In an era when autonomous vehicle transportation for cars and trucks is inevitable, the merger of locally operated Luminar Technologies with Nasdaq-listed Gores Metropoulos is noteworthy. Luminar, through the vision of CEO Austin Russell, CTO…
Articles of Interest
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SANDY SHUGART
Listening to the announcement that Valencia President Sandy Shugart was going to be retiring was somewhat of a wake-up call. Some 15 years ago, I heard Sandy address an EDC Leadership Conference. I had the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BODY CAMERAS
Winter Park Police Chief Michael Deal’s action in fully equipping his police department with body cameras, once the city had approved the budget for them, reflects a welcome sign of the times for law enforcement….
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REVISITING STARLINK
Among the recent achievements of SpaceX, noteworthy is that the company is now building 120 communication satellites per month, accelerating Elon Musk’s goal of blanketing the planet with 12,000 small satellites delivering high-speed internet in…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: WAITING FOR ‘MULAN’
Disney has clearly suffered at the hands of the pandemic as its market cap shrunk from $260 billion to $215 billion in the last six months alone. One of its star attractions is its new…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY AND KAEPERNICK
The Disney-Colin Kaepernick partnership to produce and distribute content focused on social and racial topics is not only a forceful strategic move to position Disney in the country’s self-examination of issues associated with systemic racism,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: POLITICS OF MASKS
As we all witness Gov. Ron DeSantis stubbornly embrace politics over science, I am reminded of the Catholic Church during Galileo’s day which, despite clear and convincing evidence that the Earth circled the sun –…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CREATIVE RENEWAL
Lincoln Property’s decision to reposition the 110,000-square-foot office building in downtown Orlando it acquired in 2014 as a mixed-use structure with 143 residential units, a ground level occupied by Wahlburgers, a second floor dedicated to…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ECONOMIC PARALLEL
As Hertz, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, and Tuesday Morning head into bankruptcy, ostensibly as a result of COVID-19, an interesting parallel emerges between biology and economics. COVID-19 has laid a swath of devastation as it focused…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: KINDER, GENTLER
Falling somewhat under the category of “regularly scheduled programming,” John Krasinski’s Some Good News, a YouTube by-product of the pandemic, is a reflection of what is likely to emerge as the next generation of programming…