How A $1,200 Vacuum Cleaner Turned Greg’s Moneymaker Into A Moonshot
EXCERPT FROM WORTH MAGAZINE: Greg Theroux was having a moment. The Des Moines, Iowa based-entrepreneur was sitting in a classroom in Oxford University at the annual Oxford Innovation Conference for American Entrepreneurs listening to a distinguished lecturer talking...
How One Small Dog Ran With The Big Dogs And Won
For the latest Birthing of Giants podcast I interviewed Alex Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Azulle and a graduate of the Birthing of Giants Fellowship program. Azulle is a Miami, Florida based manufacturer of mini PC’s – a low power, fanless PC that’s right on...
How Jim McCann Is Riding A Technology Wave To Success
When 1-800-Flowers.com founder, Jim McCann, bought a single flower shop in Manhattan, he knew that he wanted to be more than just a florist. Forty years later his small NYC shop is now a $1 Billion dollar giant. With his recent decision to move from CEO to Executive...
How Bill Roark Takes Stakeholder Capitalism To The Stratosphere
This week I’m shining a spotlight on Birthing of Giants Fellowship graduate, Bill Roark. Sixteen years ago, Bill co-founded Torch Technologies, a technical services provider for the U.S. Defense Department. His mission was to create a company where every employee...