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Sharon Lubrano Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Data Useful
Before taking charge of Gordian's global marketing, Sharon Lubrano learned the business from the product inward - from Lawyers.com and Bowker to a Revit app, recruiting software and corporate learning. Her career is a study in making specialist information easier to find, understand and use.
The Quiet Buyout Shop That Bets on the Pipes, Towers, and Billboards Nobody Notices
For almost 30 years, a small team in Lower Manhattan has quietly built and sold the unglamorous infrastructure of American communications and media - and made a business out of the boring.
The Company That Sells Certainty to People Who Cannot Afford to Be Wrong
Westlaw, Reuters, Checkpoint, CoCounsel: one company quietly sits behind the research a lawyer cites in court and the tax return your accountant files. Here is how a 175-year-old news wire became an AI software business.
Public Technologies
Public Technologies (branded 'Public', formerly noodls) is a New York-based information-services company that runs what it describes as the market's largest public disclosure platform. Every day its automated pipeline collects, normalizes, categorizes and distributes tens of thousands of corporate announcements, press releases, government statements and regulatory filings issued in dozens of languages by tens of thousands of organizations across nearly 200 countries. It sells this structured, taxonomy-tagged content stream to media organizations that want broader coverage at lower newsgathering cost and to market-data and financial-information providers who need to fill the gaps left by fragmented disclosure channels.
Jay Dang
Jay Dang (Jiacheng Dang) is the co-founder and CEO of Kaon (formerly FlowGPT), an AI-native content platform he launched in January 2023 just two days after founding the company - at age 20 during his freshman year at UC Berkeley. He subsequently dropped out to lead FlowGPT full-time, growing the platform to 3+ million monthly active users and 100,000+ AI applications across 110 countries before raising a $10M pre-Series A round in February 2024 led by Goodwater Capital and DCM Ventures. Under his leadership, the company rebranded to Kaon and launched Emochi, an AI storytelling app that reached #12 globally with 12.3M monthly active users by April 2026.