By Patrick Sisson

The fourth-floor loft inhabited by Spaceship Collaborative—on Jackson next to Lou Mitchell’s—doesn’t look like a typical start-up. Freestanding desks, custom cabinetry, and dark wooden tables made by an Amish craftsman fill the sleek, airy office. Then again, this isn’t your typical new business. Jacob DeHart, 28, is a Chicago Internet success story, cofounder of the pioneering multimillion-dollar T-shirt company Threadless. Along with his wife and Spaceship Collaborative partner, Mischa, 25, DeHart is getting entrepreneurial again with Culinary Culture, an evolving social media hub featuring restaurant profiles, event listings, and a modern, upscale spin on the old-fashioned recipe swap.

“Our business is like a recipe,” he says. “If next month our users want a new feature, we can just tweak the recipe.”

On Spaceship Collaborative founders Jacob and Mischa DeHart – Chicago magazine – February 2010 – Chicago