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Heather Podesta Built a Firm. Then She Took Her Name Off the Door.
A law-firm partner left to build a business of her own. Nineteen years later, Heather Podesta’s story runs through tax policy, contemporary art, a borrowed word from The Crown, and the people trusted to carry the work forward.
Ileana Quintas Built a 30-Year Business Out of Making Complexity Clear
She began with one employee and an unfashionable conviction: difficult information should still be useful. Three decades later, that idea remains the operating system of IQ Solutions.
Blaine Butler Put a Saucer Under a Big Idea
She began with concrete, paint and a garage. More than two million designs later, Blaine Butler’s real product may be a reason to notice what is growing beside you.
The Lawyer Who Built a 10,000-Person Company Inside a Virtual Bar
Amy Pritchard traded courtrooms for comment sections and built ModSquad - a 10,000-Mod, 90-country moderation network - without raising a cent. She has been running a fully remote company since 2007, a decade before the rest of us learned the word.