Brooks Running is a Seattle-based company that designs and sells performance running shoes, apparel, and accessories, and does nothing else. A subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, it narrowed its focus to running in 2001 and turned a near-bankrupt shoe maker into a category leader, closing 2025 with roughly $1.5 billion in revenue and its ninth straight year of growth. Its core franchises - the Ghost, Glycerin, and Adrenaline GTS - anchor the No. 1 position in U.S. specialty running retail, built on cushioning and support technologies like DNA LOFT, BioMoGo DNA, and GuideRails.

Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer are two of the most influential tech journalists working today. Newton founded Platformer, a newsletter covering social networks at the intersection of tech and democracy, co-hosts the Hard Fork podcast with the NYT, and broke landmark investigations into Facebook's content moderation crisis. Schiffer co-ran Platformer as managing editor, authored 'Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter' (Penguin Random House, 2024), and now serves as Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Together they shaped some of the most consequential tech journalism of the 2020s.