Big Data in the City of Big Shoulders: Ocient’s Chris Gladwin on Problem-Solving, Perseverance and Plans for Chicago

  “We’ve got to find our own story, leverage our own strengths, and be Chicago about this.”   “What I’ve really specialized in is working on big, enterprise, core information technology problems and solving them. And what I’ve found is that there are inherent advantages to doing that here in Chicago,” says Chris Gladwin, founder…

Fake It Til You Make It; Trader Edition

This past year has turned a lot of average Joes into less-than-average investors, and we can thank the crypto surge for this. So you bought a share of a company, and then the stock dropped 60%… what do you do now? That’s what keeps people away: the constant ups and downs of the market. Rapunzl…

The advancement of media with Todd Unger

When Todd Unger was working for AOL many years ago, people told him he was nuts. “You’re crazy! This is all a fad!” Well, who’s nuts now? Media has come so far in the last couple decades, and Todd is no stranger to it. Old institutions are becoming digitized to keep up with the advancement…