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Jerald Kent and the art of starting again
He helped build Charter, left, and built again. From cable systems to data centers, Jerald “Jerry” Kent’s career turns on a surprisingly durable asset: the people willing to join him for another round.
The Carrier That Sold Itself and Kept the Towers
For 40 years UScellular chased signal into the parts of America the big carriers ignored. Then it did the math, sold the customers to T-Mobile, and turned itself into a tower company.
Arcee AI
Arcee AI is a San Francisco-based open intelligence lab that builds small, efficient, US-made language models enterprises can own, customize and run inside their own infrastructure. Founded in 2023 by former Hugging Face and Roboflow operators, the company pioneered practical techniques like model merging (via its acquisition of mergekit) and Spectrum training, and has expanded from small language models into its own open-weight Arcee Foundation Model family, the Trinity mixture-of-experts models, and agentic products such as Arcee Conductor and Arcee Orchestra. Its pitch: smaller, domain-adapted models that rival frontier systems at a fraction of the cost while keeping data private.