Early in my career at Ernst & Young, I learned something that has stayed with me through nearly three decades in finance: the story a company tells publicly and the story its numbers tell internally are rarely the same story. That gap,  between the narrative and…

The first time I watched a Tampa Bay company relocate after raising capital, I told myself it was a one-off. A founder who wanted to be closer to their investors. A deal that came with geography attached. It happens, I thought.