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Phil Green and the Compound Interest of Staying Put
He joined Frost in 1980 and became its CEO 36 years later. Phil Green’s Texas story runs through bank branches, a stack of employee comments and a guitar shared with his daughter.
August Troendle and the business of staying
He founded Medpace in Cincinnati in 1992, stayed through changes of ownership, and took it public. August Troendle’s story turns on a quieter kind of ambition: building an organization that can keep growing together.
Aly Kassim-Lakha and the business of staying
After Goldman Sachs and Advent International, Aly Kassim-Lakha built Aspen Standard Wealth around permanent ownership. His pitch to advisory founders: room to grow, with their names still on the door.
Will Chance and the work between the wins
From Princeton rowing to Alpine Investors, Will Chance has gravitated toward the work that helps a team improve. As CEO of Atlas, he now helps build the people, systems, and growth plans that follow an acquisition.
Kevin Indig Learned Search by Building a Gaming Website. Now He Studies What Happens When Search Stops Sending Clicks.
A teenage tournament site set Kevin Indig on a path through Atlassian, G2 and Shopify. Today his Growth Memo asks a harder question: what does growth mean when an answer engine keeps the visit for itself?
The Influencer Who Became Her Own Sales Deck
Nioly Media Group does not merely sell social-media posts. It sells a staircase from obscurity to attention - and its founder is both the architect and the showroom.
uSERP Learned the Most Valuable Link Is the One You Can Measure
The Denver agency began with one client, a makeshift website and no outside capital. Its bet was simple: a backlink should behave less like a trophy and more like a line on the income statement.
The Private Equity Firm That Refuses to Fire the Founder
For 40 years, RLH Equity Partners has bet on a contrarian idea in private equity: that the founder is the asset, not the problem. Here is how a $1.2 billion Los Angeles firm turned 'high touch meets high tech' into a portfolio worth $4.2 billion in exits.
Thenuka Karunaratne
Thenuka Karunaratne is the CEO and co-founder of daydream, a San Francisco startup building an AI-native agency for organic search that pairs SEO agents with human growth experts. He started making money from affiliate websites in high school, bootstrapped a streaming-search business called Flixed through college using programmatic SEO, and in September 2023 launched daydream with co-founder Shravan Rajinikanth. The company raised a $15M Series A in April 2026 led by WndrCo, bringing total funding to roughly $21M.
Marcel Santilli
Marcel Santilli is the CEO and Co-Founder of GrowthX AI, a San Francisco-based 'service-as-software' company that combines expert-led strategy with AI workflows to drive organic growth for B2B companies. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Santilli spent 15+ years as a CMO and marketing executive at companies including IBM, HP/HPE, HashiCorp, Scale AI, and Deepgram, helping scale a combined $1B+ in ARR across three unicorns. After spending over 1,000 hours encoding marketing workflows into AI at Deepgram, he co-founded GrowthX AI in September 2024 with CTO Daniel Lopes. The company reached $7M+ ARR profitably in under 12 months — using only its own methodology, zero paid ads — before raising a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures in May 2025.
Nick Eubanks
Nick Eubanks is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketing executive, and distribution-first strategist who has built and sold multiple businesses, scaled agencies to 100+ clients serving the UFC and Nestle, co-founded Traffic Think Tank (acquired by Semrush for $1.8M), and now serves as Global CMO at Digistore24 while operating two investment vehicles. His core thesis - that distribution is the last competitive advantage that survives AI - is reshaping how founders and marketers think about sustainable growth.