When I arrived, the Inc. 5000 was a single list and a conference. I revamped its vetting framework, which let us spin off a new data product, and I was a founding contributor to its regional lists and its virtual community. I assigned features on its honorees, supported its launch as a podcast, helped develop and moderate its live conference programming and podcast episodes, and designed and negotiated some of the content partnerships behind it. Virtual attendance reached 70,000.
Along the way, I learned what founders sacrifice, sometimes including their sanity, to make payroll.
