Articles by Rico Franco
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Commercial Real Estate Is Ripe for AI Disruption and These Stanford Grads Are Leading the Way
Meet Closera, a Y Combinator-backed startup that is bringing generative artificial intelligence to commercial real estate. What they're building represents more than another tech solution—it's a complete reimagining of how property marketing is done.
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How JP Malherbe Became the Highest-Earning Sales Leader in Record Time
Six months after a call came at 2 AM South African time, JP Malherbe would be making $1 million in new business for BizDev Labs, making Malherbe one of the highest-earning sales leaders in South Africa while selling exclusively into the American market.
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From Singapore to Atlanta: Utham Kumar's Journey as a FinTech Leader
Utham Kumar Anugula Sethupathy began his professional journey in a Singapore laboratory, calibrating wireless equipment as a graduate student at Nanyang Technological University in 2004. At a time when mobile phones meant calls and texts, he saw the future potential of wireless technology to drive economic connectivity on a global scale.
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Arnav Jha Is Shaking Up Financial Technology at 20, and He Is Just Starting
As CEO of Loandock, Jha, a first-generation immigrant from India, has already processed over $600 million in mortgages through his AI-powered platform that automates loan origination from start to finish.
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The Technical Program Manager Redefining Real-Time Financial Systems
The modern world cannot simply move without the transactional power of financial technology—a kind of technology that Srivenkatesh Dudala immerses himself in. Today, Dudala's work on cloud computing and financial technology has dramatically altered how companies process financial data.
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Santosh Kumar Chennuri: Driving Change in Enterprise Cloud and Gen AI
Santosh Kumar Chennuri is a driving force behind the transformation of enterprise cloud strategies. He focuses particularly on remodeling the travel and hospitality industries and elevating developer experience across large organizations.
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Expert Risk Tracker Shwetha Mahadevappa Redefines Medical Device Safety
Patients who put their lives in the hands of healthcare institutions and personnel do so with an unmitigated amount of trust, as all they want to be is well again. Expert Risk Tracker Shwetha Mahadevappa ensures this by guaranteeing that every medical device used in patient care is top-notch and will do what it is supposed to do for the best of the patient.
