How AI Is Leveling the Playing Field For Small Businesses to Compete With Industry Giants

How AI Is Leveling the Playing Field For Small Businesses to Compete With Industry Giants

In 2025, entrepreneurs can use technology to overcome any resource gap they have compared to the competition.

How this East Bay executive helps level the playing field for small businesses

It isn’t out of place today to see someone like East Bay native Ingrid Merriwether at the top of her field as the owner of a San Francisco-based insurance brokerage firm, which specializes in connecting local small businesses to government contracts. But the circumstances were different 28 years ago when Merriwether first had the opportunity to go from employee to owner in acquiring the firm where she’d been working since starting her career at …