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Sep 23, 2026
Kathleen King spent twenty years building a bakery in Southampton, lost it to the partners she brought in to lighten the load, and started over in the one thing they couldn't take.
Sep 16, 2026
After a failed internet business, a real-estate collapse, and an agency he had to leave behind, Jason built his next company with a different kind of ownership in mind
Sep 9, 2026
Garrett Mehrguth wanted a job at Bain or McKinsey and never got past the application form. Thirteen years later he owns a $25 million agency and a second company that buys agencies like it
Sep 2, 2026
Ismael Valdez spent nine years behind a counter at a parts distributor, asking every contractor who walked in what their business actually made. Fifteen years later, he sold his own for a figure none of them had reached.
Aug 26, 2026
Allison Maslan had Ben and Jerry's and Supercuts on her client list by the age of 25. Getting free of it cost her almost everything it was worth.
Aug 19, 2026
Leah Garcia spent twenty years on television before she mortgaged her house to start NULASTIN. The skills that made her good in front of a camera turned out to be the ones holding the company back.
Aug 12, 2026
Over two decades, Julia Hartz helped build Eventbrite from a three-person startup into a public company. Then COVID erased its business almost overnight.
Aug 5, 2026
Nick Huber arrived at Cornell convinced entrepreneurship meant building the next big thing. A student storage business changed how he thought about companies, wealth and what it really means to be an owner.
Jul 29, 2026
After years building businesses for other people, Nathan Lenahan discovered that the fastest way to become an owner wasn't starting from zero. It was buying a company someone else had already built and earning the right to carry it forward.
