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The Masks Weren't the Business, The People Sewing Them Were (opens the original)
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In March 2020, John Pryor was standing in a furniture studio he'd just spent a year renovating, watching his business teeter. He launched a face-mask line before he knew how to sew, and sold 15,000 masks in eight weeks. Then the real story walked through his door: dozens of refugee and immigrant stitchers from Burma and Afghanistan, carrying generational craft skills the labor market had never learned to see. Pryor rebuilt his company around them, launching a handbag brand where designs carry th
What the Network Enables (Part II) (opens the original)
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Infrastructure without application strategy is just real estate with electricity. Sprint launched America’s first 4G network — and still lost the 4G era to the translators. Having the infrastructure first is not the same as capturing the era. KC now has $11B+ of announced hyperscale investment. The economic return depends on the translation: connecting the compute to the compute-hungry industries already here. And the proximity advantage is real where it’s honest: the triangle of compute + physi
How Kansas City Won a World Cup It Wasn't Supposed to Get (opens the original)
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Kansas City is the 33rd-largest metro area in America. It was competing against host cities ranked in the top fifteen nationally and it won anyway. Then FIFA told them they had redefined what a host city does. Cliff Illig, co-founder of Cerner and majority owner of Sporting Kansas City, explains how a decade of deliberate infrastructure investment, not luck, turned Kansas City into a World Cup host. He breaks down the difference between hosting a moment and building sustained economic advantage,
The New Geography of Growth (opens the original)
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Every era of economic growth organized around a connectivity infrastructure — water, rail, air, compute. The cities at the nodes captured generational value. Data centers are the ports of the AI economy. And in Kansas City, the infrastructure is not arriving — it has already landed ($11B+ announced from Google alone, Meta operating, the KC Star press building becoming a 100MW AI facility). The question is design, not attraction. The smartest regions solve the problems the infrastructure creates
The Labor Shortage Is a Lie: How Two Immigrant Founders Built a 96% Retention Company (opens the original)
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Reda came to Kansas City from Egypt with almost no English and a fear of heights and took a roofing job anyway. Elvis, a Nigerian immigrant and former R&D chemist, walked away from a corporate career to join him. Together they built what is now Amina Design Build (formerly RK Contractors), a construction company where 81% of the workforce is immigrants, refugees, and second-chance citizens and where retention sits at 96%, an almost unheard-of number in the industry. In this episode of the Social
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