If the election of Donald Trump to the highest office in the land doesn't serve as "shock therapy", in the words of one our participants, for the progressive movement and the Democratic Party, what will? A little more than a month after the election, Democrats still coming to grips with...
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Charley Wang and Matt Jorgensen believe in giving chefs the tools they need to become micro-entrepreneurs, from liability insurance to bulk purchasing partners and offline skill shares.
One week after the 2016 presidential election, Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom discussed the empathy and inclusion that's missing from the tech equation, and the ways in which California will continue to forge ahead in its progressive agenda.
At What's Now: San Francisco, Plethora Co-Founder Nick Pinkston discussed his sweeping vision for his company and for the future of capitalism.
The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression, according to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, who's referencing the work of pioneering psychologist Brian Sutton-Smith. Sutton-Smith studied the psychology of play for five decades.
Fred is a Baby Boomer mayor who's pretty sure he's got things figured out. Wife and 2.5 kids, big house in the suburbs, steady full-time job. When the sharing economy comes along, he doesn't quite know what to make of it.
World-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal hopes that her latest project, which launches on October 10th, will harness Pokemon Go's ability to create super-empowered hopeful individuals and bring these benefits into the political sphere.
Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and author of the recent book The Sharing Economy, believes crowd-based capitalism could replace managerial capitalism in the next 10-20 years. Sundararajan believes crowd-based capitalism is an inherently superior model, one that uses resources more efficiently, which tends to result...
American cities have plenty of jobs and nowhere near enough housing. Do city officials stand a chance of keeping Millennials residents around?