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Kelly Householder Keeps One Eye on the Dashboard and One on the Horizon
The ClickBank CEO built his career making complicated systems behave. In Boise, his two worlds - digital commerce and general aviation - share the same discipline: trust the instruments, know the route, and keep adjusting.
PropertyGuru’s billion-dollar return to the house hunt
After expanding into mortgages, software and home services, PropertyGuru is concentrating on the search that made its name. Its US$1.1 billion takeover puts a price on the value of being where the house hunt begins.
Kogan Built a Checkout Aisle That Never Ends
The Melbourne retailer began by cutting the middlemen out of television sales. Twenty years later, its more revealing product is the customer relationship itself - reused across a marketplace, membership and a shelf of everyday services.
FULLBEAUTY Brands
FULLBEAUTY Brands is a New York-based online retailer and holding company dedicated to plus-size and extended-size fashion for women and men. Tracing its roots to 1901, it operates a portfolio of 15+ brands - including Woman Within, Roaman's, Catherines, Jessica London, ELOQUII, CUUP, Swimsuits For All, KingSize, Avenue, Dia & Co and BrylaneHome - serving customers in sizes 12 and up with apparel, intimates, swimwear, shoes, accessories, beauty and home goods. Once a catalog mail-order pioneer, the company now positions itself as a digital-first destination and marketplace for inclusive fashion.
Steven Schwartz
Steven Schwartz is the co-founder and CEO of Whop, a New York-based digital marketplace where people buy and sell software, courses, communities, and other digital products. He started building and selling iOS sneaker bots from his bedroom at 13 with future co-founder Cameron Zoub, ran through roughly two dozen side hustles, and launched Whop in 2021. The company reached a reported $1.6 billion valuation, processes billions in annual commerce, and Schwartz says it has minted over 650 millionaires. Backed by Peter Thiel, Insight Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Tether, he pitches a future where work is fun and money worries are obsolete.
duPont REGISTRY
duPont REGISTRY is a luxury automotive lifestyle brand and digital marketplace that has connected affluent buyers and sellers of exotic, classic and collector vehicles since 1985. What began as a glossy print catalog of fine automobiles has grown into an omni-channel ecosystem - marketplace listings, a long-running magazine, exotic-car financing, insurance, editorial content and events - serving high-net-worth enthusiasts. Now part of duPont REGISTRY Group (Driven Lifestyle), the company facilitates billions of dollars in luxury vehicle transactions each year from its base in Clearwater, Florida.
Paul Gatti
Paul Gatti is co-founder and CEO of CompareNetworks, a South San Francisco-based B2B media and technology company he built from a postdoc's side project into a 12-brand portfolio serving 8 million science and engineering professionals. Trained as a microbiologist at Tulane and UCSF, Gatti pivoted from the bench to the boardroom around 2000, assembling a media empire that connects buyers and sellers across life sciences, pharma, engineering, and industrial sectors. Under his leadership, CompareNetworks has grown via strategic acquisitions — GlobalSpec in 2020, Gulf Energy Information in 2025 — backed by Main Street Capital since 2019.