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Managed by Q made everybody clean - even the CEO
An iPad could order the cleaner. Managed by Q’s harder idea was to make cleaning a good job - and turn the office’s daily annoyances into a business.
The Parking Lot Changed the Robot
A college project meant to tend every yard found its real job in a parking lot. Viabot now sells the unglamorous pleasure of a clean commercial property, night after night.
FLR Spectron makes the office work, one connection at a time
From dropped restaurant calls to meetings that need an IT chaperone, FLR Spectron tackles the everyday friction of business technology. Its expanding brief now includes the data and people behind AI adoption.
The Cousins Who Decided Tampons Should Work Like Toilet Paper
Thyme Sullivan and Denielle Finkelstein left corporate careers, got rejected by 50 VCs, then talked their way into Jamie Dimon's cocktail party. Now their in-stall period dispensers are bolted inside Fortune 500 bathrooms.
The 1972 Oakland Two-Man Shop That Became Silicon Valley's Fire Whisperer
A special-hazards fire company from 1972 spent 45 years learning how to protect the rooms where a single sprinkler head would be a disaster. Then private equity came knocking.
Regus
Mark Dixon turned a plain observation - real business happening at cafe tables - into Regus, the flexible-office network that now spans thousands of locations and quietly outlasted the startup that was supposed to bury it.
Sciens Building Solutions
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.