There is a meaningful difference between backing a business and running it. Priore has experienced both sides at Priority. According to Hypepotamus, when the company launched in 2005, he served more as an active investor than as an operator, a role consistent with his early career in investment banking. How Thomas Priore moved from investor […]

Long before Energy Transfer became one of the largest pipeline networks in the country, Kelcy Warren was a boy growing up in Gladewater and White Oak, two small towns in rural East Texas where pipeline work ran through families the way farming did elsewhere. That background would eventually define his entire career. From Lone Star […]

New formats keep showing up in front of young readers, from apps to interactive platforms to whatever comes next, and it would be easy to assume that changes what a children’s book needs to do. Author Greg Soros does not see it that way. After more than fifteen years writing for children, he treats format […]

Wealthy families used to have one main constraint when hiring an advisor: finding someone with access to the right investment opportunities. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, says that constraint has largely disappeared, and a different one has taken its place. “Access to capital is no longer limited; access […]

A picture book and an early chapter book might sit on the same shelf, but according to author Greg Soros, they ask completely different things of a writer. Over more than fifteen years writing for young readers, he has built his career around understanding exactly where those differences lie, treating each age group as its […]

How Burak Basel Built a Business Across Three Continents. It is easy to reduce an organization like Burak Basel to a single headline, but the fuller picture is more layered than that. Burak Basel’s continued growth is a good starting point for anyone trying to understand how the pieces fit together, since it moves past […]

Field Marketing Heads Into a New Year With a Focus on Talent As direct sales organizations plan for the year ahead, many are prioritizing talent development over rapid headcount growth, a shift from the growth-at-all-costs playbook that defined parts of the industry a decade ago. Leaders across the field marketing company landscape increasingly point to […]

A recent update on Edumentors, the UK-based online tutoring platform, has drawn renewed attention to one of its backers, Yazan Al Homsi. The company confirmed it has crossed $4 million in cumulative sales while posting 1.8x year-over-year revenue growth, a milestone outlined in coverage from Business Insider Africa that also detailed the company’s expanding footprint […]

Company founders do not always stay in the seat they started in, and Justin Fulcher‘s career illustrates that shift clearly. He co-founded RingMD in 2013 at age 21, building a telemedicine platform that connected patients with physicians across Asia and eventually operated in multiple countries. For years, he was the person steering the company’s daily […]

Gulf Coast Western has spent more than five decades building a name synonymous with dependability in the oil and gas exploration business. The Dallas-based firm traces its roots to 1970, when founder Thomas Fleeger set out to build a company grounded in honesty and straightforward dealing with partners. That foundation still shapes how Gulf Coast […]