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Jennifer Addabbo Built a Fintech Consultancy by Making the Vendor Sit on the Other Side of the Table
She spent years selling financial technology. Then she crossed the table, built Engage fi around the buyer, and learned that the most useful growth strategy begins with people.
Gamal Wazni Built a Clinic Network by Making the Complicated Feel Local
A physician learned to think like a systems builder. The result was a Tampa practice that became a multistate outpatient platform - one clinic, one protocol and one carefully repeated experience at a time.
Garrett Waggoner
Garrett Waggoner is the co-founder and CEO of Cirkul, the Tampa-based hydration company whose reusable bottle and flip-dial flavor cartridges turned a college locker-room frustration into a business valued at $1 billion. A former Dartmouth safety who played professional football in the CFL and worked as a car valet to bootstrap the idea, Waggoner built Cirkul into a roughly $378M-revenue, 800-person operation by insisting on owning its own manufacturing.