Inc. Magazine – September 2019

PR OP ST YL IN G: AM Y^ E LIS E^ W ILS ON 38 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● PHOTOGRAPH BY HEAMI LEE Art of the Cart Baby-stroller ...

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Visionary Rich Dennis saw a way to build a huge business around an underserved community by giving African Americans a better cu ...

, HUSTLED , THE INC. INTERVIEW Richelieu Dennis In 1987, when civil unrest in Liberia brought him to America, Rich Dennis also b ...

42 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● ● ● ● Did it affect your family directly? Very directly and very personally. We lost a lot of e ...

I was selling shea butter to my class- mates. I would get supplies from my mother for my personal use. My ambition was to go bac ...

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So Progressive offers commercial auto and business insurance that makes protecting yours no big deal. Local Agent | ProgressiveC ...

CO UR TE SY CO MP AN Y^ 46 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● ● ● ● I still see it as a contradiction. But Unilever is willing to ste ...

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48 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL GEORGE Delicate Petals Prior to delivery, assembled bouquets are stored i ...

Flower Power In 2013, Ajay Kori was living in Washington, D.C., and smitten with a woman in Philadelphia. He didn’t love the lon ...

50 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● PHOTOGRAPH BY HEAMI LEE PR OP ST YL IN G: AM Y^ E LIS E^ W ILS ON Spinning Wheels “When you’re ...

THE PROMISE OF A SMARTER HOME, DELIVERED BY USPS. Every day, visionaries are creating the devices of the future, but they need p ...

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PHOTOGRAPH BY HEATHER STEN ● ● ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● INC. ● 53 I joined the Army in April 1997. After boot camp and school, I was s ...

CO UR TE SY SU BJE CT 54 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● ● ● ● and talking a little bit before we started working.  This kind of t ...

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56 ● INC. ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● ● ● PHOTOGRAPH BY HEAMI LEE PR OP ST YL IN G: AM Y^ E LIS E^ W ILS ON Put a Ring on It When it come ...

At Comcast, we didn’t build the nation’s largest Gig-speed network just to make businesses run faster. We built it to help them ...