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HiLabs and the doctor who isn’t there
A wrong address can turn a health plan’s provider network into a paper promise. HiLabs is building AI for the unglamorous work of making that promise check out.
Mike Rubin wanted a smaller part
From a reluctant turn in school theater to founding Northpond Ventures, Mike Rubin has kept returning to the same question: how do you make yourself useful?
Theodore Shin and the value of a familiar shop
From golf counters to Big 5, Theodore Shin’s investment career has converged on places where people still choose their equipment in person. The Bethesda executive’s 2025 retail deal pairs private capital with the staying power of familiar names.
Edward Quinn and the business of being ready
From packaging plants to wholesale power and a building-materials sale, Edward Quinn has worked where finance meets physical operations. At Milepost Power, that meeting now takes place across a growing fleet of gas-fired and dual-fuel plants.
Amit Garg and the Expensive Art of Being Correct
He set out to predict illness. The data refused to cooperate. So the engineer from Dehradun built HiLabs around a quieter, costlier problem: making healthcare information trustworthy before asking it to be clever.
The Most Valuable Ad on Campus Is a Student With 30 Seconds
MarkitAds spent years selling the familiar machinery of modern marketing. Then it found a harder-to-fake unit of attention: one student, one conversation, one verified signup.
Brett Bernstein’s long bet on independence
He left Merrill Lynch without taking the usual check, built XML Financial Group from his own pocket, and learned that scaling a wealth firm is less about collecting offices than keeping people.
Adrienne Prentice
Adrienne Prentice is the co-founder and CEO of Keep Company, a Bethesda, Maryland group-learning platform that gathers employees into coach-led peer groups to fight isolation, prevent burnout, and keep parents and caregivers from quitting. A former technology attorney at Cooley and Pillsbury who built and led a 35-person global legal team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she traded the partner track to build the support system she wished she'd had as a working parent. Keep Company has raised roughly $2 million in venture funding and was named by Techstars and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures among the top ten companies innovating in the care economy.
Matt Booty
Matt Booty is the EVP and Chief Content Officer of Microsoft Gaming, overseeing content strategy and development across nearly 40 studios including Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, and King. A Purdue-trained engineer with an MFA, he began his career at Midway Games in 1991 - working on Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam - before rising to CEO of Midway in 2008. He joined Microsoft in 2010, led the Minecraft global team, and has since orchestrated some of the largest acquisitions in gaming history, including the $7.5B ZeniMax/Bethesda deal and the $68.7B Activision Blizzard King acquisition.