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Lisa Purdum Has Spent 25 Years Making the First Date Less Accidental
Long before swiping became a reflex, Lisa Purdum was interviewing singles face to face. Her career is a study in what technology still struggles to supply: context, candor, and the nerve to give a promising person another hour.
Iva Teixeira Is Taking Beauty R&D Out of the Spreadsheet Era
She arrived in America at 19 with $3,000, learned how large companies make decisions, and found an industry still keeping formulas in Excel. Her answer was to turn cosmetic chemistry into connected software.
Blake Marchand Put a Bar in a Dispensary - Then Let the Neighborhood Take a Seat
A real estate operator spent two years wrestling with permits, risked his savings, and turned a restaurant habit into March and Ash’s defining idea: make a complicated category feel like a place where people can linger, ask questions, and choose for themselves.
Adam Stettner Bet His Second Act on Cannabis’s Missing Clock
After decades in conventional lending, Adam Stettner walked into an industry conventional lenders avoided. His wager is that useful capital does more than arrive - it keeps time with the business using it.