Credit gives a business room to breathe. It lets you buy inventory, cover a rough patch in cash flow, or fund growth without draining your own savings. But here’s the thing nobody tells you: business credit doesn’t just show up…
In 2020, Ifeoma Ozoma left Pinterest with more than a career setback behind her. As a public-policy manager, she’d helped shape the company’s response to vaccine misinformation and other thorny issues. Then she went public with allegations of racial discrimination,…
When Reggie Fils-Aimé joined Nintendo of America in 2004, the company was getting left behind. Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s Xbox dominated the console wars, and Nintendo’s GameCube had sold about 21.7 million units. PS2 moved over 155 million. That’s…
For Black entrepreneurs, the most visible form of business capital is still venture capital. It is also one of the least representative of where most Black-owned businesses actually get money. Crunchbase estimates that U.S. startups with at least one Black…
Few CIOs are handed the keys to a $26.5 billion defense business. In 2022, Ted Colbert made that unusual leap at Boeing, moving from the company’s top technology role to president and CEO of its Defense, Space & Security division.…
Back in the 1990s, Byron Allen was just a comedian trying to get TV stations to air his shows. His first attempt at building a company ended in bankruptcy. His house nearly went into foreclosure. More than once. So he…
