Tech caused the loneliness epidemic. Can it also be a cure?

With his app Pie, Bonobos founder Andy Dunn is betting that Gen Z doesn’t want another aspirational brand—it wants real friends.

Andy Dunn and Nadya Okamoto (center) [Photo: Shan/courtesy Pie]

America is in the thick of a loneliness epidemic. More than a fifth of the population reports feeling isolated. In a 2024 Harvard survey, 73% of people say that technology is part of the problem. Could technology also be the cure?

Andy Dunn hopes so. Dunn, best known as the founder of the menswear label Bonobos, which sold to Walmart for $310 million in 2017, has turned his attention to a trickier problem:........

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