Dr. Armin Tehrany — board-certified NYC orthopedic surgeon, founder of Manhattan Orthopedic Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty, and executive producer of the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film The Birth of a Nation. The long-form profile.
Walgreens Boots Alliance ($WBA, NASDAQ) — the largest U.S. retail pharmacy operator. ~8,700 U.S. stores, 2,000+ Boots stores in the UK, $148B FY24 revenue. The $10B Sycamore Partners take-private (March 2025), the Tim Wentworth reset, the $5.8B VillageMD write-down.
Apple isn't accustomed to getting negative feedback about one of its products.
Both JR and his wife Loren's entrepreneurial spirits pushed them to start their own enterprise, Market America, in 1992.
Eight Sleep, Whoop, Levels, Oura, Vuori, Alo, AG1, Therabody, Bombas, Olipop, Liquid Death, Function Health, Parsley, Ro, Hims & Hers — the B-tier and C-tier brands out-executing the Fortune 50 on staff health, and turning it into a recruiting weapon.
Three coffee chains, three completely different PR playbooks. A Q&A on how Starbucks, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and Caribou Coffee approach public relations, marketing, and reputation.
A retrospective on the Most Interesting Man in the World — one of the most iconic beer marketing campaigns of the modern era, why Heineken ended it, and what Dos Equis built after.
In the aging care industry, the reputation of being a trustworthy organization is vital.
Beer industry PR across Anheuser-Busch, Heineken, and Molson Coors — communications leadership, agency relationships, the Bud Light crisis, hard seltzer disruption, non-alcoholic premiumization, and how the category has been reshaped by AI discovery.
Sex sold for forty years. Then the record stopped fading. Calvin Klein 1995, Abercrombie, American Apparel, Victoria's Secret — and what replaced them. Plus the full playbook for cannabis, gambling, crypto, adult, spirits and firearms when the ads are blocked.
