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John Priore and the business of being taken for granted
His daughter drew Priority’s first logo. He spent thirteen years as its CEO, building a payments business around the ordinary transactions most people barely notice.
Scott Unger and the unfinished business of building
A contractor with a computer engineering degree, Scott Unger helped move construction management onto the web. After selling Constructware to Autodesk, he returned with Kahua to tackle the work that still falls between the cracks.
Scott Davis Keeps Asking the Question Software Forgets: Does It All Connect?
From a nine-year SAP run to rebuilding Calero's marketing stack and explaining AI governance at Stonebranch, Davis has made a career of translating complex systems into a sequence people can actually follow.
Jennifer Edwards Turned an Industrial Design Degree Into a Career Building Growth Engines
The Euna Solutions CMO began as an industrial designer. Two decades later, she still treats growth the same way: understand the system, make complexity visible, and build something people can actually use.
The Agency That Named Itself BAD - and Made Good Brands Go Bad
A Georgia agency built a brand around a word every marketer is trained to avoid. Behind the joke is a 150-person shop managing a quarter-billion dollars in ad spend.
Gravy
Gravy is an Atlanta-area fintech that recovers failed subscription payments for recurring-revenue businesses. Instead of leaning only on automated dunning software, Gravy pairs workflow automation with U.S.-based retention specialists who personally reach out to customers whose cards declined - by email, text and sometimes a live agent. Founded in 2017 by Casey Graham and Renee Weber, the company says it has returned more than $500 million to hundreds of clients and lifts recovery rates from the industry-typical ~15% toward 80%.