Rashad Robinson spent decades confronting technology companies, media executives and political leaders before he wrote a page about any of it. His new book, "From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter and Win," out July 28 from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, begins instead with his childhood in Riverhead, New York, according to an account published by the Daily Californian.Robinson, described in that account as...
Long before he ran a multibillion-dollar company, Michael Polk was a teenager in southern Connecticut with a homemade weather station in his yard. The son of parents who had recently arrived in the United States, he grew up watching his family value independence and hard work above nearly everything else. Though he came from a household full of musical talent, his own interests pointed toward math and science rather than the arts.That curiosity...
Yazan Al Homsi’s Due Diligence Approach from Vancouver For venture investors working with emerging technologies, enthusiasm is only one part of the equation. Yazan Al Homsi’s public comments suggest that disciplined due diligence remains central to how he evaluates opportunities from his base in Vancouver and across international markets. The Yazan Al Homsi portfolio describes a career that combines venture capital with earlier experience...
Inside Basel Holding's Approach to Company Building. Understanding Burak Basel means looking past any single announcement and toward the pattern of choices that built it. Burak Basel's evolving strategy offers one entry point into that pattern, showing how the organization has approached its work over time and why that approach has held up even as conditions around it have shifted. It is a useful starting point precisely because it resists the...
After stepping down from Newell Brands in 2019, Michael Polk could have stayed retired. Instead, he returned to the corporate world in 2020 as chief executive of Implus LLC, a privately held fitness accessories company owned by Berkshire Partners. Polk has described the move as a kind of homecoming, one that reconnected him with parts of the job he had drifted away from during his years running a public company.Before Michael Polk Newell Brands,...