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Clay Dover and the art of staying small at scale
He started by clearing tables at 15. After helping Velvet Taco grow from four restaurants to 54, Clay Dover is taking a familiar question to Savory: how much can a restaurant grow and still feel like itself?
The Agency That Hired Nobody
Alexis Quintal built Rosarium around a peculiar bet: the people best equipped to advise entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs themselves. The result is a PR collective that treats reputation as a business system, not a pile of press clips.
Blue Jeans PR knows a following is only the beginning
Dairy Boy, Tezza and Rumored already know how to attract an audience. Rachel Granger’s agency helps give people outside that audience a reason to pay attention.
Alex Persson
Alex Persson is the CEO of Privy, the email and SMS marketing platform built for founder-led, scrappy ecommerce brands rather than enterprise giants. A former technology investor at Jefferies and ex-CEO of WeCommerce, he took the helm of Privy in 2024 and steered its 2025 acquisition of conversational SMS pioneer Emotive, betting that growing merchants want a partner and not just another dashboard.