Aug 6, 2026
A lot of founders hit seven figures and assume they’ve built a business. But if sales slow down, decisions stall, or customers feel the difference whenever they step away, they may still be self-employed.
Jeremy Shapiro has built companies across SaaS, ecommerce, technology, and services. He’s seen the same pattern...
Jul 30, 2026
I bought a lake house in Austin and discovered I was paying city taxes even though the city wasn’t providing water, sewer, trash collection, or electricity.
Julie Drenner helped me legally remove the property from Austin’s tax rolls. But that uncovered another problem: the city could still regulate what I build, how...
Jul 23, 2026
Dean Guida started Infragistics at 23 to build UX/UI tools for professional software developers.
Thirty-seven years later, the company operates across six countries, its software is used by more than two million developers, and its customers span the entire S&P 500—including Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Exxon, Intuit,...
Jul 16, 2026
Today I’m talking to Jim Donnelly, a founder who has built and scaled businesses across travel, real estate, wellness, and longevity medicine.
He built an online travel community with 300,000+ members that later rolled into Travelocity. He developed luxury real estate that still holds Charlotte’s record for price...
Jul 9, 2026
Today I’m talking with Geoff Woods, author of The AI-Driven Leader and founder of AI Leadership, about why so many founders are using AI on the wrong problems.
Geoff helped drive Jindal Steel & Power’s market cap from $750M to $12B in four years, and one of his points really stuck with me: you don’t get beyond a...