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Most people who become CEOs of successful brands start with some relevant experience. Judd Zebersky started with a law degree and a willingness to learn on the job in rural China. The company he founded, Jazwares, grew over nearly 30 years into a household name driven largely by the success of Squishmallows. Zebersky graduated from […]
Most technology founders enter regulated industries reluctantly, deterred by compliance requirements and slow institutional cycles. Justin Fulcher made regulated environments the center of his career from the start, co-founding a telemedicine company at age 21 that aimed to bring healthcare access to populations across Asia. The Telemedicine Gap in Asia When Fulcher co-founded RingMD in […]
Dr. Andrew Jacono remembers the girl on the school bus. She had a cleft lip and palate, and her classmates avoided her. He sat next to her when others would not. After she had reconstructive surgery, everything changed the teasing stopped, the isolation ended, her peers began to see her as a person. That memory […]
The intersection of commercial success and responsible business practice has moved from the margins of corporate strategy to its center over the past decade. London-based entrepreneur Burak Basel recognized this shift early, building Basel Holding’s approach to sustainability and corporate responsibility as an integral element of its long-term value creation model rather than a reputational […]
The finance industry has a long-standing reputation for prizing quantitative skill above all else. Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent decades quietly challenging that assumption from the inside. Leading a team of 20 professionals who manage more than $15 billion in client assets, Nelson has refined a view […]
When Greg Soros left his senior producer position at a major media company in 2020, the podcasting industry was chasing scale above everything else. Networks were flooding platforms with content, competing on volume rather than craft. Soros watched this trend unfold and made a deliberate, different bet. Rather than building a sprawling network, he founded […]
Kelcy Warren sat down with Hart Energy in December 2023 fresh off an induction into the organization’s Hall of Fame, and the conversation quickly turned to something more personal than company milestones or industry forecasts. Kelcy Warren, the executive chairman and co-founder of Energy Transfer, said that transitioning out of energy is simply impossible for […]
San Francisco has world-class art institutions. Keeping them that way requires sustained investment — not just from public budgets, but from individuals who understand what these institutions contribute to the cultural life of a city and choose to support them actively. Vanessa Getty is one of those people. She served as honorary co-chair of the […]
The Hart Energy Hall of Fame ceremony in December 2023 brought together some of the most accomplished figures in the global energy business, but it was Kelcy Warren’s remarks that drew the most attention for their directness. Kelcy Warren, executive chairman of Energy Transfer and one of the Texas energy industry’s most prominent figures, used […]
Most conversations about carbon emissions focus on per capita figures, and for good reason: they capture how efficiently a society uses energy and resources. But Colcom Foundation argues that looking only at per capita numbers obscures a larger and more uncomfortable truth about America’s environmental trajectory. When Efficiency Is Not Enough From 1970 to 2021, […]
