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Brian Solomon

  • NYU Stern School of Business
New York
As seen in: Medium, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, Flipboard, Audible Blog, WDBJ-TV (Roanoke, VA), Forbes Japan, WHSV-TV (Harrisonburg, VA), The Brown Daily Herald, Isthmus and
Covers:  online media, retail, nfl, money managers, beer, tech, billionaires, stocks, entrepreneurs, markets, sports
Product Manager @Google. MBA @NYUStern. Ex-journalist @Forbes. @Eagles fan and NFL stats armchair analyst.
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Shahid Khan: The New Face Of The NFL And The American Dream

Shahid Khan: The New Face Of The NFL And The American Dream

Forbes — With sweat and smarts, Pakistan-born Shahid Khan built a $3.4 billion manufacturing juggernaut from the ruins of an Illinois auto parts maker. To celebrate, he just bought one of the worst teams in the NFL, with the pledge of a similar turnaround. Only in America, folks. Driving down a dusty back road in Danville, Ill., Shahid Khan narrates the fall of American manufacturing. "The Allith-Prouty plant closed there. That was 1,400 jobs," he says, pointing out boarded-up buildings on our left. Some 300 people used to work at the welding plant next door. "Gone," he shrugs.
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The Wal-Mart Slayer: How Publix's People-First Culture Is Winning The Grocer War

The Wal-Mart Slayer: How Publix's People-First Culture Is Winning The Grocer War

Forbes — Family-run Publix is both the largest employee-owned company and the most profitable grocer in America. Those two facts are linked, and they might be the formula for fending off Bentonville's retail behemoth. Passing through Publix's sliding doors to escape the blistering Lakeland, Fla. heat is a welcome relief, but it isn't just the air-conditioning that jumps out at you. As you walk the aisles, bag boys and clerks in sage-green shirts and black aprons routinely smile and ask questions: "How are you today? Can we help you with anything?" When a middle-aged woman asks about a box of crackers, no aisle number is blurted out.
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David Green: The Biblical Billionaire Backing The Evangelical Movement

David Green: The Biblical Billionaire Backing The Evangelical Movement

Forbes — David Green insists God is the true owner of his $3 billion arts and crafts chain. Acting as His disciple, Green has become the largest evangelical benefactor in the world-with plans for unprecedented gifts once he's in heaven. Fresh off an inspection of Hobby Lobby's sprawling 5.5 million-square-foot distribution warehouse in Oklahoma City, the company's CEO, David Green, retreats to his office in the adjacent executive building, where he surrounds himself with a collection of homely elephant figurines. His coffee table is draped with a bird's-eye-view photograph of his corporate campus, annotated with scribbles in black marker that show the expansion under way.
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King Of Craft Beer: How Sierra Nevada Is Winning The Hops War

King Of Craft Beer: How Sierra Nevada Is Winning The Hops War

Forbes — Ken Grossman has survived his share of froth and burst bubbles in the 35-plus years since he cofounded Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Now 59, he still oversees the nation's largest private craft brewery, producing nearly 1 million barrels of beer a year and ringing up more than $200 million in sales. Leaning back in his office chair, dressed in a plaid shirt and black zip-up vest and surrounded by empty beer bottles and photos of grandkids, Grossman seems the very image of a self-satisfied patriarch. He's not. Back in 1978, when Sierra Nevada was created, there were only 45 independent breweries in America, following a long decline after Prohibition.
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Speed Demon: How 'Charming Charlie' Built A Billion-Dollar Fashion Chain In Under A Decade

Speed Demon: How 'Charming Charlie' Built A Billion-Dollar Fashion Chain In Under A Decade

Forbes — Charlie Chanaratsopon is a young man in a very great hurry. "I hate downtime!" exclaims the 35-year-old Thai-American, chopping the air for emphasis. With his slicked-back hair and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, he's always ready to get down to business-even as he weaves frantically in and out of Houston traffic in his black Mercedes S550, eager to show a visitor one of his stores. "I'd probably be the worst lawyer, worst doctor, worst engineer on the planet because of my ADD-ness," says Chanaratsopon (cha-na-ROT-suh-pon). No examples of botched cases, mangled surgeries or shoddy construction in his world.
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Meet Vox Media: The Digital Upstart That Wants To Be Conde Nast 2.0

Meet Vox Media: The Digital Upstart That Wants To Be Conde Nast 2.0

Forbes — What do you get when you mix a firebrand political blogger, an Internet innovator and a few million rabid sports fans? A valuable startup. Jim Bankoff is sitting in a Manhattan diner, rather than the Four Seasons or some other power spot, and he's nursing a single ginger ale, rather than a Bordeaux or martini. But that doesn't keep the CEO of Vox Media from delusions of grandeur. "We want Vox to be the preeminent modern media publisher," he says. "We look at what Condé Nast did in magazine publishing, and we can do that in digital publishing, meaning scale and quality and value."
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Invasion Of The Machines: iRobot Hunts Bombs, Cleans Floors, Now Wants To Heal You

Invasion Of The Machines: iRobot Hunts Bombs, Cleans Floors, Now Wants To Heal You

Forbes — As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside. But the 45-year-old iRobot cofounder and CEO isn't testing out a toy-he's putting a $100,000-plus piece of machinery to work, a remote-controlled 60-pound minitank with four cameras, rubber treads and a 6-foot extendable arm. Despite more than 25 years of robotics experience, Angle is still enchanted by the high-pitched squeal where the robot meets the road. But as he puts down the PackBot controller, his voice turns serious: "Every single EOD [explosive ordinance detonation] technician I've interviewed has started off saying, 'Thank you, I'd be dead without your robot.'
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The World's Youngest Billionaires: 29 Under 40

The World's Youngest Billionaires: 29 Under 40

Forbes — There are 1,426 billionaires in the world this year. They are the wealthiest of the wealthy. But only 29 members of this elite list are under 40 years old, with that exciting combination of money and youth. Those 29 have a total of $119 billion between them. Ten come from the technology sector, including four from social networking giant Facebook . Eleven come from the United States, the rest from countries abroad. Five are newcomers to the billionaire ranks.
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Billionaires' Tips For New Grads: Advice From Jobs, Oprah, Zuckerberg And More

Billionaires' Tips For New Grads: Advice From Jobs, Oprah, Zuckerberg And More

Forbes — Billionaires' Advice For New College Grads College students across the country will accept diplomas and step out into the "real world" for the first time this month. Some have jobs, many don't, but all are hopeful about what lies ahead. As to their first steps beyond the comfort of campus, whose advice should they follow? What lessons should they heed as they embark on this great journey of independence and self-sufficiency? How about listening to some of the most successful people anywhere: visionary business leaders who built empires from nothing and now rank among the wealthiest on the planet.
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