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Growing Your Business

How boutique fitness founders build for balance

Fitness club founders and operators are navigating a growing tension between pricing, models, and accessibility.

Jamila Huxtable
Headshot of Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, a white man with short dark brown hair slicked to one side wearing dark-framed glasses and a forest green button down shirt smiling widely at the camera.
Growing Your Business

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on Rivian’s make-or-break moment

Scaringe talks about stepping back and letting Rivian’s “really well-operating teams” take the lead.

Jordyn Grzelewski
Photo of Alexandria Diggs, a Black woman with dark middle-parted hair, smiling and posing in front of her cinnamon bun stand, with purple banners and balloons.
Growing Your Business

How this entrepreneur turned home baking into a rising business

Alexandria Diggs turned home baking into Lou’s Buns, a DC storefront built on community support, creative flavors, and hard-won lessons in growing a food business.

Jamila Huxtable
Founder Eyal Cohen with the Humble Hauler in the background
Growing Your Business

Humble Robotics founder credits his human network for his AV startup's success

Humble emerged from stealth in April after locking in a $24 million seed funding round.

Jordyn Grzelewski
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Growing Your Business

How these founders are tackling Detroit’s freight traffic

Funding from the Toyota Mobility Foundation is helping three founders scale their businesses.

Jordyn Grzelewski
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Growing Your Business

Gatby’s founder saw a business in skyrocketing energy bills

How Ben Thomas built and scaled a tool that helps consumers find the lowest residential energy rate.

Tricia Crimmins
Headshot of Felicia Curcuru, a woman with side-parted black hair tucked behind one ear, smiling at the camera.
Growing Your Business

What Binti’s co-founder has learned from building SaaS for social workers

The startup, which builds software for child welfare offices, just landed funding from Melinda French Gates’s firm.

Patrick Kulp

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