Christine Lagorio Chafkin

2 weeks ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

When companies are getting squeezed, sustainability and social benefits tend to be the first things to go. That’s a problem for the planet and sets back the conscious capital ecosystem. BY CHRISTINE LAGORIO-CHAFKIN @LAGORIOAPR 7, 2025Paul Rice. Photography by Nathan BajarListen to this ArticleMore infoPaul Rice founded Fair Trade USA in a one-room warehouse in Oakland, California, in 1998.

4 weeks ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

Eliminate content? Let AI moderate? Change the discourse? These entrepreneurs are on a mission to fix our social media hellscape. BY CHRISTINE LAGORIO-CHAFKIN @LAGORIOMAR 26, 2025Illustration: Inc.; Photo: Getty ImagesTucked among splashy affairs of SXSW in early March was a talk by Ev Williams, the investor known for having founded Twitter, Medium, and Blogger. This year he is promoting his new social app, Mozi.

1 month ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

Jonathan Adler never thought he’d become a brand. The one-time potter got his big break in 1993 by selling a collection of ceramics to Barneys New York, a deal that helped him launch his eponymous home decor and furniture company.

1 month ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

In 1999, after founding and running eight startups, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank decided it was time to step back and reflect on what it really takes to pursue an early-stage company.

2 months ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

Wendy Mullen was an undergraduate at the University of Kansas when she set up a clothing rack on a sidewalk in Lawrence, Kansas, to peddle her hand-sewn garments. Passers-by thought it was a garage sale. The self-taught designer and sewist enrolled in New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology the following year to professionalize her skills. That didn’t quite go as planned, either. “I didn’t really connect with the fashion world that much,” she says.