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John McNamara and the business of staying the course
From a California wire factory to a New Orleans investment firm, John McNamara has built a career around helping businesses take their next step. His other investments include a tuition-free school, seventh-grade financial lessons, and time at the finish line.
Kevin Priddy and the business of bringing people closer
A concrete contractor built PlanHub to make bidding less cumbersome. His next chapter, Priddy Spaces, brings the same practical question into the office: how do you make it easier for people to work together?
ProfitSolv Bought the Boring Software That Keeps Professional Firms Alive - Then Added Payments
The private-equity-backed company assembled a shelf of legal and accounting software, kept the specialist brands, and built payments into the daily work. Its bet: the least glamorous screen in a firm may be the most valuable one.
The Landlord Betting That America Still Needs to Buy Milk in Person
While the internet was busy declaring the shopping center dead, a West Palm Beach firm quietly assembled 14 million square feet of the stuff - and keeps selling it at a profit.
PlanHub
PlanHub is a cloud-based preconstruction platform that connects general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers during the bidding phase of construction projects. Built by contractors in 2008 and launched as a digital marketplace in 2015, it combines a nationwide network of 500,000+ construction professionals with bid management, project discovery, takeoff and estimation, and AI-driven tools so the right people find the right projects and win more work.