
From a college basketball captaincy to the marketing desk of a national bank, Holly Hynes has built a career around a disciplined idea: listen closely enough to make ordinary progress feel visible.
The stagecoach bank is allowed to grow again. Its next test is whether 174 years of reach, 33 million mobile customers and a rebuilt control system can turn old scale into useful momentum.
Carl Skanderup is the CEO of Carats & Cake and Bliss & Bone, two wedding-tech brands he runs with his wife Cindy. A former Wells Fargo director who once managed more than $1 billion in real-estate loans, he traded corporate finance for the messy craft of building companies in the wedding industry. His through-line is a hard-won lesson: the product is rarely the problem, the marketing is. He writes about it publicly on Substack, part confession, part field notes from 15 years of building and running businesses.