Fortune’s Path: the Blog

Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.

Sloane Scott: On Being a Self-Pay Patient and How to Create Shareholder Value

Sloane Scott has an amazing personal story. Along with being a 3x ovarian cancer survivor, she has led multiple health tech companies to successful exits as a strategic leader and communicator. She discusses navigating her cancer journey with no health insurance and, as a successful business leader, discusses how to create shareholder value. She lays out in a detailed and practical way how to navigate safe pay as a patient.

Currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Collette Health, she's seen healthcare from a business and patient perspective, and has lots of valuable insights to share on both.

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Eric Satz: The Case for Alternative Assets

Eric Satz, founder of Alto, an investment platform that allows individuals to invest their retirement accounts in alternative assets discusses his journey of building Alto from scratch and the challenges he faced along the way. He also talks about the fun and not-so-fun aspects of starting a business. Satz emphasizes the importance of building a strong team and having the support of family and loved ones when embarking on an entrepreneurial venture. Finally, Satz shares his thoughts on the financial industry, the value of alternative assets, and the role of luck in business success.

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The Ethics and Risks of Artificial Intelligence, and How to Hire the Right People

Data product advisor Sharon Chou and Fortune’s Path President Tom Noser discuss the ethics and risks of artificial intelligence, and how to hire the right people, with some lighter topics like quantum computing thrown in, on this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.

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What Software Makers Can Learn From Adidas

Software makers can learn a lot from companies like Adidas. In this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast, Tom talks with quality and compliance expert Norbert Teston, formerly Director of Compliance Excellence at Adidas. Learn how the quality processes in manufacturing might be applied to software development, especially when it comes to root cause analysis, and how risk analysis is all about error tolerance.

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Rich Bouchner: Private Equity Real Estate and Dogs

Rich Bouchner of Alpha Investing, a private equity real estate firm, and Fortune’s Path founder Tom Noser cover a number of topics in this podcast, including how Alpha chooses properties, why they only invest in properties that already exist, the impact of rising interest rates on his business, and the role that a history degree plays in developing a consultative approach to sales

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Andrew Kerr: Building Software is Like Making a Movie

Tom talks with Andrew Kerr, CEO and Managing Partner at FortyAU, a technology consultancy in Nashville that builds innovative software for some of the world's largest companies. Andrew talks about balancing quality and speed in the software development process, why many software projects fail, and how a bad rollout can kill the best software, on this episode of the Fortune's Path podcast.

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