
After years inside proprietary enterprise software, Corey Hulen made a sharp turn toward open source. The result is a career built around a plain but demanding idea: the people doing critical work should control the place where they talk about it.

From a Florida governor's communications office to Mattermost's first C-suite marketing post, Leigh Dow has built a career translating complicated systems for people who cannot afford confusion.

After two decades selling the value of systems most people never see, MCIM’s chief marketing officer now tells the story of software built to keep data centers boring, reliable and on.
Arsenal Growth Equity does not hunt for the loudest software company in the room. It looks for the one already doing $5 million-plus in revenue, growing 25% a year and keeping 90% of its customers - then writes a check designed to preserve control.