But Can He Reinvent the Restaurant?
Phil Libin’s Next Startup? Bringing Michelin-Starred Chefs to Bentonville
The serial founder is testing out a curious concept. Is it a pop-up, a festival, or a foodie club? And is it coming to ? (Inc.com, June 2025)

Helping Main Streets, Not Sending CEOs to Space
Bookshop Achieved the Impossible Against Amazon. Now It’s Coming for E-Books
In just five years, the platform has made a profit while giving $31 million to brick-and-mortar bookstores. Next up, taking on Amazon’s 76 percent of the e-book market. (Inc.com, January 2025)

Made In The USA
A T-Shirt Was Grown, Spun, Knit, and Made Entirely in America. It Took Only 4 Years
Imogene + Willie set out to make a single-origin T-shirt and learned some powerful lessons about managing supply chains in a trade war. (Inc.com, May 2025)

Jennifer Garner's Mission
Once Upon a Farm Has an Audacious, Mission-Driven Plan for Hypergrowth
Even a major celebrity like Garner and an organic foods pioneer like her co-founder John Foraker have growing pains when scaling a fresh baby food brand. Now, can their mission keep up? (Inc. magazine cover story, Winter 2023)

Master of Her Own Universe
If you know of Dany Garcia, it's likely because of her role as Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson's ex-wife and business manager.
But Garcia has a new game plan--and she's putting herself front and center. (Inc. magazine cover story, Winter 2023)

Soldier. Founder. Revolutionary
She's a Soldier and a Founder on a Singular Mission: Open as Many Doors as Possible for Women
With steel honed in the military, serial entrepreneur Phyllis Newhouse is giving financial power to those who've never had it. (Inc. magazine cover story, October 2021.)

First Magazine Cover Ever Featuring a Pregnant Founder (!)
Flush With Funding, And Superfans: Can The Wing Make It?
My cover profile of Audrey Gelman and her incredibly Instagram-able, then beloved co-working company, as it was on the cusp of rapid expansion—but and faced headwinds. (Inc. magazine cover story, October 2019)

Virality, With Balletic Coordination, on the Campaign Trail
Reddit and the God Emperor of the Internet.
If Barack Obama’s 2008 online presidential campaign was a well-oiled machine that made effective use of supporter data, analytics and social-media tools, the first presidential campaign of Donald Trump owed some degree of its success to an online mob of rabid, self-organized supporters. (The New York Times, November 2016)

Bringing Humanity To Work, Profitably
Why This Company Hires Refugees—and It’s Not About Politics.
My cover-story interview with Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and chief executive of Chobani. (Inc. magazine, Best in Business, 2018)

Away’s Early Days
They Told Jennifer Rubio to Get an MBA. She Started a Billion-Dollar Company Instead.
Away’s co-founder describes her unconventional path to $300 million in revenue--and what happened when her company almost went out of business. (Inc. magazine cover, July/August 2019)

An Startup Origin of the Sustainable-Food Movement
They Could Have Taken the Money and Run. Instead, They Became Evangelists in the Corporate Sustainability Movement.
A profile on Gary Erikson and Kit Crawford, the founders of Clif Bar.

These hold up! From the archives:

Resistance Is Futile
This profile of Uber founder Travis Kalanick for Inc. magazine was the first that ran in a major, general-interest publication. It also delves into the complex regulatory environment Uber was entering in 2013. 

How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet
Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-old multimillionaire. Here's how he did it. 

The Entrepreneur Behind Aereo
Chet Kanojia is an audacious leader, to say the least. This profile is an examination of the personal history that led to Kanojia's unique management style. 

The Great URL Wars
High stakes. False identities. Cloak-and-dagger tactics. What some founders did to score their Web addresses.

Why I Love Giving Second Chances--to People and Machines
Michael Dadashi uses his electronics resale business to save lives, literally, by hiring recovering alcoholics to work for his company.