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This is Capitalism: Up Close, Inspired, Explained

Aug 23, 2017

David Callis was young rising star in the insurance industry. His specialty was global risk. One day, he realized he was being hit by bills and charges for things that he’d forgotten he’d ever signed up for. That was the genesis of his entrepreneurial idea — a company called Hiatus, which uses big data to see what...


Aug 16, 2017

Sandy Hillman has been burnishing her reputation as one of the nation’s top communications professionals for over three decades. Her Baltimore-based firm helps speak for brands such as Under Armour, Caesars Entertainment, and Walmart, but Sandy Hillman is even better known in the world of travel and tourism for...


Aug 9, 2017

Marc Gorlin is a serial entrepreneur, whose entrepreneur father started him hustling with the advice, right out of college, not to find a job, but to find a deal he could grow and develop. Marc did so, four times to date, with great success in each venture. Marc explains how Roadie, his latest and current venture, came...


Aug 9, 2017

Ray Hoffman interviews Warren Stephens about the history of Stephens Inc., and Northwest Arkansas. The difficult effects of the Great Depression on a rural community sparked the rise of tough entrepreneurs who became the industrialists of the area, and brought prosperity to replace poverty. Many of the great Arkansas...