For young founders, selfie sticks are as vital as funding

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Myles Slayton
Miles Slayton, 23, founder of the dating app Cerca.

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Myles Slayton wanted to be a startup founder, not an influencer.

We bought a $630,000 house and moved my mom into the basement apartment. It's helped us care for her and build wealth.

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Juli Ford and with her daughter and mother on the couch
Juli Ford lives in a multigenerational house with her family.

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Buying an apartment seemed my best option. Visiting a tiny home village showed me another way to live.

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Meet the single moms raising their kids together in a Manhattan 'mommune'

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Bernie Sinclaire and Anabelle Gonzalez

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Bernie Sinclaire calls herself a "mommunist."

I went to a kids' Pokémon event. I expected child's play, but got a trading floor.

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Pokemon trading event
Edi, a 9-year-old Pokémon fan, told me a single card could be as valuable as a house. He was right.

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Older divorced women priced out of housing are finding a lifeline in tiny home villages

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Tiny house village
Minitopia's largest site is in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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I was frustrated by every baby carrier on the market. So I built my own — and grew 2,200% in the last three years.

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Skye, Hope&Plum's CEO and cofounder, posing with a buckle carrier in her home.
Skye Amundsen is the cofounder and CEO of hope&plum.

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I built an AI tool to mimic my work. It's helped create passive income from my solo business.

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Julia Starr
Julia Starr vibe coded an app using the platform Lovable.

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I became a single mom and needed to rent a house in one of the most expensive zip codes in the US. My parents moved in to help.

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Vanessa Gordon and family sitting a couch in the living room
Vanessa Gordon lives under one roof with her multigenerational family in East Hampton, an expensive neighborhood in New York.

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This essay is part of The New American Home, a series that examines multigenerational houses.

An 80-year-old woman has an elite VO2 max. She's as healthy as a 60-year-old thanks to a simple routine.

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Linda Kelly
Linda Kelly built elite fitness over the years by staying consistent.

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"I have always seen myself as a very ordinary person with no real athletic ability," said Linda Kelly.

Still, at 80, she has completed multiple half-marathons and routinely hikes, bikes, and runs around her part-time home in Anchorage, Alaska.

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