Founders Focus on Offline Community Building to Combat Social Isolation

Founders are creating offline platforms to address social isolation, citing the World Health Organization's classification of loneliness as a global health challenge. Examples include interactive group tech solutions and craft education ventures aiming to foster real-world connections.

Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. […]

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