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The IBJ Podcast with Mason King

The IBJ Podcast with Mason King

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  • Cook Medical spearheaded manufacturing plant and grocery for struggling east siders. But how’s it going?

    Cook Medical spearheaded manufacturing plant and grocery for struggling east siders. But how’s it going?
    19 Oct 2026
    In 2020, Bloomington-based device maker Cook Medical and several Indianapolis-based nonprofits announced plans to build a $15 million manufacturing facility on Indy’s near-eastside. The goal was to create about 100 jobs for residents of the high-poverty neighborhood. Those 100 employees then would receive key services from Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana to ensure the workers and their families have the food, housing and education they need to succeed. Goodwill Commercial Services would run the plant, which would make medical devices for Cook. And to ensure employees and other area residents had access to healthy food, Cook also planned to develop a grocery store next door named Indy Fresh Market, employing another 40 people. Cook Medical President Pete Yonkman returns to the IBJ Podcast this week to deliver an update on the facilities and how well Cook and its partners have been able to deliver on their goals. In particular, he discusses the grocery’s struggle to reach the break-even point, the process for addressing crime in the neighborhood and whether this blueprint for community investment has caught on elsewhere.
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    51 min.
  • Indy-based Round Room rolling in growth surge, nearing 1,600 stores

    Indy-based Round Room rolling in growth surge, nearing 1,600 stores
    12 Oct 2026
    Fishers-based Round Room LCC is the sixth-largest private company in Indiana. You’re forgiven for not knowing the name, although the brand it represents is one of the most recognizable in the United States and provides goods and services to more than 100 million people. And Round Room is in the midst of a major growth spurt that could put it higher on the list of Indiana private companies, although it’s unlikely to change from what owner and CEO Scott Moorehead calls “the best company that nobody knows about in the state.” The easiest way to explain Round Room is to say that it is one of the nation’s largest independent wireless retailers with exclusive agreements with Verizon. It currently owns or has franchised about 1,550 stores in about 45 states. The sign on the outside will say Verizon, and the interior will look like any other Verizon store, but there’s decent chance just about anywhere in the country that you’re walking in a Round Room store. And the numbers are growing fast: Round Room counted about 1,300 stores at the beginning of this year, and Moorehead projects the number will be somewhere in the 1,600 to 1,650 range by the end of the year with annual revenue close to $3 billion. Round Room’s employee count is just under 3,000 people, including about 500 added just this year. Moorehead returns to the IBJ Podcast this week to discuss what’s driving the growth spurt. He also explains why selling phones and wireless service is a recession-resistant business. As Moorehead explains, artificial intelligence is now an important part of the business. And he goes into some detail describing Round Room’s evolving relationship with Verizon, currently the 28th largest member of the Fortune 500.
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    51 min.
  • Veteran tech execs launch startup for evaluating executive teams — and AI is helping them go it alone

    Veteran tech execs launch startup for evaluating executive teams — and AI is helping them go it alone
    5 Oct 2026
    Adam Weber and Andrew Clark seem to be cut from similar cloth. Before working in the technology sector, they both earned degrees in the liberal arts at Ball State University. The eventually worked together at tech firm BlueBridge Digital, which was co-founded by Weber. Clark joined Weber again at the firm Emplify, which was an evolved version of BlueBridge and was acquired in 2021 for $50 million. Weber and Clark knew they enjoyed working with each other and kept their eyes peeled for the right idea. They founded it in February and made the decision to team up over dinner. Named Helm, the company evaluates executive teams to find points of friction that can slow growth. Helm then helps the CEO improve group dynamics and accelerate performance. Weber and Clark work closely together, in part because new artificial intelligence tools can handle responsibilities that would have required as many as 20 full-time employees just five years ago. The tools also have helped eliminate major startup costs. In fact, Weber and Clark have no plans for the foreseeable future to hire a third person or to seek investor capital. They’re a two-man band. In this week’s edition of the podcast, Weber and Clark discuss the ways creating a startup has changed in the age of AI and why they enjoy working together. They also address the challenges of evaluating top executives and the five main signals they apply to client companies.
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    42 min.
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