
An engineer turned brand builder, Empathy's first CMO has spent two decades making new categories feel human. Her current brief may be the hardest one yet: earn attention without exploiting the moment.
The startup began with an app for the brutal paperwork after a death. Its bigger invention was persuading insurers and employers to put practical, human-guided care inside benefits people already have.

The Ark Financial founder has a simple diagnosis for entrepreneurial wealth: the experts may all be competent, but nobody owns the seams. His answer is an operating system for the business of the family.
The Austin firm turned a rich-family institution into an operating system for entrepreneurs. Its cleverest product is coordination - and its most useful lesson is that even a coordinator must be audited.