Best in Business
A few months into the pandemic, Inc.’s business side asked for a new recognition program, launched in two months.
Some of My Better Ideas
I build programs that turn audiences into communities, and communities into businesses. Usually from scratch, usually with a lean budget and on a tight deadline.
Built from Scratch
One Insider
Warner Bros. Discovery lived a short, historic life, from a landmark merger to its sale to Skydance.
Ignition Schools
I built a ranking of the universities doing the most for entrepreneurship, working with data scientists and tech-transfer offices at more than 50 schools.
Surge Cities
This franchise put surprising places on the map. It grew out of a relationship I’d built with Startup Genome, whose researchers drew on thousands of data sets to rank the 50 U.S.
The Inc. Entrepreneurship Index
Small businesses make up 99.7 percent of U.S. employers, but the startup economy had no timely way to take its own pulse.
Built for Communities
Built Under Pressure
Steering a newsroom through 2020
The Inc. newsroom went into the pandemic down nine people.
A $69 billion acquisition under intense public scrutiny
With regulators, the press, players, and employees all watching, my people-first approach landed the company’s first major positive national feature after months of negative coverage, in The Washington Post.
The cover that changed overnight
Soon after our newsroom went remote for the pandemic, I learned our feature subject, Everlywell CEO Julia Cheek, was racing to build a scalable at-home Covid test, which became the first FDA-authorized standalone at-home Covid sample collection kit.
A founder’s biggest stages, on the way to a $4.2 billion valuation
Across two stints at Globalization Partners, including the run-up to its $200 million raise at a $4.2 billion valuation, I produced all of founder and CEO Nicole Sahin’s media: her website, her headshots, her Wikipedia page, and every stage she stepped onto.
Select Stories
“On His Birthday 20 Years Ago, Tom Lo Escaped the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He Vowed Never to Waste Another Day”
I wrote about my friend Tom’s journey out of the South Tower on 9/11, and it became one of my most-read pieces in eight years at Inc.
“Need to Relocate? Bring the House, Too”
When the Journal asked me to find the biggest active house moves in America, I called some old friends on Nantucket, and found the largest in the island’s history: a 10,000-square-foot house on wheels.
“The Most Important IPOs Aren’t Necessarily the Biggest”
Deep in Inc. 5000 season, and remembering my old boss, Martha Stewart, I wrote a story on a whim about IPOs that made history, and NPR invited me on All Things Considered to talk about it.