The path Dr. Andrew Jacono chose was not accidental. It traces directly to a moment in his childhood when he witnessed how a facial difference could isolate a person from ordinary social life and how surgery could change that. The girl with a cleft lip and palate who rode his school bus became, unknowingly, his…
The payments industry is simultaneously one of the most competitive and most stable sectors in financial technology. Competitive, because the opportunity is enormous and the barriers to entry have declined as cloud infrastructure and APIs have democratized access to processing capabilities. Stable, because trust, compliance infrastructure, and enterprise relationships take years to build and are…
When Utah-based Mira Home announced a $2.5 million charitable commitment to community initiatives, the announcement attracted attention in the pest control industry — not because charitable giving is unusual in business, but because the scale and specificity of the commitment signaled something more than standard corporate philanthropy. Mira Home’s community partnership model is built around…
Genuine confidence — not the performance of confidence but the actual internal conviction that you are capable of handling what is in front of you — is built through evidence. Each challenging situation successfully navigated provides the experiential foundation for greater confidence in the next one; each capability developed expands the range of situations in…
The concept of work-life balance implies a zero-sum competition between professional demands and personal ones — time spent on one necessarily taken from the other. Karl Studer operates with a different framework: that a well-constructed life integrates rather than balances its different demands, and that the separation of professional and personal identities into competing compartments…
Hassan Jameel and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi signed a memorandum of understanding at a ceremony attended by Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Transport, Saleh Al-Jasser, during the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh. The agreement between Abdul Latif Jameel and Uber Technologies outlines a plan to build a fleet operations platform covering both conventional ride-hailing and autonomous…
While most of the business world was still figuring out what artificial intelligence actually meant in practical terms, alejandro betancourt lopez was already moving capital into the space. That’s not a small thing. Timing in venture investment is everything, and getting it right — especially on a technology as sprawling and uncertain as AI —…
Business exits are among the most financially consequential events in an entrepreneur’s life. The years leading up to a sale or transition, and the period immediately following, determine how much wealth is preserved and how effectively it is structured for the family’s future. Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built…
A financial advisor who tells you what to do before fully understanding your situation is not giving advice. Michael Gold, the founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, makes this point with deliberate bluntness. After more than 25 years advising entrepreneurs, business owners, and wealthy families, he has seen what happens when advisors skip…
One of the earliest defining moves in Kelcy Warren‘s career came in 2004, when Energy Transfer acquired the midstream natural gas assets of TXU Fuel Co. and positioned itself in the Barnett Shale of North Texas before any competing pipelines had been laid. The bet paid off handsomely for a while. Production in the Barnett…