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Kriste Goad and the Business of Starting Over
She trained to report other people’s stories. Then a lost job, an agency of her own and a difficult rebuild gave the Nashville founder a story she could no longer cover from a distance.
Hank McLarty Built a Wealth Firm Like a Football Team
The former Auburn linebacker turned a bruising lesson about quitting into a 20-year experiment in team-based advice, humility, and the strange art of knowing when a founder should join a larger huddle.
Megan Dusenbery
Megan Dusenbery is the Chief Executive Officer of Knack, a student success platform that helps colleges run paid peer tutoring programs. Appointed in October 2025 alongside the company's Series B led by New Markets Venture Partners, she succeeded founder Samyr Qureshi, who moved to executive chairman. She spent nearly two decades building higher-ed partnerships at Kaplan (rising to Senior Vice President of Higher Education) and at ACUE, where she was Chief Partnerships Officer before taking the Knack job.