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Kiran Bhatraju and the power hidden in a utility bill
He grew up in Kentucky coal country, went to Washington to work in politics, and found his opening in electricity bills. Now Arcadia’s founder is bringing the same appetite for practical change to The Nuclear Company.
Karen Thomas-Smith Put the Customer Before the Campaign
Long before customer-first became a slogan, Karen Thomas-Smith rebuilt a healthcare marketing team around a blunt question: what does the buyer actually need to understand? The answer changed the org chart, the content, and the numbers.
Sanjiv Sanghavi
Sanjiv Sanghavi is the co-founder and CEO of Texture, a New York company building an operating system for the distributed energy grid that ingests data from batteries, solar, EVs, chargers and smart devices and lets utilities act on it in real time. He co-founded ClassPass before fitness was a category, ran product as CPO at the supply-side energy giant Arcadia, and now wires together a fragmented grid that was built to push power one direction and is being asked to do the opposite. Texture has raised roughly $23M and counts more than 50 OEM integrations including Tesla, FranklinWH and SolarEdge.