Inside the Venture-Capital Arm of “Sesame Street”

On a sunny day in April, I visited the offices of the Sesame Workshop, across the street from Lincoln Center. At first, the space looks almost disappointingly normal, until you notice the heap of Snuffleupaguses piled on a desk, the hand-drawn Grovers in a hundred different poses pinned to a wall, and the tidy scraps of construction paper in every shade of yellow, as though waiting to be transformed into a papier-mâché Big Bird. “Sesame Street” isn’t here—the studio is in Astoria—but this is where they tell you how to get there.