Problem Solvers

Most hit makers never make a second hit. Bing Gordon cracked the code. As part of the founding team at Electronic Arts, he helped build Madden, The Sims, and SimCity, and learned exactly why people return to a product (or don’t). His first question for any business is a strange o ...  Show more

KIND bar founder and Shark Tank investor Daniel Lubetzky has a new obsession. It’s a nasal strip. When his team at Camino Partners first pitched him on Intake Breathing, his reaction was “What are you guys smoking?” Then he saw the data. He hasn’t seen numbers like it since KIND’ ...  Show more

Flowers for Dreams gives away 25% of its profits. In the flower business, where margins are already brutal. Co-founder Steve Dyme sketched that number on a bar napkin 15 years ago, and he’s kept it through investor pushback and on-air skepticism from Megyn Kelly. The result is mo ...  Show more

Anthony Pompliano built an AI financial assistant people loved. Then his most engaged users started costing him too much money. That’s a good problem to have. But it’s still a problem. His solution came from an unlikely place. Olive Garden’s breadsticks. Here’s how Silvia cut cos ...  Show more