Narrative News Archive - Page 5 of 10

01 Feb

Even after Kobe quit basketball, his hard work did not end. He won the academy award at The Oscars earlier this year for his animated short film, ‘Dear Basketball’. In an interview, Kobe also talked about how he calls entrepreneurs and asks questions about stuff he doesn’t know. Chris Sacca, who is a billionaire investor, shared this story about Kobe Bryant with…

25 Jan

The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003. The organization, which was the governing body for professional cycling in Great Britain, had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new performance director. At the time, professional cyclists in Great Britain had endured nearly one hundred years of mediocrity. Since 1908, British riders had won just a single gold medal at the …

18 Jan

The skeptics thought no woman would ever make the first move. But Whitney Wolfe Herd, young, creative, and undaunted, stuck to her guns. In just four years, her women-centred social networking platform Bumble accumulated over 50 million users in 150 countries, with ladies having made the first move almost a billion times globally. These impressive numbers are only part and parcel of …

14 Dec

Soon after Conceiving the idea for Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling began writing but was immediately pulled away from her work by the devastating death of her mother. Rowling ceased working on the book and sank into a deep, grieving depression, getting little to nothing accomplished in that time. – In the hopes of digging herself out of grievance, she took a job…

07 Dec

John Cronin was born with Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes learning disabilities and developmental delays. But that has not stopped him from gaining major success in the business world. Mark, John’s father, says his son has always loved colorful, wild socks. So, they created John’s Crazy Socks Company. “I want to sell crazy socks. Why socks? Because it’s fun; it’s…

30 Nov

Lilly Ledbetter was employed by Goodyear Tire and Rubber for 19 years before she discovered that she was paid far less for the same work as her male peers were being paid. From 1979 to 1998 Lilly worked tirelessly at a Goodyear plant on an overnight shift where she was subjected daily to sexual discrimination and harassment. Lilly signed a contract with …

23 Nov

Eric Yuan got into collaboration technology for personal reasons. When he was dating his now-wife in his native China, he would take 10-hour train rides from college to see her. The trains were packed with people to such an extent that he could sleep standing up, and he would be held up by fellow passengers who were squeezed against him. This miserable …

17 Nov

Back in 1983, John Sculley was the president of Pepsi. He was a very highly paid executive sitting atop of one of PepsiCo’s most important divisions, and the youngest president in Pepsi’s history. Sculley had dedicated his career to Pepsi, and was widely believed to be a serious contender to become PepsiCo’s chairman one day. As a result of his high profile,…

10 Nov

ounder of Thoughtful Human, Ali O’Grady started a greeting card line that puts meaningful prose and illustrations into cards, but most importantly, into the hands and hearts of those who open them up. – It all started when she was on a complex journey with grief ever since she lost her “favorite human,” her dad, to colon cancer in 2011. She noticed…

05 Nov

As a designer, Miriam Brafman initially considered starting a design business, or perhaps an e-commerce site. But when she looked for a vendor who could provide customized shipping boxes for sending out future products, she came up empty-handed — save for a new business idea. “Everyone has packaging,” she says, and it seemed “so obvious” to her that a customized shipping-box service…