Dear Marker Reader, A phrase being tossed around everywhere right now is “retail apocalypse” — first initiated by the dominance of Amazon, and now accelerated by the pandemic. It’s being deployed in conversations about main streets, e-commerce startups, and iconic retailers. In This Is How The Gap Dies, we examine…

Dear Marker Reader, There are predictions flying at us from every direction right now: E-sports will replace the NFL! Movie theaters will become extinct! Telemedicine will become the new normal! It’s a natural impulse, particularly when national disaster strikes, to imagine how it will collectively alter everything. …

Dear Marker Reader, In my nearly 20 years as a business journalist there are always those interviews that you can never quite shake. The audacious ones, the ones that leave you speechless, and then the ones that surprise you in a more subtly poignant way, like when J.Crew’s creative director…

Dear Marker Reader, As you settle into another week of WFH mission control — taking that deep breath of here we go again — we’re here to help you center your thinking. Last week, Marker editor-at-large Steve LeVine wrote the can’t-miss This Looks Like a Depression, Not a Recession, a…

Dear Marker Reader, As you gear up to begin your week, the distractions are probably already tugging at you: What are these bizarre new coronavirus symptoms people are talking about? What’s going on with the stimulus bill? Who is Dr. Fauci, and why do I need to care about him? …

Dear Marker Reader, Somehow, we made it to Friday. Whatever we thought our problems were a week ago, have been supplanted with a barrage of unpredictability — markets, a pandemic, whiplash economic projections, all while homeschooling on the fly. READ: Amazon’s Pandemic Savior Complex At Marker, we can promise you…

Dear Marker Reader, A couple of weeks ago, news broke that Ty Haney, the founder and CEO of the hot athleisure-wear startup Outdoor Voices, was abruptly stepping down. …

Dear Reader, It’s been a whiplash kind of a year for companies that decided to go public. Hyped unicorns like Uber, Pinterest, and Peloton had dismal IPOs, while WeWork and Hollywood powerhouse Endeavor scuttled their plans altogether. …