Christine Lagorio Chafkin

6 days ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

It set out to make a T-shirt. On the one hand, it’s just a T-shirt that comes in seven sizes and two colors. On the other hand, this particular T-shirt can be seen as a symbol for many larger national conversations: about economic revival, sustainability, and supply-chain traceability, about small farmers and fair wages, about revitalizing American factories.

1 week ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

Kevin O’Leary isn’t exactly known for his sunny disposition on Shark Tank. But when he really adores a business, he beams. In an exclusive interview for Inc.’s Small Business Week Series in partnership with Shark Tank, I asked the Canadian businessman, investor, and reality-show star best known as Mr. Wonderful to specify some of the top examples he’s seen of finding and nurturing a customer base.

3 weeks ago | inc.com | Christine Lagorio Chafkin

The effects of President Trump’s trade war are being felt in ports, on roadways, and on the open seas—not to mention inside the companies whose supply chains are in tumult. Ocean container bookings from China to the U.S. have dropped precipitously this week; companies that have brought goods to shore from China since Monday are scrambling to store them in bonded warehouses or foreign-trade zones. Others are grappling for tax adjustments, or are rebalancing their sourcing.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.