Hella Cocktail Co. co-founder and CEO Jomaree Pinkard quit his NFL consulting career and turned a hobby with his two best friends into a multimillion-dollar business.
After taking a second mortgage and maxing out credit cards, Brian Murphy has turned ReliaQuest from near failure into a $3.4 billion enterprise exploring an IPO.
The moves reflect a shift that Americans may not fully realize, away from the very idea of public health: doing the work that no individual can do alone to safeguard the population as a whole.