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• any indication, tomorrow. • Consider FarmboxRx (p. 78), the company founded by a formerly single mother on food stamps that delivers produce as medicine under health care plans. Or Pyx Health (p. 154), an intervention platform built to tackle the loneliness epidemic by a couple who lost their daughter to it. Or CareBridge (p. 72), this year’s No. 1 company, which grew, like gangbusters, out of the collaboration between serial entrepreneur Brad Smith and former Tennessee senator Bill Frist. CareBridge is on a mission to convert Medicaid to value-based care, but it’s no non profit: It grew revenue 157,000 percent over the past three years to a staggering $872.6 million in 2022. • These examples come from just one slice of the economy, and just a few of the pages that follow. Overall, median revenue growth for the top 500 companies in 2022 ticked up to 2,238 percent from 2,144 percent the previous year. In all, Inc. 5000 companies added 1,187,266 jobs to the economy over the past three years. Those metrics add up to a lot of very determined entrepreneurs looking for solutions to the biggest problems facing us today. As we said, amazing.
