Category: Business

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…

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…

The Hart Energy Hall of Fame added a fitting name to its 2023 class in December when Kelcy Warren, executive chairman of Energy Transfer, joined the roster of industry legends. During a Hart Energy LIVE exclusive interview held alongside the ceremony, Warren spoke about gratitude for his fellow honorees and offered his perspective on the…

The most compelling evidence for the value of the Grit Marketing experience is not what happens during a sales season but what happens afterward. Grit Marketing alumni are visible throughout Utah’s business community and well beyond — in technology sales, in financial services, in entrepreneurship, in real estate, and in management roles across industries —…

Innovation in financial services is easier to discuss than to execute. Regulations are complex, client trust is hard to earn, and incumbent institutions have deep advantages in distribution and brand recognition. Burak Basel has navigated these challenges by focusing on the specific intersections where technology can genuinely improve outcomes for clients—rather than innovating for its…

How Glenn Lurie’s Synchronoss and AT&T Experience Shapes AI Investment Strategy at Stormbreaker Ventures Glenn Lurie has spent decades at the intersection of technology and telecommunications, and that background now informs one of the more methodical approaches to AI investing in the venture capital space. As the founder of Stormbreaker Ventures (read more), Lurie draws…

The story of RingMD begins not in a boardroom or an accelerator, but in an unnamed prototype built by Justin Fulcher during his early years living in Southeast Asia. What started informally would eventually grow into a telehealth system operating across more than fifty countries, serving 1.5 million patients through a network of 10,000 providers.…

Some executives prefer to lead from a distance, setting direction and delegating execution. Michael Polk is not one of them. Since becoming CEO of Implus LLC in 2020, he has embraced a style of leadership defined by direct involvement, collaborative decision-making, and a close connection to the people doing the work. It is a model…