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Katia Beauchamp is the co-founder and CEO of Birchbox, the beauty e-commerce site and product-sample subscription box service. Since its inception in 2010, Birchbox has gained more than 1 million subscribers globally, and 4 million total customers. Fashionista.com calls Birchbox the “indisputable OG of the beauty subscription box phenomenon.” Katia lives in NYC with her husband and twin boys. This is how she works.
Source: I’m Katia Beauchamp, Birchbox Co-Founder and CEO, and This Is How I Work
Duolingo is a popular language leaning platform that has helped thousands of people develop their multilingual skills for free. Its gamified lessons emphasize quick learning so you can memorize a few new words without much effort while waiting for the bus.
Source: I’m Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, and This Is How I Work
Building something as complex as a car is an expansive collaborative effort calling on people with diverse backgrounds. There is, of course, the engineers designing the actual mechanics, but there are also the aesthetic and tactile elements that affect how you experience the car, each carefully chosen by designers.
Source: I’m Ven Lai, Creative Designer at Chevrolet, and This Is How I Work
It would be a point of pride for any entrepreneur to start a single company and achieve profitability, but Max Levchin has done a bit more than that. He’s had a hand in creating an entire string of notable and influential startups.
Source: I’m Max Levchin, CEO of Affirm and Co-Founder of PayPal, and This Is How I Work
For over sixteen years America’s Test Kitchen has approached cooking through a methodic, scientific lens, explaining how to execute a recipe to perfection. In a crowded landscape of culinary television, they stand out for their rigorous testing and accessible recipes.
Arianna Huffington just wants to get some rest but she’s not lying down yet. Last year she left her namesake site to start a new company called Thrive Global, taking aim at rectifying the chronic stress and burnout that has become standard in many industries.
There’s nothing easy about live television news. It’s a blend of quick-thought improvisation and journalistic research done in concert with complex technical systems, all done in an effort to relay the news. And it doesn’t get any easier during an election year.
Source: I’m Hallie Jackson, NBC News Correspondent, and This Is How I Work
Mary Roach wants to you to be uncomfortable, but intrigued. Her books examine the unexpected, curious minutiae of managing the human body and the science of how we deal with our own limitations.
Adam Steltzner is on a hunt for the truth. The engineer led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team on the Mars Curiosity Rover project, and tasked with delivering a rover the size of a small car safely to the Martian surface, decided that the best solution for final descent was a flying rocket crane. It seems crazy, but it was the right kind of crazy.
Source: I’m Adam Steltzner, Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and This Is How I Work
Normally, we hand the proverbial mic over to well-known leaders and creators, but this time of year we’re taking it for ourselves. I’m Heather and here’s a peek into how I work.
Source: How We Work, 2016: Heather Yamada-Hosley’s Gear and Productivity Tips
