The luxury watch industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. Forget the velvet-lined boutiques and six-figure price tags on new timepieces — an entirely new kind of buyer is entering the market, and they’re not going to the brand flagship. They’re going pre-owned. And they’re not settling. According to Grand View Research, the global pre-owned luxury […]
When Daniel Doll looks at the evolution of Bushwick Kitchen, one of the most interesting parts of the story is not that the company entered the sweet-and-spicy category. It is that the company did so before the category had a name. Bushwick Kitchen launched in 2014 with Bees Knees Spicy Honey, combining honey with habanero […]
Peter Jang doesn’t wait for recognition. He earns it, one demanding station at a time, and New York’s most exacting kitchens have taken notice. He trained at the Culinary Institute of America, sharpened his craft on the cold station at Gramercy Tavern, and now commands the fish station at Jungsik New York, the only three-Michelin-starred […]
The traditional relationship between talent and geography is becoming increasingly difficult to defend. For decades, companies built teams around the assumption that the best people had to be physically close to the business. But the rise of remote work, digital infrastructure, and globally connected markets has challenged that assumption. The question for modern organizations is […]
Dr. Connor Robertson, a Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur and five-time published author, is best known today as the founder of Elixir Consulting Group, a marketing and sales organization built to help businesses optimize for growth. At 32, Robertson has built his career around one central question: what actually makes a business grow, and how do you turn […]
The life of an entrepreneur is filled with challenges , uncertainty, and fear, and despite what some believe, that doesn’t go away as you become more successful. In fact, it’s the opposite—the more successful you become, the more adversity you face. That’s because as you grow, you’re forced to solve bigger problems, and usually for […]
For Dane Stevens, CEO of Optimi Health, building a pharmaceutical company around psychedelic medicines may seem like a dramatic departure from a career spent in the international gem trade. But the two worlds share more in common than might appear at first glance. Raised in a third-generation family jewelry and manufacturing business, Stevens learned early […]
The polymath behind innovations in supercomputing, AI, healthcare, and longevity science is building the Herschel-Balki Observatory, an AI-driven public observatory in Europe’s largest Gold Tier dark sky park, named for the father-and-son astronomers who founded modern stellar astronomy. A 1960s space-race museum and Rosewood-inspired stargazing cabins will sit beside it. He met us at the […]
Every large company has the same dirty secret. They commit billions of dollars through contracts, then track those commitments in SharePoint folders, email chains, and 95-slide PowerPoint decks built from screenshots. Brandon Card saw it firsthand. As an enterprise seller at Microsoft managing nine-figure deals, he watched Fortune 500 customers with $50 billion in supplier […]
Shay Levister was a child the night her mother packed her and her brother into the car and drove them to a domestic violence shelter, one step ahead of an abusive home. The place that was supposed to feel like safety felt filthy and frightening instead, and the two kids begged their mother to turn […]
