The Wonolo Blog

As a kid, if I wanted to hang out with friends, I would run across the street to a friend’s house and ring his doorbell. He’d tell his mom he was going outside, and we’d run around the neighborhood getting [...]

Last month, I watched an ESPN “30 for 30” on the Buffalo Bills. I’m admittedly not a big sports on TV guy, but this documentary sucked me in. It was both heartwrenching and inspiring. Beyond the bigger story of what [...]

My mother was 22 when I was born. Although she dreamed of being an educator, she gave it all up to raise me and my two siblings. She devoted herself to us until all three of us went off to [...]

I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of senior HR executives at a Fortune 500 company about the emergence of on-demand services and its impact on the future of work. Somehow, our discussion switched over to a [...]

“Machines will never replace humans,” grumbled an executive sitting behind me during Neil Jacobstein’s presentation on “The Rise of the Machines” at the 25th SIA Executive Forum in late February 2016. Interestingly, he was not the only attendee who expressed [...]

I heard a quote today about how difficult and tedious gardening is: “Gardening is 90% pulling weeds, 10% planting seeds.” It’s not just the glamour of designing a garden and then planting the flowers, but a great gardener knows what [...]

Stuck on a plane without wifi, I had the opportunity to catch up on a bunch of articles that I had been saving to read. Two articles of the dozen or so stuck with me – the first an HBR [...]

The first DVD I ever bought was The Matrix. Fantastic movie and in 1999 it was mind-bendingly innovative and amazing (and still is 16 years later). […]

I love heist movies. What I love about them is that seemingly impossible missions are accomplished by a group of misfits. Interestingly, startups are in many ways similar to heist movies. As I go through my own startup journey building [...]