Choice Home Warranty Modernizes an Industry Built on Phone Calls and Paperwork
Choice Home Warranty Modernizes an Industry Built on Phone Calls and Paperwork For decades, the home warranty industry operated largely the same way it always had: a homeowner called a toll-free number, waited on hold, described a broken appliance or failed system to a representative, and then waited again for a technician to be dispatched.…
Read MoreColcom Foundation Highlights Severe US Biocapacity Overshoot
Carbon emissions tell only part of the sustainability story, according to research published by Colcom Foundation. The foundation points to biocapacity, a measure of how much land and water a population needs to produce what it consumes and absorb its waste, as a more complete gauge of environmental pressure. A Deficit That Has Only Grown…
Read MoreColcom Foundation’s Role in Western Pennsylvania Growth
The Pittsburgh region has benefited from three decades of grantmaking by the Colcom Foundation, an organization founded in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May with a mission centered on conservation and sustainable population policy. Funding That Reaches Multiple Sectors Rather than concentrating its giving in a single field, the Colcom Foundation has spread grants across environmental…
Read MoreThe Engineering Mindset Behind Kelcy Warren’s Pipeline Network
Kelcy Warren did not start out as a dealmaker. He studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, training that still shows up in how he talks about Energy Transfer’s sprawling pipeline system decades later. That engineering background has translated into a habit of asking practical questions about existing assets rather than assuming…
Read MoreThe Case for Patient Capital in Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure
Clean hydrogen has attracted plenty of enthusiasm and, more recently, plenty of skepticism as production costs and infrastructure timelines have proven more difficult than early projections suggested. Yet some investors continue to see the sector as fundamentally sound, provided capital is deployed with a genuinely long time horizon. Investor Yazan Al Homsi has been one…
Read MoreKelcy Warren’s $12 Million Gift Sets Record at UT-Arlington
In May 2023, Energy Transfer‘s Executive Chairman Kelcy Warren made headlines in Texas higher education circles when he donated $12 million to the University of Texas-Arlington, a gift that stands as the largest single donation in the school’s history. The funds were designated to help build out UT-Arlington’s resource and energy engineering program. A Personal…
Read MoreThe Science Behind Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Extended Deep-Plane Facelift
Most surgical advances refine existing methods. Fewer require abandoning the logic that made those methods standard. Dr. Andrew Jacono’s extended deep-plane facelift belongs to the rarer category a technique that works not by improving what conventional facelifts do but by doing something categorically different. Anatomy as the Starting Point Conventional facelift techniques separate skin from…
Read MoreJudd Zebersky Leaves Jazwares With 1,400 Employees and a Global Footprint
On March 20, 2026, Judd Zebersky formally stepped down from Jazwares, the company he founded nearly 30 years earlier. What began as a solo bet made by a lawyer with no manufacturing experience has grown into a company with approximately 1,400 employees distributing products across more than 100 countries. Zebersky’s background was in law, not…
Read MoreVon der Idee zur Skalierung bei PLAN B NET ZERO
Plan B Net Zero hat in kurzer Zeit bewiesen, dass digitale Energiemodelle exponentiell skalieren können, wenn die technologische Grundlage stimmt und der Kundennutzen klar und messbar ist. Die wachsende Nachfrage nach solchen Lösungen zeigt, dass Verbraucher bereit für echten Wandel im Energiemarkt sind. Für Verbraucher bedeutet das konkret: mehr Kontrolle, mehr Klarheit und ein dauerhaft…
Read MoreWhat Judd Zebersky’s Exit Means for Jazwares and Its Future
On March 20, 2026, Judd Zebersky stepped down as CEO of Jazwares, closing out a nearly 30-year tenure that began not in a toy aisle but on a factory floor in rural China. The company he leaves behind employs roughly 1,400 people and operates in more than 100 countries. Zebersky took a path that few…
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