After years spent building a telemedicine RingMD and later advising the Pentagon on procurement reform, Justin Fulcher has turned attention toward a less visible but increasingly discussed problem: the resilience of supply chains for critical materials, including rare earth elements. It is a natural extension of his earlier work rather than a sharp turn. Justin […]

Fortune 500 companies do not typically outsource their audio to a one man operation working out of a converted garage. Yet that is exactly where much of Podcraft Media Lab‘s client list begins, and it is a testament to how far founder Greg Soros has taken his boutique production house since leaving a senior producer […]

Few companies in the domestic energy business can point to five continuous decades of operation, but Gulf Coast Western counts 1970 as its founding year. Based in Dallas, the firm has spent that time exploring, developing, and acquiring oil and gas reserves concentrated in the Gulf Coast region, a footprint that now extends across Texas, […]

Long before Greg Soros became known for his measured approach to podcast automation, he trained at Berklee College of Music and worked in senior roles at established media companies. That background shows up in how the podcaster now runs Podcraft Media Lab, a production house built out of what started as a converted garage studio […]

Greg Soros Author has spent more than fifteen years writing for young readers, and in that time he has settled on a question he believes matters more than any other in children’s fiction. Rather than asking what a character wants, Soros argues that authors should ask what a character needs to learn. That shift in […]

Tax treatment rarely tops the list of reasons someone gets excited about an investment, but for oil and gas joint ventures it can be one of the more persuasive details. Qualified partners in a Gulf Coast Western venture can write off 100% of drilling expenses and production income against their ordinary income, a benefit current […]

Matthew Fleeger didn’t inherit his role at Gulf Coast Western without putting in the years first. He joined the family business in the mid-1980s, shortly after finishing a business administration degree at Southern Methodist University, and spent eight years learning the operation from the inside out, from financial planning to sales and marketing. Then he […]

Trustworthiness is the quality most families say they want from a wealth manager. But according to Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, very few people know how to evaluate it before committing to a relationship. Gold, who has advised entrepreneurs, business owners, and multigenerational families for more than 25 […]

Not every children’s author thinks systematically about the reader waiting at home. Greg Soros does. His approach to writing for young people is grounded in a clear theory of what children’s books should accomplish a theory he has refined over more than 16 years of writing and community engagement. At the center of that theory […]

Michael Gold has a pointed way of framing the central challenge in private wealth management. Families with real financial complexity are often surrounded by professionals who are excellent at their individual jobs and entirely ignorant of what the others are doing. Gold founded Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut to address that structural failure. Over […]