Entrepreneurship in regulated industries rarely follows a clean arc. The obstacles are administrative as much as technical, and success depends as much on navigating institutional constraints as on engineering. Justin Fulcher built his first company inside one such environment, then went on to help reform another. His career connects a telemedicine startup in Asia to the upper levels of U.S. defense policy.RingMD's Model and Its MarketFulcher...
When someone has spent over 40 years leading major organizations, their perspectives on the CEO role deserve careful attention. Michael Polk, whose career has spanned global giants like Kraft, Unilever, and Newell Brands before landing him at the helm of a smaller private company, has developed a framework for leadership that accounts for both the timeless and the changing.The Pressure Cooker of Public MarketsPolk spent years operating under the...
The American energy sector has gone through wrenching changes over the past two decades from the shale revolution to the LNG export boom to the push for carbon capture and alternative fuels. Through each of those shifts, Kelcy Warren positioned Energy Transfer not just to survive, but to lead.Reading the Market EarlyIn 2014, Warren was publicly discussing the directional shift in U.S. hydrocarbon flows from imports entering through Gulf Coast...