Michelle Legro
@michellelegro
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Deputy Editor @inc. Previously: @wired, @GENmag/@medium, @topicstories, @longreads, @newrepublic @laphamsquart
Brooklyn
Joined May 2010
Thank you, king.
If we had waited on Washington, almost 500,000 NYC kids would not have gotten Pre-K and 3-K in the last 10 years.
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I NEED THIS.
Fro-yo nostalgia is here to stay. Unlike ice cream, which evokes childhood, fro-yo evokes eras—often one that spans from 2006 (the opening of Manhattan’s first Pinkberry) to roughly 2014, a stretch defined by Girls, Fleet Foxes, The Book of Mormon, and sugary cereal atop tart
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RT @NewYorker: Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner to be the next mayor of New York City—but in 2021, he resigned from the governor’s office i….
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RT @seywarddarby: If you thought the Met Gala was the biggest thing @voguemagazine had going on this week, THINK AGAIN. I wrote about the n….
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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse….
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The thing no one tells you about having a 2.5 year old is how many times you’re going to have to watch Buster Keaton’s “The General.”.
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RT @michaelwwaters: so excited to finally share the piece I've been reporting on the Irvine Company—the landlord that built the city of Irv….
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Okay but I simply must know why a story about a WW2 vet in San Antonio turning 100 takes up three of the ten most engaged social stories of the last three months. Combined, that's more than Goldberg's story.
1 big thing: @TheAtlantic's Story of the year .— A spokesperson for The Atlantic said it was "one of the top subscription-driving stories" for the magazine OF ALL TIME.— Most viral story of the year BY FAR, per SimilarWeb.#axiosmediatrends
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RT @BenMullin: scoop: Bard College is acquiring Lapham’s Quarterly, essentially resurrecting the magazine.
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There's very little good news out there right now, but this makes my heart soar.
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New episode of Computer Freaks is up at @Inc! Find out what really went down at Marc Andreessen's first job, and how that made him a big fan of DOGE.
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RT @mikehofman: Is DOGE's scrutiny of universities and researchers from Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Penn to the NIH and NSF fueled in part….
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RT @daniellesacks: If you want to understand the failure of Forever21, I suggest you read a deep-dive about the dead mall king who bought i….
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The Criterion Mobile Closet probably doesn’t even to announce its presence at SXSW. It could just drive down the street and people would throw themselves off the sidewalk.
UPDATE: Due to incredible demand and visitors waiting for hours before the line officially opened, it looks like we’re already at capacity for the day. If you were planning on coming to the Mobile Closet and aren’t yet on line, we recommend you come back tomorrow morning — we’ll.
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RT @SamAugustDean: Great story getting into the plumbing of the American business (/scam) world.
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RT @mikehofman: Fun little investigation by @Inc's @sammblum on Lovette Dobson, a person whose name appears on tens of thousands of LLC doc….
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A new investigation from @Inc on one of the most curious figures in LLC registration. If you've ever run into the name "Lovette Dobson" while trying to figure out who owns a company, this is why!
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RT @AliCDonaldson: Tariffs are being slapped in every direction. Most businesses are bracing. This startup is leaning into the chaos. Swap….
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RT @davidsirota: The Supreme Court just gave scammers and robocallers the right to endlessly spam your phone and harass you. https://t.c….
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