When Michael Polk retired from Newell Brands in 2019, few anticipated he would return to the CEO role just a year later. But the pull of building something tangible proved stronger than the appeal of retirement. In 2020, Polk became CEO of Implus LLC, a private fitness accessories company backed by Berkshire Partners, and in doing so, began what he calls a "back to the future moment" in his professional life.Revisiting the Fundamentals of...
New York has become one of the world's most significant fintech hubs, with a concentration of payments companies, banking technology firms, and financial infrastructure providers that rivals Silicon Valley's consumer technology ecosystem in economic significance if not in cultural visibility. Within this environment, New York-based Thomas Priore has built Priority into a company that is genuinely significant — not just commercially but as a...
For most homeowners, their home is their largest single financial asset. Protecting that asset requires attention to the full range of threats that can affect its value and structural integrity — and pest activity is among the most significant and most commonly underestimated of those threats. Professional pest protection services are, in this light, an investment in the financial health of the home as well as the physical health of its...
Investors and analysts spend considerable time modeling content economics. They track production budgets, streaming subscriber counts, advertising revenue, and IP valuations. What they are spending less time on is the cost curve that AI is running through all of those numbers. John Chachas is paying attention.The veteran media banker and CEO of Inyo Broadcast Holdings, who has spent his career structuring transactions in American broadcasting...