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Christina Burke Found a Business Model in the Dollar Bin
The Missouri technology executive discovered that donated coats, crowded tables and one-dollar price tags could do more than clear a room. They could help a town finance the causes it cared about.
John Hussey Makes Two Kinds of Calls - Flags on Sunday, Lifelines All Week
An NFL referee walked into an airport with a startup on his mind. A decade later, his second rulebook has routed more than $100 million toward animal rescue - and put purpose-driven dog food on Walmart shelves.
Josh Wais
Josh Wais is the co-founder and CEO of Good Dog, a New York-based marketplace that helps people find and get a dog from vetted breeders, shelters, and rescues. A Wharton graduate and early Jet.com operator, Wais built Good Dog with co-founder Lauren McDevitt after they hit a wall trying to find a puppy themselves and discovered how opaque and scam-prone the process was. The company applies expert-backed vetting standards to a fragmented, roughly $70-billion pet industry, and has raised over $18 million from investors including Felicis, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, and the founders of Warby Parker and Harry's.
Dylan Matthews
Dylan Matthews is a policy journalist, effective altruism advocate, and former senior correspondent at Vox, where he founded and led the Future Perfect newsletter and section for seven years. Known for his deep-dive reporting on global health, animal welfare, and evidence-based philanthropy, Matthews embodies his own editorial philosophy: he donated a kidney to a stranger in 2016, initiating a chain that helped four people. As of December 2025, he joined Coefficient Giving (backed by Open Philanthropy) to manage the $120M+ Abundance and Growth Fund, moving from writing about doing good to actually doing it.