Outdoor Living: How Two McCombs Entrepreneurs With a Love for Time Spent Outside Built a Company
Kevin Long, MBA ’23, spent the first Thanksgiving of the COVID-19 pandemic around a backyard fire with family and friends. It was a safe way to celebrate the holiday together, but the cold weather cut short the fun. That’s when Long had an idea. As his guests were leaving, he recalls, “It hit me in that moment, and I blurted out, ‘I wish our seats were heated.’ …
The Banana Cure: How 2 Texas Student-Entrepreneurs are Harnessing the Therapeutic Properties of a One-of-Kind First-Aid Treatment
Sean Finney was surfing on a remote beach in Brazil, near the town where he and his family lived, when a wave crashed on top of him, dragging him along a reef. He was just 9 years old. “The accident mangled my right leg from knee to ankle,” Finney remembers. “My dad was worried I was going to bleed out on the way to the hospital, so he was going to put a tourniquet on my leg.” …