I mean, I love astrology-I’ve always loved astrology-but it never seemed like something I could make a career out of.
We sat in the lobby, and she asked me about the app and any ideas I had, and I was just kind of hired on the spot. A mutual friend connected us and we met up at the Arlo Hotel one day. I transferred to New York and met Banu Guler, our CEO and founder, because we ran in the same social circles. After school, I was interning at Adult Swim doing animation on the show FishCenter Live. I run our social media, I make all our memes and our push notifications, and I write content for our app. Below, Stone and I talk astrology in the workplace, the art of making people feel “seen,” and what happens when there are too many water signs on the one team. Stone is a Pisces sun, Cancer moon, and Taurus rising, and-along with the brand’s head writer- creates and distributes all of Co–Star’s social content, including memes and push notifications. It turns out that person is Stone Parkway, Co–Star’s Community Ambassador.
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My camera roll is full of them, screenshot for posterity: some I saved because they arrived at the exact time I needed to hear them, others because they were downright brutal (see above), and a lot because they delivered an element of joy and whimsy that none of my other notifications do, like the reminder I received a couple of months ago to try being a plant for a day.Īs long as I’ve had Co–Star, I’ve wondered who exactly is behind the notifications that blow up my phone screen each morning (and the only Instagram memes I still bother tagging friends in). If I hadn’t personally signed myself up to receive Co–Star’s famously passive aggressive push notifications, I’d probably be offended. “Nobody cares how many books you’ve read.”