Check Out The Social Networking App, Pie!

After a robust career building Bonobos and advocating for founder mental health, Andy Dunn moved to Chicago with his family. A few years later, he came to a depressing realization: He hadn’t made any new friends. Dunn’s experience is representative of a larger trend: Americans are lonely. This loneliness crescendoed at the onset of the pandemic but did not fully subside as lockdowns and restrictions eased. Dunn did eventually make a new friend, Gustavo Casas, a fellow tech founder and investor. Casas would soon become part of Dunn’s team for his newest venture called Pie, a social network aiming to solve the same loneliness issue he faced during his first few years in Chicago. Pie, which launched in Chicago and is now rolling out in San Francisco, connects users with events in their area. But Dunn is reimagining an overdone concept by incentivizing creators to host events.