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When Greg Soros founded Podcraft Media Lab in Austin, the obvious business case pointed in one direction: land Fortune 500 clients, scale production output, and focus on revenue. He pursued that path and then built something alongside it that has arguably had a wider effect on the podcasting world than any single client project. The […]
The payments industry is one of the most technically complex, competitively intense, and economically significant sectors in global business. Understanding it from the inside — as an operator building and running a payments company rather than as an analyst or investor observing it from the outside — gives Thomas Priore a perspective on where it […]
Leadership in wealth management is often measured by assets under management, headcount, or the prominence of institutional backing. Michael Gold of Westport takes a different measure. For the founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth, leadership means remaining personally accountable to clients through complexity, transition, and time. “UHNW families want to know that the people […]
Hart Energy, one of the oil and gas industry’s most established media and events organizations, introduced its inaugural Hall of Fame in December 2023 by honoring 50 figures who defined the sector across half a century. Kelcy Warren, founder and Executive Chairman of Energy Transfer, received that distinction with a biography Hart Energy itself characterized […]
Trust is the word investors use most often when describing what they want from a financial advisor. But trust is also the attribute most difficult to evaluate. Michael Gold, who leads Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built his practice around making that evaluation possible, by showing clients how to look past marketing language […]
Gulf Coast Western was founded in 1970 with a narrow focus on developing domestic oil and gas reserves in Louisiana and Texas. More than fifty years later, the company operates across six states and has expanded through a series of acquisitions and joint ventures that transformed it into one of the more prominent independent operators […]
Most wealth management firms treat transparency as a compliance obligation. Michael Gold treats it as a service model. The Westport-based founder of Gold Family Wealth says that genuine transparency in private wealth is not about delivering more documents to clients it is about ensuring that every advisor serving a family actually understands what the others […]
Few executives can point to a clear, deliberate line from the classroom to the corner office. Michael Polk is an exception. His education at Cornell University and Harvard Business School did not just open doors it provided the analytical and managerial foundations on which an entire career in consumer-packaged goods was built. Polk enrolled at Cornell […]
Margarita Howard built HX5 on a hiring philosophy that has served the company well for two decades: recruit people who have already worked inside NASA or the Department of Defense. Not in comparable commercial roles. Not in adjacent industries. Inside those agencies, where they absorbed the procurement culture, security protocols, and operational tempo that define […]
Choosing the Bar means choosing self-employment. For most barristers, there is no employer, no firm structure, and no team to absorb the day-to-day pressures of practice. Emily Windsor, a chancery barrister with judicial experience, has spoken with characteristic directness about what that structure genuinely involves — the advantages it creates and the pressures it places […]
