Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

The excellent @jwherrman.bsky.social on Reddit and the end of the Internet (with a few notes of context on how the hell we got here from me) nymag.com/intelligence...

Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.

I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.

Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

"‘You know what? I’m going to take back what’s mine.’ And I did that. It’s my dream, it’s my legacy, it’s something I created,” says Pinky Cole. “It was important for me as a woman, especially a Black woman, to show what resilience looks like.” (gift link) www.inc.com/christine-la...

"‘You know what? I’m going to take back what’s mine.’ And I did that. It’s my dream, it’s my legacy, it’s something I created,” says Pinky Cole. “It was important for me as a woman, especially a Black woman, to show what resilience looks like.” www.inc.com/christine-la...

They Had the Ultimate Exit. Here's Why They Bought Their Companies Back There’s no single reason or uniting circumstance behind women founders returning to resurrect the companies they built—except this.

This is not a story about letting go.

These women--from Naomi Watts to Jaclyn Johnson to Pinky Cole--had fascinating, very different stories, of going through the same thing: Buying back the brand and company they'd poured love, sweat, and focus into. @inc.com

www.inc.com/christine-la...

A T-Shirt Was Grown, Spun, Knit, and Entirely Made in America. It Only Took 4 Years. Imogene + Willie set out to make a "single origin" t-shirt and learned some powerful lessons about managing supply chains in a trade war.

Exclusive, and this is launching tomorrow. Pretty fascinating. @inc.com www.inc.com/christine-la...

Why thank you!

Flexport's Ryan Petersen Knows What Small Businesses Need to Do to Survive the Trade War Deferring duties, bonded warehouses, valuation services, and other strategies to avoid pain at the ports.

"I’ve been predicting a deal will get done. So hopefully we see it shortly. If it doesn’t, then all bets are off. And my prediction would then be shortages, and inflation, and unemployment ..."—Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen www.inc.com/christine-la...

Or you could just become very, very opposed to gothic architecture

Fair Trade Founder Paul Rice on What U.S. Businesses Lose in a Trump Trade War 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.

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. (📝: @lagorio.bsky.social)

Fair Trade Founder Paul Rice on What U.S. Businesses Lose in a Trump Trade War 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.

www.inc.com/christine-la...

NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models — The American Sunlight Project Click here to read the report. Click here to read the press release. Click here to access the database. It may be tempting to consider Russian influence campaigns in the United States and ...

Oh lovely, the propagandists are "grooming" LLMs now. www.americansunlight.org/updates/new-...

Why Does Everyone Think They Can Fix Social Networking? Eliminate content? Let AI moderate? Change the discourse? These entrepreneurs are on a mission to fix our social media hellscape.

Why does everything on the Internet feel so broken? Ah, it is. Here’s how and some smart predictions about the future of AI slop. www.inc.com/christine-la...

Jonathan Adler Is Grateful for Growth Capital The home decor entrepreneur discusses the evolution of his namesake company and why he sold to private equity.

Jonathan Adler had some wise thoughts about his eponymous brand's recent acquisition. And his dog is really a good girl. www.inc.com/christine-la...

Steve Blank Thinks AI Can Help You Find Your Customers—and Your Next Business Model He changed the way we think about startups. Now, Blank wants you to think really hard about taking that investor money.

He changed the way we think about startups. Now, Blank wants you to think really hard about taking that investor money. (📝: @lagorio.bsky.social)

But do you "jeepers"?

Jeni Britton’s Sweet Second Act Podcast Episode · From the Ground Up · 02/03/2025 · 50m

New podcast episode! Starting over after 26 years, with @jenibritton.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

Inside the founding and growth Bookshop, the scrappy company (that, at a glance, looks quite a bit like a nonprofit) that's taking on Amazon at its first game: books. Now it's going up against Kindle, while slinging some mud in the eyes of Apple and Google. @inc.com www.inc.com/christine-la...

Welcome to the Era of Premium Eggs As egg suppliers scramble to cope with surging costs spurred on by a particularly devastating strain of bird flu, the alternative markets for plant-based and premium eggs are having a moment.

Here's what's up with the eggs. www.inc.com/melissa-ange...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

Here's the story of how and why they did it! (gift link) www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

More on the data and sentiment behind it (gift link) www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

More on the future of this at the bottom here! (Gift link) www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

And here’s my story (gift link) on the how Bookshop built this all out—and Hunter’s audacity—and how it could change books’ relationship with the social web. www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

If you need some good news today… www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

Here’s my story on how it came to be! (Gift link!) www.inc.com/christine-la...

Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books. The platform has made a profit while supporting brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market.

Readers and writers will understand that this is wild! I'm reading a new book in my web browser. Not a watermarked galley. Not library. I bought it.

I wrote this about how and why. It's Bookshop's latest to help indie bookstores instead of sending CEOs to space @inc.com www.inc.com/christine-la...

The Quest to Purge PFAS: How Brands Are Taking Up Arms Against the Invisible Toxins Forever chemicals are as pervasive as they are insidious, and some brands have found opportunity in their elimination.

The latest in our series on how companies are dealing with PFAS. Excellent work by @chloeaiello.bsky.social www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress? The WordPress co-founder's open-source empire dominates the web. His attack on competitor WP Engine may be putting it at risk.

Ah, don't worry, Internet, he prefers the term "enlightened leader." www.inc.com/dfreedman/ma...

I love the 180 head swivel. So chic.