$1M in 12 minutes: How the Nap Dress became a pandemic uniform

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Presented by   Ok, I’ll admit it. I’ve stepped up my nap game over the last year to cope with the exhaustion of living through a pandemic. So I was intrigued when Instagram lit up with women wearing a Nap Dress. That’s right, it’s a beautiful looking frock designed to get you from nap to Zoom—and back to nap, if you so desire. The startup behind the dress, Hill House Home, has seen explosive sales while consumers have been stuck in quarantine. But its founder, Nell Diamond, must now figure out how to convert this year-long boom into long-term growth. Here's how she's planning to make that happen. —Liz Segran   fashion $1M in 12 minutes: How the Nap Dress became a pandemic uniform Hill House launched a dress that became a quarantine sensation. Here’s how it’s planning to keep growing post-pandemic.   impact Plant-based burgers aren’t a health food. That’s a good thing The point is to get people to stop eating meat, not fix their diets.   tech How to prevent the next GameStop disaster If there’s a villain in the GameStop saga, it’s the federal regulators who failed to notice the world was changing and didn’t bother to update the rules.

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