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Bobbie Gossage
@bobbieg.bsky.social
Contributing editor at Inc. magazine. Formerly: Fast Company, Fortune, Medium, LearnVest, and Etsy. Fan of the KC Royals and Patrick Mahomes. Views are my own.
Raising Cane's is now bigger than KFC, with one of the smallest menus you'll find at a chain restaurant. If you love good business journalism and good chicken fingers, check out @notrobwalker.bsky.social's great feature on Cane's and founder Todd Graves.

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How Raising Cane's Founder Todd Graves Perfected His Formula and Built a $5 Billion Brand
Graves' recipe for creating a legion of Caniacs and passing KFC to be America's third-largest chicken chain.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Big day! New Taylor Swift album announcement AND the 2025 Inc. 5000 list drop?! ❤️‍🔥🚀😄

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2025 Inc. 5000: Meet the Companies That Epitomize Resilience
The 2025 Inc. 5000 list honors the fastest-growing private companies in America.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Here are the best places to work in the Washington, D.C. metro area. (Hint: It's not the federal government.)

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42 Companies in the Washington, D.C. Area That Are Great Places to Work
These 42 companies based in the Washington, D.C. metro area made it onto Inc.'s 2025 Best Workplaces list.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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“For the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
The legal issues raised by Trump sending the National Guard to L.A.
President Trump is sending the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom by invoking rarely used federal powers.
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June 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Netflix found a way to drop the Stranger Things final season across all the major holidays. www.fastcompany.com/91344584/net...
Netflix is about to dominate every holiday with 'Stranger Things'
Netflix is releasing the final season of 'Stranger Things' in batches around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's—and not everyone's happy.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Disturbing ICE raid at a beloved local restaurant in San Diego. “Some witnesses in news reports say agents at first handcuffed the entire restaurant crew as they asked for identification.”
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An immigration raid at a San Diego restaurant leads to a chaotic scene
Videos show armed agents in tactical gear, a crowd of locals and what appear to be smoke devices deployed.
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June 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Replacing Elon Musk as CEO of Tesla makes sense for the brand. "...given how singularly the Musk personal brand is intertwined with Tesla’s, the most obvious solution would be to get some daylight between the two," writes @notrobwalker.bsky.social.

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Can the Tesla brand be saved?
We’re about to see the extent of the damage to Tesla caused by global outrage directed at Elon Musk and DOGE.
www.fastcompany.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The country's biggest retailers are scared to challenge Trump's tariffs in court.

But this Pensacola-based entrepreneur, who runs a 10-person stationary business, isn't. I spoke with @emilyley.bsky.social about her lawsuit for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91312081/mee...
April 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
James Surowiecki, who broke the scoop on Trump's wild tariff math, has a new piece for @inc.com about how bad the math truly is: www.inc.com/james-surowi...
Take a Look at Trump's Actual Tariff Math, and You'll See How Bad It Really Is
What the tariff rates Trump rolled out yesterday made clear is that his goal isn’t, ultimately, to bring down trade barriers.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I don't know if Mamdani has a chance, but I like this ad. x.com/ZohranKMamda... He's also the only public official who's ever personally helped me when I reached out for assistance.
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March 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“There’s something really beautiful watching a Sims player meet another Sims player,” says Lyndsay Pearson, vice president of franchise creative for the game. “They eventually admit that they’ve killed somebody.” fortune.com/2025/01/31/t...
The women behind The Sims on the iconic game's 25th anniversary
As The Sims turns 25, the women-led team reflects on how they helped build one of the best-selling games of all time.
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January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“I don’t identify with the term ‘dictator,’” WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg told David H. Freedman in a fascinating interview for @inc.com. “A nicer way of saying it would be ‘enlightened leader.’”

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Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?
The WordPress co-founder's open-source empire dominates the web. His attack on competitor WP Engine may be putting it at risk.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:43 PM
"The murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has unleashed long-simmering anger that has the potential to make health insurance the most toxic category since Big Tobacco," writes @notrobwalker.bsky.social

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Has health insurance become a toxic industry?
The UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder unleashed long-simmering anger that has the potential to make health insurance the most toxic category since Big Tobacco.
www.fastcompany.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:35 PM
This. "Joe Biden, and by extension Kamala Harris, got blamed for inflation but received no credit at all for the tight labor market that has driven up wages." www.inc.com/james-surowi...
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I deleted that other app, but still trying to figure out whether to use this app or Threads.
November 11, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Does anyone else remember when David Bowie created the metaverse? Before Horizon Worlds, Decentraland, or even Second Life, there was Bowie World, a weird and amazing place. And it still exists.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90890301/david-bowie-world-metaverse-oral-history
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July 7, 2023 at 3:22 PM