Raising capital nearly broke Jewel Burks Solomon. She was a Black founder trying to get into rooms that weren’t built for her, watching good companies get passed over because investors couldn’t see the opportunity. That frustration eventually became a strategy.…
Reinventing a legacy business starts with figuring out what people actually loved about it. When David Rawlinson took over Qurate Retail in 2021, he inherited QVC and HSN, two brands built around television shopping just as consumers were moving to…
Three weeks after Anok Yai stood on the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall and was finally, after two prior losses, crowned Model of the Year, she was lying in a hospital bed at NYU Langone asking her family if…
Most executives climb by mastering one thing. Not Womack. After joining Southern Company in 1988, he bounced through government affairs, communications, HR, power generation. Along the way, he developed an unusually broad view of how the energy business actually works.…
Kevin Hart used to count his money in twenties. Not investment tranches or box-office multiples, but twenty-dollar bills handed to him after a set at a Philadelphia comedy club, back when $25 was the entire payday for a night’s work.…
