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North to the Future

The Vault has been a revelation for Moses, upending a prevailing view of high-powered women in the workplace. “Tiger ladies” aren’t meant to have generous spirits. They’re supposed to claw each other’s eyes out, stab each other in the back. How else could they have climbed corporate ladders and not just survived, but thrived?

The Vault was always different, perhaps—Moses thought—exceptional. It had to be the result of a rare and secret chemistry. Moses believed she’d found a singular recipe, a pocket of warmth in a kitchen in a house in a tough town called L.A. She never imagined this formula could be replicated or that groups like hers were coalescing in other cities. She never believed women could be uniting across industries, ...