Eddie DeCurtis didn’t grow up watching The Sopranos—he lived it. His father and uncle were real-life made men…

Kyle Blanchard has spent his entire career chasing engagement. First, it was extraterrestrials—he studied physics and astrophysics, landed a job offer with SETI, and almost went down the path of decoding alien signals. But when he realized what the job paid for living in Berkeley, he pivoted. Hard…

Loyaan Egal is, quite literally, an African American—born to a Somali father and an American mother. That kind of cultural whiplash—ninth grade in Saudi Arabia, tenth grade in New York City—does something to you. In Loyaan’s case, it taught him how to adapt fast, read his environment, and say yes when opportunities showed up in unusual packaging…

When Thomas Mancuso moved to San Francisco, he was driving a U-Haul over the Bay Bridge as Governor Newsom announced the statewide COVID-19 shutdown..