Product Coverage
Hook & Loop @ Infor
Infor rides the retail wave - sees network effects, the sharing economy and AI as game changers (Diginomica, April 2018)
Infor’s retail ambitions – on machine learning, Whole Foods, and where the traction is (Diginomica, July 2017)
Venmo
Online shoppers can now use Venmo to pay for their new gear (Engadget, October 2017)
US Sanctions Mean Paying For Cuban Sandwiches On Venmo Is Complicated (Buzzfeed, December 2016)
You Can Now Use PayPal's Venmo To Pay Merchants (Fortune, January 2016)
Venmo is Growing Ridiculously Fast (Recode, April 2016)
You'll Soon Be Able to Shop Using Venmo (Fortune, October 2015)
Venmo Now Supports Shared Group Accounts (The Next Web, August 2015)
MikMak
MikMak mobile video shopping platform raises $3.2M seed led by VaynerMedia (TechCrunch, August 2016)
Meet MikMak, a Shopping App That's Aiming to be QVC for Millennials (Fashionista, May 2015)
Making Infomercials for the iPhone Generation (Ad Age, May 2015)
Fab & Hem
Hem’s Addictive, Custom Shelving Tool Teases Responsive Furniture To Come (FastCo Design, October 2015)
Hem, Fab’s Pivot Into Home Furnishings, Goes Live In 40 Markets (TechCrunch, September 2014)
Fab Debuts Private Label Sofa Line at NYCxDesign (Apartment Therapy, May 2014)
WaPoLabs / Trove
Blimey, Trove Might Have Figured Out How To Share Treasure (Killer Startups, January 2014)
Can a Social Reader App Move From Useful to Fun? (Slate, January 2014)
Publications & Presentations
Digital Money
Everyday Digital Money: Innovation in Money Cultures and Technologies (2008)
3D Printing & Futurism
The Future is Fabulous: Digital Fabrication, Datascaping and Design Futurism (2010)
A Critical Anthropology of Fabbing (2009)