The founder narrative that gets the most airtime in 2026 tends to start in a university dorm room, a prestigious accelerator, or a well-funded research […]
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Delaware Court Rules Fairstead Wrongly Canceled Co-Founder Will Blodgett’s Equity
Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster found the affordable housing firm’s LLCs were the ones in breach when they stripped the founder’s ownership stake. The Delaware […]
Sanjeev and Arani Soosaipillai’s Business-Growing Tips
Sanjeev and Arani Soosaipillai founded what would become the Prax Group in 1999 with a single filling station. The business now spans oil production, refining, […]
What Michael Shanly Learned From That House He Biked Past
When you are thirteen, the world still presents itself as fixed. Streets are streets. Buildings are buildings. A boarded window is just a boarded window. […]
Simbi Wabote on Building for Function and Symbolism
There is a particular kind of construction site that looks unimpressive to a passerby. No dramatic skyline yet. No ribbon-cutting crowd. Just graded earth, roads […]
Beyond the Bottom Line: Dame Alison Rose’s Civic Mindset
A bank is one of the few private institutions people turn to when life gets practical. A small business owner arrives early to make payroll. […]
Michael Shanly on Letting Go With Grace and Clarity
Property development attracts a particular kind of confidence. You buy what others overlook, commit capital before certainty arrives, and live with the consequences in brick, […]
Crisis Management When Millions Are Watching: A Referee’s Perspective
Most crisis management training occurs in conference rooms with hypothetical scenarios and role-playing exercises. Sports officials like Soeren Friemel develop their crisis skills in a […]
Fixing Bikes, Building Empires: A Portrait of Michael Shanly
Michael Shanly’s story doesn’t begin with blueprints or boardrooms. It begins with a bike. As a teenager growing up in post-war Britain, Shanly was less […]
How Seth Hurwitz Turned Quirks Into His Core Strategy
In a business often dictated by algorithms, ticket sales, and scalable experiences, Seth Hurwitz stands as an outlier. As the founder and chairman of I.M.P. […]