The founders of these startups are delivering solutions to our nation’s biggest problems–and growing their businesses like crazy doing it. From health care saviors to boomtown builders, here’s what it takes to run a company with skyrocketing growth.
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$358 billion in 2022 revenue. 1,187,266 jobs created. And 5,000 examples of how to scale your business. Nowhere else will you find a list of companies with a greater impact on the U.S. economy. $358 billion in 2022 revenue. 1,187,266 jobs created. And 5,000 examples of how to scale your business. …
How this year's list of America's fastest-growing private companies measures up, year-over-year. A hint: pretty darn well. If today is any indication, tomorrow is looking pretty amazing. That may sound a bit starry-eyed to some, but we here at Inc. have a unique perspective. You see, we're steeped …
Brad Smith and Bill Frist created CareBridge to solve not one problem but two: how to rein in costs, and how to deliver better care to Medicare and Medicaid recipients. Bill Frist was already three or four careers deep--surgeon, senator, venture capitalist, environmentalist--when Brad Smith showed …
As CEO of the charter-transportation service CharterUp, Armir Harris is quick to shift gears to achieve fast growth. Armir Harris is on a bus. He's 9 years old, traveling with his mother and 12-year-old sister from the south Texas border to Boston. The trip, he's been told, will take nearly three …
Songfinch grew revenue an astronomical 23,991 percent while transforming the music industry, landing at No. 11 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. Over his nearly 25 years in the music industry -- as an audio engineer, a manager, and once even a rapper -- John Williamson, 43, has gained a bird's-eye view of …
How an NYC native went from a family hardware store to remaking the hardhat with his company, Defender Safety. Teddy Haggerty's reputation as a wunderkind began in high school, when the self- described nerd outfitted drones with cameras to take photos for real estate agents, netting $100,000 a …
With the aid of Hollywood veteran Jessica Biel, he set out to rewrite the script, founding KinderFarms. Jeremy Adams was worried. His 1-year-old daughter had spiked a 105-degree fever in the middle of the night, prompting the 46-year-old entrepreneur to call urgent care. Their advice: Find an …
Two friends from Indiana had a dream: to bring premium coffee to the supermarket-and help at-risk youth. They started BLK and Bold. In the beginning, there was coffee. A lot of coffee-like, gallons and gallons, consumed on the many business trips Pernell Cezar took working in merchandising at Target …
Delivering produce as a Medicare benefit, Ashley Tyrner went from food stamps to growing a company that hit No. 100 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. FarmboxRx founder Ashley Tyrner, 39, sees healthy food as a form of health care. In 2014, she launched Farmbox Direct, which shipped boxes of fresh food anywhere …
Eco BCG founder Sergio Castillo boosted revenue 4,030 percent to hit No. 121 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. His secret? Getting plant managers on board. In 2009, Sergio Castillo stepped out of a corporate career in manufacturing with 3M to take over Eco BCG, the consultancy his father had started a decade …
Founder Michal Alter grew Visit.org's revenue 3,165 percent--No. 165 on the 2023 Inc. 5000--by delivering social-impact experiences for workers. By her late 20s, Michal Alter had graduated from the Israel Institute of Technology, completed her two years of military service, and started a promising …
This founder went from a gritty Orange County neighborhood to Hollywood, growing Nottingham Agency 1,920 percent. When Hollywood stars need to get the hype train rolling, an increasing number of them call on Ernest Dukes. As the founder of Los Angeles-based Nottingham Agency (2022 revenue: $5 …
Founder Anthony Lee beat rising interest rates with viral videos, growing Zap Mortgage's revenue 1,915 percent to land at No. 294 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. Anthony Lee, 50, missed his high school graduation, in 1991, because his daughter arrived that same day. To provide for his new family, he enlisted …
Michelle Penczak lost her job while she was pregnant. Then she founded Squared Away, and grew revenue 1,908 percent to reach No. 297 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. Michelle Penczak could see the look on prospective employers' faces when she told them her husband was a Marine Corps pilot. Like many military …
Sports media company SportsGrid grew revenue 1,888 percent by delivering viewers to gambling programming clients, claiming slot No. 300 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. In 2016, former venture capital investor Jeremy Stein won $1 million playing fantasy basketball. Then he won another $1 million playing …
When Amazon needs something fixed in Oklahoma City, it calls CEO Carson Tesch, who grew revenue for T&T Industrial 1,830 percent to land at No. 313 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. Carson Tesch, 49, found his fascination with building and fixing things early. Growing up in a union household in Milwaukee, …
Like Billy Beane with baseball, Kapco Futures founder Jeff Kaprelian brings a unique mathematical approach to a centuries old American institution: the cattle industry. While working as a commodities broker, Jeff Kaprelian, 38, spotted a problem in the cattle industry begging to be fixed. Ranchers, …
Charu Jain grew Gasochem's revenue 1,469 percent to land at No. 393 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. Charu Jain, 45, has had to jump through some pretty exacting hoops to win customers such as Ecolab, the USDA, and the U.S. Navy. Still, the biggest barrier to her ambition was actually living with her back in …
Exclusively inclusive: Founder Jessica Brooks has maintained brand integrity while growing revenue 1,296 percent to land at No. 446 on the 2023 Inc. 5000. When Jessica Brooks was a little girl, she cut up socks to make outfits for her Barbie dolls. But Brooks, 37, didn't fashion human clothes until …
Cindy and Anne Jordan run Pyx Health in honor of their daughter's legacy, and landed at No. 558 on the 2023 Inc. 5000, with 1,054 percent revenue growth. In 2017, Cindy and Anne Jordan had sold their health care referral startup and were enjoying early retirement in Tucson when they got a call that …
A call from Bumble inspired her to launch Balloon Therapy Events, a party decor company that blew up. While working as a school counselor in Dallas, Jessica Porter was known around her neighborhood as a big-time decorator, throwing over-the-top graduation and birthday parties for family and friends. …
Why sell vintage lighting fixtures in Manhattan when she could simply make her own? Kelly Aaron remembers the day a newly acquired pair of 1950s Italian chandeliers got snapped up in a heartbeat at the vintage furniture and lighting boutique she and her husband, Josh, owned in New York City's …
