The private equity market has split into two tracks. At the top, 47 megadeals valued at $5 billion or more closed through the first nine months of 2025, pacing 31% above 2024’s count, per PwC. Below that tier, mid-market sponsors are competing for a narrowing pool of quality assets while fund-stage constraints press harder on…
The Colcom Foundation has now distributed more than $500 million in grants since its founding in 1996, a milestone that places it among the more prominent private funders operating in Western Pennsylvania. Founder Cordelia Scaife May established the organization with a focus on environmental conservation and sustainable population policy. Established with a vision to enhance…
At nineteen, Justin Fulcher left Clemson University for a three month trip to Southeast Asia that stretched into seven years. He had already learned to code at age seven and started a business as a teenager, so a traditional campus in Charleston, South Carolina felt too slow for someone eager to build something of his…
Most advice about writing for children starts with wants and goals. Greg Soros Author takes a different route. After more than fifteen years crafting stories for young readers, he has landed on a single question that guides every character he builds: what does this character need to learn? “The most important question isn’t ‘What does…
Few executives have led both massive public corporations and smaller private firms the way Michael Polk Newell Brands has. With more than 40 years in leadership roles, including stints at Kraft, Unilever, and Newell Brands, Polk has a rare vantage point on how differently the CEO job plays out depending on company structure. The Weight…
Greg Soros made a bet in 2020 that most people in his industry would have called reckless. Rather than ride the wave of content proliferation sweeping the podcasting world, the Portland native walked away from a senior producer role at a prominent media company and set out to build something deliberately smaller. His Austin-based studio,…
There is a particular kind of engineering challenge that only reveals itself when a system is deployed at scale in difficult conditions. Justin Fulcher has spent his career seeking out that challenge, first in healthcare technology across Asia and later in defense modernization in Washington. RingMD and the Problem of Reliability Fulcher co-founded RingMD in…
Longevity in wealth management is no accident. It demands adaptability, resilience, and an ongoing commitment to earning trust rather than assuming it. Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has navigated nearly 30 years in the field by treating every client interaction as a chance to either build or reinforce something…
Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has built an investment portfolio concentrated at two of the most important intersections of technology and societal need: clean energy and healthcare. These are not separate investment theses for him but two expressions of a unified view about where technology creates the greatest genuine impact — and therefore the most…
Ask Greg Soros, author and longtime contributor to children’s literature, what the field gets wrong most often, and the answer circles back to emotional honesty. Too many books, he argues, treat childhood as simpler than it is and young readers notice. Children’s publishing has shifted considerably over the past two decades. Readers expect more from…