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Carl Madi is the co-founder and CEO of Stepful, a New York healthtech and edtech company that trains people for allied healthcare careers in weeks instead of years. After scaling operations at Uber, Airbnb, Handy, and Amino Apps and earning an MBA from Wharton, he started Stepful in 2021 with Tressia Hobeika and Edoardo Serra. The company runs AI-assisted, cohort-based programs for medical assistants, pharmacy techs, and other frontline roles, places graduates through a network of 8,000+ clinical partners, and was ranked the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME in 2025.