvas Co-Founder and CTO Maria Telleria brings her vision, values, and Ph.D. to bear on a construction industry in need of reinvention. Maria Telleria became...
Leslie Silverglide Flips the Fast Food Script
“If you want to do it, do it. Never think small.” This feeling — instilled by her mother — has stayed with MIXT CEO Leslie Silverglide her entire life. Born in Nashville...
It Takes More Than Tech to Redefine a Trillion Dollar Category
In July 2018, one of the first machine learning-discovered compounds was approved by the FDA for phase one clinical trials targeting cerebral cavernous malformation, a genetic disease...
The Seeds of a Building Revolution
Welcome to the slow, unreliable, expensive, and dirty world of residential construction: Neighborhood disruption. Delays. Change orders. Cost overruns. Permitting problems. Noise and air pollution. Unsustainable...
The Org is Your Product. The People are Your Customers. Design Their Journey.
Despite their stated function, the vast majority of Human Resources and People Ops-related programs are devoid of both humanness and people-ness. Leadership tends to overlook...
Down With Bias, Up With Profitability
While study after study demonstrate that more inclusive companies outperform their peers financially, practices to diversify company workforces remain in their nascency. Startup CEO’s and Fortune 500 executives continue...
Words of Wisdom From the Queen of Quality Content Marketing
In two and a half short years, First Round Review has become a household name in Silicon Valley by uncorking a sea of “powerful, untapped knowledge trapped...
