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Jonathan Taylor and the Quiet War on Choice
The Zoovu co-founder spent years teaching software to understand difficult products. Now, as CEO, Jonathan Taylor is betting that the future of shopping begins with a less fashionable virtue: clean data.
Peter Haendler and the Fine Art of Making Failure Brief
A career that began close to the help desk now sits inside a stubborn question in computing: when systems fail, how much work disappears - and how quickly can people begin again?
PROS Spent 40 Years Teaching Airlines What Every Seat Is Worth - Then Split the Company in Two
The Houston software veteran began with an overbooking algorithm, grew into a $330 million pricing platform and survived both a cloud rebuild and aviation's worst shock. Its new owner has now made a stark bet: the airline brain is more valuable on its own.
Allie Collins Is Making the Performance Review Face Real Life
After more than 15 years marketing SaaS, Betterworks CMO Allie Collins has arrived at a deceptively human thesis: work improves when managers get better signals, employees get timely conversations, and everyone stops pretending an annual form can remember the year for them.
Tony Nash Is Teaching Corporate Forecasts to Stop Taking It Personally
A logistics career that ran through Europe and Asia left Nash suspicious of tidy predictions and last-minute hunches. In Houston, he is building finance software around a blunt idea: if the number changes, the reason should be visible.
The Houston Warehouse That Sells You a Computer Twice
For 35 years, a family-run distributor on Bissonnet Street has made money on both ends of a computer's life - selling the hardware, then hauling it back to shred, wipe, and resell. Here's how the loop actually works.
BMC Software
BMC Software is a Houston-founded enterprise software company that builds the IT operations, service management, and mainframe automation tools that keep large organizations running. Founded in 1980 by three former Shell engineers, BMC has spent four decades turning the unglamorous work of keeping systems alive - monitoring, scheduling, patching, recovering - into automated, increasingly AI-driven products. Its flagship lines include Control-M (workload automation), the BMC AMI mainframe suite, and BMC Helix (service and operations management). Owned by KKR since 2018, BMC split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025.