Thompson & Co. built its business on a useful contradiction: Alaska is a national story, but it punishes anyone who treats it like a generic market. The agency sells the translation layer - local trust, national reach and the judgment to know when three reporters beat three hundred pitches.
A San Francisco startup led by an Alaskan energy trader is betting that the next wave of AI compute won't be built in Virginia. It will be built next to a waterfall in Cordova.