A century-old consultancy is putting AI in orbit and buying its way deeper into defense technology. Its real business is making new tools work where the usual assumptions fall apart.
The San Francisco firm has a blunt diagnosis for stalled B2B growth: before you fire the seller, inspect the habitat. Its embedded operators rebuild the machinery around revenue - then leave it under the client's roof.
MDO Holdings started with a gym and grew into something harder to label: part operator, part investor, part landlord. Its most revealing product may be the connective tissue between the businesses it owns.
Boomtown started by coaching founders. A decade later, it helps large organizations find, test, fund and deploy the ideas their own machinery tends to miss.