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Erin Piacenti had finished her first day back from maternity leave at Bank of America on Monday afternoon, when she was fatally stabbed in Times Square. A few days after her death, a GoFundMe page to support her five-month-old, Madison, has raised more than $600,000.Piacenti, who was 32 when she…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ben Drury, cofounder and CEO of Yoto. It has been edited for length and clarity.My company wouldn’t exist without my kids. The idea started nearly 13 years ago, when I was shopping for a stroller in a London department store. One…
When I asked my wife, Cece, to drive me to Trader Joe’s, I wasn’t looking for groceries.That morning, I’d read a Wall Street Journal story about how Trader Joe’s canvas tote bags had become an “international status symbol,” with some resellers listing them on eBay for up to $50,000.The Journal…
As a native of Washington, DC, I’ll never forget looking out the window of an Amtrak train to take in the desert scenes of the American Southwest. The view looked just like the cowboy movies I loved as a kid.On other rides, I took in the endless open skies around…
