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He spent years watching water, electricity and revenue disappear through aging networks. Then he built Pylon around a stubborn idea: the smartest grid may be the one a utility can actually afford.

A teenage online sale, three MMA gold medals and an auto-parts marketplace led Ahmed Omar to an unlikely conclusion: the next useful unit of software is not a seat. It is a minute of work returned.