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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline

TechCrunch · Sep 20, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

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. […]