Inc. Magazine - September 2022

In this issue

The Inc. 5000
Our annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, replete with stories of hair-raising pivots, brazen pitches, and the triumph of dogged persistence.

Athletic Brewing Co.
How a former trader made moderation cool, and built a new market in the process.

Delivering Measurable ROI in Multiple Ways

Offloading HR responsibilities helps small and midsize business owners save money and focus on growth

10 mins

Manifest Your Destiny

The day I committed to building a 100-year-old business is the day my company's growth took flight.

3 mins

How Fast-Growth Companies Refuse to Lose

The most successful businesses not only build quality into their products, but also tap their customers for help.

5 mins

He helped put the craft beer industry on the map. She's taking it from Sugar Hill to Rocky Mount and beyond

There's hard-earned wisdom on tap as Sam Calagione, founder of four-time Inc. 5000 company Dogfish Head Brewery, talks with Harlem Brewing Company founder Celeste Beatty on extending opportunity to new suds-men and suds-women.

5 mins

Blockfi's Great Rise and Even Greater Escape

It was the country's fastest-growing private company until the crypto winter blanketed the sector. Here's how an innovative financial startup is succeeding through good, old-fashioned fundamentals.

10+ mins

MY HOW I PERSUADED MOM AND DAD TO LET ME RUN OUR HOME-GROWN BEVERAGE BRAND

In 2012, to help her mother through chemotherapy, Jesslyn Rollins's father began developing a hydration drink meant to work like an over-the-counter IV.

3 mins

How I Reimagined the Farmers' Market to Deliver Local Food Everywhere

A fourth-generation Indiana farm kid, Nick Carter, 39, grew up expecting to join the family business. But by the time he was in high school in the late 1990s, he knew that was not a viable option.

3 mins

How I Built a Home Care Company During a Health Care Labor Shortage

Evalena "Barbara" Flournoy was none too pleased when her youngest sons, identical twins Joshua and Caleb, dropped out of college in 2007 to start their own company.

3 mins

HOW I TURNED A FAMILY HEALTH CRISIS INTO A THRIVING BUSINESS

Christopher Castillo, 36, was driving home to Orlando one June day in 2017, after a round of sales calls up in Gainesville, when he rang his father. Rick, 59, sounded frustrated.

3 mins

OFF THE CHART

A former nurse builds a health care unicorn in just four years and changes her profession forever. The pulse-quickening case history of Cherie Kloss's SnapNurse.

10+ mins

HOW I GOT SWEATY AND MUDDY AND MADE NONALCOHOLIC BEER COOL

Bill Shufelt, 39, started his craft beer business in 2017 in a moribund segment of an otherwise booming industry: non-alcoholic brews. Shufelt bet that there were many non-drinkers like him who wanted lagers and IPAs that tasted better than water, and were fit for fancy dinners as well as the finish line.

3 mins

How I Reimagined the Workplace—And the Workforce

Stephanie Nadi Olson started her meteoric ad-sales career when Microsoft recruited her straight out of Georgia Tech as its youngest account manager. By the age of 28, she'd claimed an executive's chair in Silicon Valley. Amid the always-on stress of her job, she started a family, and that's when she came to see how the very structure of the traditional workplace is sidelining millions of talented people.

3 mins

How I Took a Vacation and Launched А Соmраnу

Andy Hill went on vacation in Cuba in 2018, and while the beaches were great, he's not one to lounge. Instead, Hill went around saying "¡Hola!" and-with the help of a friend who actually speaks Spanish-peppering locals with questions about business opportunities. He is, after all, a guy who has founded 12 companies since his college days.

3 mins

Battle Plan

This American tech company CEO didn't lose hope when Russia invaded Ukraine, where he had 150 employees. Instead, he joined them.

10+ mins

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