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The United States hit a significant environmental milestone in 1972 that largely went uncelebrated. In that year, the total fertility rate dropped below 2.1, the level at which a population replaces itself without growing. It has never risen above that threshold since. Colcom Foundation holds this up as proof that the country has already demonstrated […]
Capital has never been easier to access. Judgment, Michael Gold argues, is another matter. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built one of the region’s notable private wealth practices around that premise, and it shapes every element of how his firm serves clients. “Access to capital is no longer […]
Germany’s energy policy faces a dual challenge: decarbonizing its electricity supply while reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels. These goals are connected — renewable energy is generated domestically, from sun and wind that are available within Germany’s borders and those of its European neighbors — but achieving them requires accelerating the transition at the retail […]
Yazan Al Homsi has been one of the more consistent voices in Canadian venture capital arguing that AI-powered telemedicine is not a regional story but a national one — that the commercial logic driving adoption in rural and underserved markets applies with equal force across the full geographic span of North American healthcare. Rocket Doctor’s […]
Communication across hierarchical levels in large organizations is among the most persistent and most consequential leadership challenges. The distortions that information undergoes as it moves up and down the organization — the filtering, the softening, the selective emphasis — can create genuine disconnects between organizational reality and leadership understanding that result in poor decisions and […]
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 […]
