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Bill Smith and the business of getting on with it
A grocery trip helped turn Bill Smith toward Shipt. A difficult move pointed him toward Landing. The Birmingham founder keeps finding companies in the chores people would rather skip.
Dr. C. Vivek Lal’s second education
Dr. C. Vivek Lal had the degrees. Building resbiotic meant learning a different curriculum: customers, capital, and the courage to ask his family to come along.
David Northington and the art of getting bigger
At Cloud Sherpas, David Northington helped turn specialist teams into a global consulting business. Now leading OSF Digital, he faces another change in enterprise technology - and a familiar question about how people grow with it.
AutoTec and the Art of Letting Strangers Trade
A used car can arrive with a polished bonnet and a complicated past. AutoTec has built a business around the less glamorous questions: who may buy it, what happened to it, and whether the money will arrive.
The Advertising Agency Named Luckie Stopped Believing in Luck
For seventy-three years, a family name has carried an awkward promise. Luckie’s answer was to replace chance with data, then teach an old Southern agency to behave like a modern operating system for attention.
Ozzy Osbourne Kept Finding New Ways Back to Birmingham
He left Aston with a factory worker’s vowels and returned as the voice that helped give heavy metal its shape. Between those two points came reinvention, family television, festival economics and one final, wonderfully circular night at Villa Park.
Joblogic wants to close the gap between job done and invoice paid
A repair can be finished long before the paperwork is. Joblogic has built a business around that delay, and more than £100 million in fresh backing is financing its next move.
Inspired Thinking Group Makes the Big Idea Work Overtime
The Birmingham marketing group has built a business around advertising’s endless variations. Its pitch to brands: keep the creative ambition, cut the repetitive work.
The Birmingham startup that made pharma pay for trust it never earned
Del Smith and Tiffany Whitlow built a 200,000-member community first and an AI second - and got seven of the ten biggest drug makers to buy the trust they earned.
The 119-Year-Old Insurer Built for the Next Life Moment
Protective Life spent more than a century insuring families. Its next act is broader: retirement income, dealer finance, employee leave and a pending move into specialty insurance - all powered by a quiet expertise in buying and administering promises that can last for decades.
Prepaid2Cash
Prepaid2Cash is a Birmingham, Alabama fintech that turns network-branded prepaid cards and store gift cards into spendable cash. Users scan a card in the mobile app or online and receive funds by direct deposit, instant debit transfer, PayPal, Venmo, or Bitcoin, often within minutes. Founded in 2016 by Peter Vogt and John Gushman, the company set out to unlock the billions of dollars that sit trapped on plastic every year because prepaid and gift cards can't be deposited into a bank account.