REDEFINING
RETAIL
TRISTAN WALKER | 35
Tristan Walker wants to
build more than a company;
he wants to build a legacy.
After a stint in Silicon Valley,
the Walker and Company
founder set out to increase
the availability of grooming
products for people of color
by selling them directly to
potential customers online.
In 2018, the company was
acquired by Procter &
Gamble, making Walker
the first Black CEO of a P&G
subsidiary in the company’s
180-year history. The deal not
only gives Walker access to
P&G’s billions of customers,
but also its resources. Walker
and Company recently
released the second iteration
of its top-selling Bevel beard
trimmer and is planning to
debut more than a dozen
new products in 2020: “In the
next 12 months or so, you’re
going to see a very ambitious
Walker and Company,”
he says.
ÑPatrick Lucas Austin
CONNECTING THE STARS
PAULA JOFRÉ | 37
The sun and other stars are a lot like
people: they’re born, they age, and they
die. Oh, and they have relatives. That
last idea was an insight Paula Jofré, of
Diego Portales University in Chile, had
along with anthropologist Robert Foley
of the University of Cambridge, when
the two began musing that stars birthed
in particular parts of the universe could
be elementally related because they
condense out of the same inter stellar
clouds. Since then, they have studied
the chemical spectra of the sun and 21
other local stars, and indeed found the
equivalent of genetic connections and
even a family tree. With trillions more
stars across the universe, there are a lot
more ancestral connections to be made.
ÑJeffrey Kluger
MAKING SPACE
AUDREY GELMAN | 32
As a young professional with a
hectic schedule, Audrey Gelman
relied on coffee shops and Amtrak
bathrooms to change clothes
between commitments. It was this
experience—and her desire for a more
professional alternative—that first
inspired the Wing, a female- focused,
members- only club that she founded
by opening a single
co-working space in
- Since then, the
Wing has taken flight;
it now touts more
than 10,000 members
across nine locations,
with new spaces set
to open in 2020.
ÑMahita Gajanan
WALKER: JASON HENRY—THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX; GELMAN: GETTY IMAGES
