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David Kestenbaum Is Betting That Biology Can Learn to Keep the Factory Open
After helping turn beer, e-commerce and venture capital into repeatable systems, Cauldron Ferm's co-founder and CFO is applying the same discipline to microbes, steel tanks and the stubborn economics of making things at scale.
Matthew Kennard Is Counting What Happens After the Workshop
The BetterLesson CEO came up through finance, learned education by visiting classrooms, and now insists that professional learning must answer a harder question: what changed for students?
The Agency That Starts Before the Ad
MarketVision built a business by noticing the moment before a campaign begins: when a frozen biscuit feels like guilt, insurance feels like homework, or public-health advice feels impossible to ask. Its answer is to listen first - and let culture change the brief.
The $2,000 Bet That Learned to Move a City
K Harvey Brand Partners began with $2,000 and a 24-year-old founder. Thirty years later, its sharpest work still begins the same way: find the human problem hiding inside the public one.
The Three Words That Became San Antonio's Reflex
A tiny San Antonio agency sold a three-word idea nobody found remarkable. Twenty-seven years later, the city still says it - and the method behind it now helps public institutions change names, minds and momentum.
Geekdom Built a Home for Startups. Now Comes the Hard Part.
The San Antonio community helped founders find one another. Its next chapter asks whether those connections can help a young business find enough customers to survive.
John Erwin Built a 20-Person Bet Into a Healthcare Switchboard
He spent 15 years learning how conversations move people. Then he carried that lesson into healthcare, where the next useful action can matter more than the cleverest software.
Huw Edwards Built a Career on Knowing the Numbers - Then Learned to Ask Better Questions
After Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Harvard, Bridgewater and three founder chapters, Huw Edwards changed the unit of measure. His work now turns on a harder calculation: what is a leader actually trying to build, and why?
The Firm That Turned a Dead Brewery Into a Business Model
Kit Goldsbury sold a hot-sauce company to Campbell Soup, then spent two decades proving that a good meal can rebuild a piece of a city. In 2024, for the first time, Silver Ventures is letting outsiders buy in.
Caroline Churchill and the Quiet Work of Making Finance Legible
Across four asset managers and more than three decades, Caroline Churchill has worked on a stubborn problem: how to turn financial choice into language people can use. Her path from journalism school to Victory Capital's executive ranks now runs through San Antonio itself.
Kimberly Menzer Is Building a Marketing Career Where Fashion Meets Data
Her public resume is brief, but its sequence is revealing: social strategy, execution, marketing analytics, data analysis and visualization. Kimberly Menzer's career offers a quiet case study in how retail leadership is being rebuilt for a measurable age.
The Marketer Who Told a 156-Year-Old Bank to Stop Looking Like a Bank
How a Southwest Airlines operator turned Blue Shield brand chief ended up convincing one of Texas's oldest banks that not looking like a bank was the whole point.
How a 25-Cent Burger From Corpus Christi Turned Into a Texas Religion
Founded on the promise of a burger big enough to need two hands, Whataburger spent 75 years turning a single Corpus Christi stand into one of America's most fiercely defended regional brands. Now, with new ownership and a national expansion plan, the orange-and-white stripes are showing up in places that never had them.
Victory Capital
How a management buyout out of a Cleveland bank turned into a $300-billion-plus asset manager that collects boutiques the way other firms collect logos.
Pineapple Products
Pineapple Products is a direct-to-consumer health supplement company that builds and operates a portfolio of consumer wellness brands. Founded by Brett Allcorn, it started as classroom seminars in New York City and grew into a house of brands that pairs original product formulations - including probiotics with unique metabolic strains - with strong storytelling and partnerships with doctors, personalities, and influencers. The company creates, markets, and oversees smaller brands under a single parent, aiming to build products it believes don't yet exist in the market.
Robbins Schrader
Robbins Schrader is the co-founder and CEO of SafeRide Health, a San Antonio-based technology company that runs non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for the country's largest Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and provider programs. A former US Navy officer and Boston Consulting Group project leader with a Wharton MBA, he started the company in 2016 with his brother Whit Schrader and Ben Salter to fix healthcare's hardest mile: getting vulnerable patients to the care they need. Under his leadership SafeRide now coordinates more than a million rides a year and Schrader was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Gulf South Award winner.
SafeRide Health
SafeRide Health is a technology and services company rebuilding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. Founded in 2016 by brothers Robbins and Whit Schrader with Ben Salter, SafeRide pairs proprietary scheduling and dispatch software with a nationwide network of 600+ credentialed transport providers and rideshare partners to get vulnerable patients to the right care at the right time. The company now delivers more than one million rides per month across all 50 states and has been profitable since 2024.