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“I WILL DO everything in my power to personally hurt you.” It was spoken with enough anger that I did one of those movie-scene things and took the phone from my ear to look at it before pressing it, nervously, back to my cheek. “I promise you, Scott—

HAVING WORKED on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, Paul Chittenden knows firsthand the sort of cast-iron backbone that’s required to wrestle heavy, oil-slick equipment in harsh conditions. That’s why, when naming his oil and gas workgear company

When Mike Salguero met Michael Jellinek at a company offsite, he knew he’d finally found someone to help him work through the issues that affect how he interacts with people daily. A licensed psychiatrist and executive coach, Jellinek has now been wo

“Stress has been a part of my life for a long time. I began my career on Wall Street as a credit derivatives trader, and I was at Ground Zero with my husband on 9/11. He developed an autoimmune disease that lasted for three years, during which time I

Amber Venz Box was a designer and personal shopper-turned blogger when, in 2011, at the age of 23, she founded the influencer-commission network RewardStyle. By 2021, the Dallas-based company had expanded into a global influencer-marketing platform,

With an engineering degree from India, Sudhir Gupta never expected that an entry-level cleaning job in a New York City mom-and-pop perfume shop would change his life. Gupta’s goal when coming to the United States in 1992 was to earn money for a maste

AFTER SELLING his home-design startup, FreeGreen, in 2014, Ben Uyeda decided to commit to his passion full time, making DIY furniture projects for his YouTube channel, HomeMade Modern. From past experience, Uyeda knew that creative ventures are hard

When you think about the future of meetings, what needs fixing? At Calendly, we think about meetings in three distinct phases: scheduling, preparation, and follow-up. We call this “the meeting life cycle.” Automation is going to change all three phas

Even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was clear that a foundational transformation was underway in the U.S. labor market. The pace of change has only accelerated over the past two years, leading up to what has been dubbed the “Great Resi

The same strengths that powered 35 years of growth for American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) enabled it to turn the Covid-19 crisis into a time of positive change. “Every year we’ve been in business, it’s been about taking the next step forwar

When L.A.’s pleasantly alliterative Staples Center was renamed the goth-tinged Crypto.com Arena in late 2021, some fans considered it an upgrade. After all, the $700 million deal meant LeBron’s house would no longer be sponsored by the purveyor of Po

Reaching $1 million in sales is a milestone that can take years to achieve. For Emma Grede, it took one day. In 2016, Grede’s size-inclusive denim brand, Good American, sold $1 million of product within hours of launching. By the midafternoon, the co

Welcome to the 2022 Inc. Regionals, our celebration of the fastest-growing companies in America by geographic area-economic hometown heroes of the first order. A local take on our Inc. 5000, this annual ranking features entrepreneurial out-performers

4,639 % Two-year growth rate Miami Andrea Lisbona, founder and CEO Southeast ranking: No. 1 Andrea Lisbona grew up in Barcelona, where her family owned a business that imported American goods and distributed them in Europe. One product that caught he

2.281% Two-year growth rate Boise, Idaho Jessica Rolph, co-founder and CEO Rocky Mountain ranking: No. 2 Jessica Ralph’s foray into motherhood in 2010 meant getting deluged by overly titillating toys made from petrochemicals. That didn’t sit right wi

9,114 % Two-year growth rate Noblesville, Indiana Charles Livingston, co-founder and CEO Midwest ranking: No. 2 Charles Livingston may be a chiropractor by training, but the source of his success resides in his gut. After running a supplements busine

2,431 % Two-year growth rate Solana Beach, California Katherine Zabloudil, co-founder and CEO Pacific ranking: No. 4 As its name suggests, the Vertical Collective offers to do all things for direct-to-consumer brands, from creative direction and prod

1,268 % Two-year growth rate Phoenix Jamie Baxter, co-founder and CEO Southwest ranking: No. 7 Jamie Baxter and Chris Loeffler launched Qwick in 2019 to solve the hospitality industry’s perennial headache of staff retention. The app let hiring manage

2,931 % Two-year growth rate New York City Rosie Mattio, founder and CEO Northeast ranking: No. 5 Rosie Mattio knows what sells. She was living in Seattle doing publicity for a cannabis cookbook in 2013, just after Washington became the first state t

SHE HAS LISTENED intently, nodded appropriately, even occasionally furrowed her brow to telegraph that she’s deeply invested in what is being said. But seven minutes into the Zoom cherry juice meeting, Bethenny Frankel knows it’s time to get down to

Every deal Frankel does must check two boxes: She needs to enjoy the work and to drive most of the decisions. “If things are not enjoyable to me, no matter how much money I’m making, I don’t want to be doing that,” she says. Case in point: She recent

COMPANY Tiff’s Treats CO-FOUNDERS Tiffany Chen Leon Chen The idea for their cookie business hatched after she stood him up for a date. Apparently, there were no hard feelings. Chen remembers sitting on a plastic bucket turned upside down over a drain

THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF Pleasure Point stands on cliffs overlooking one of the more famous surf breaks in California, a menacing swell that locals call Sewers. Some four miles from the Santa Cruz boardwalk, the break takes its name from an old underwater

Shortly after the sale of his second company—the communications hardware maker Acme Packet, which Oracle acquired for $2.1 billion in 2013—Andy Ory came to realize something about computer networks: They were built the wrong way. Originally designed