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Flynn Wright Found the Answer at $1.88 a Gallon
Flynn Wright’s most useful product may be the pause before the pitch: find the human motive, then choose the message, medium and stunt that can move it.
Matthew Strawn Has Built a Career on the Iowa Art of Showing Up
From a Benton County farm to the helm of Strategic America, Matt Strawn has made a specialty of entering complicated rooms, reading the moment and putting service at the center of the work.
The Oldest New Trick in Advertising
In Des Moines, a family agency founded in 1907 keeps proving that the newest marketing problem often has an old answer: understand the buyer, remove the friction and make the story impossible to ignore.
The Agency That Sells the Moment a Person Changes Their Mind
The Des Moines agency begins where many campaigns end: with the stubborn little story people tell themselves. Change that story, ZLR argues, and a seat belt, a ballot or even a vasectomy appointment can follow.
Andy Priestley Put the Clipboard Online - Then Made It Talk to Coaches
A summer job in construction taught Andy Priestley the value of unglamorous work. He carried that lesson into sports technology, turning camp forms into a network that now sits near the front door of college recruiting.
Sharon Cooper Left the Newsroom and Took the Story to the Insurance Business
She spent the first act of her career explaining the news on camera. She has spent the second explaining a 115-year-old insurance company to the people who buy from it.
Beth Wood Wants Money to Feel Human
The chief marketing officer of Principal Financial Group built a career on a stubborn idea - that an industry running on spreadsheets and fine print can still make people feel understood.
EMC Insurance Companies
EMC built a $2.05 billion commercial insurance book without abandoning the local agent. Now the 115-year-old mutual is betting that better software can create more time for judgment, prevention and the human conversations that follow a loss.
Principal Financial Group
Principal began by selling affordable life insurance to bankers in 1879. Today, its quiet advantage is a workplace-to-wealth pipeline that reaches millions of people before they ever choose a financial brand for themselves.
Roboflow
Roboflow is a computer vision platform that gives developers and enterprises everything needed to go from raw images and video to production vision applications - dataset management, AI-assisted annotation, hosted training, low-code Workflows, and deployment to the cloud or the edge. Founded in 2019 by Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer, it is used by over a million developers and more than half of the Fortune 100, and maintains widely adopted open-source tools including Inference, supervision, Autodistill, and the state-of-the-art RF-DETR detection model.