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Aditya Viswanadha and the Long Apprenticeship of Seeing People Clearly
Before AI could read a career, someone had to teach the software what a career leaves out. Aditya Viswanadha's path from electronics student to Findem's founding engineering team is a quiet study in context, systems, and the useful limits of a resume.
Lever Wants Hiring to Feel Less Like Filing Cabinet Duty
Lever built its name by treating candidates as relationships, not paperwork. Its newest AI tools push that idea further - but the smartest buyers will test the reports before they fall for the tidy interface.
Eight Companies Fighting to Run Your Company
Eight companies - ADP, Paradox, Deel, HiBob, Workday, RemoFirst, UKG and Rippling - are competing to own the software layer that hires, pays, manages and offboards nearly everyone who works for a living. This is the story of the seventy-five-year-old incumbent, the enterprise giant born of a grudge, the fast-growing global-payroll rivals now locked in a corporate espionage lawsuit, and the newcomers trying to make hiring anyone, anywhere, feel like ordering takeout.
Anil Dharni
Anil Dharni is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sense, a San Francisco-based AI-powered talent engagement platform that serves over 1,000 organizations. Before reshaping how companies hire, he co-founded Funzio, the mobile gaming studio behind 'Crime City' and 'Modern War,' which sold to GREE for $210 million in 2012. At Sense, backed by SoftBank with $106 million raised and a $500M valuation, he is on a mission to humanize the contingent workforce and make candidates feel genuinely valued through AI, automation, and omnichannel communication.
Nancy Xu
Nancy Xu is VP of Agentforce at Salesforce, the architect behind one of enterprise AI's most-watched platforms. A Stanford CS PhD and MBA dual-degree holder, she founded Moonhub in 2022 — the world's first AI recruiter — raised $10M+, landed on TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, and then joined Salesforce in 2025 when the company brought her entire team aboard. She also runs Xu Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused fund, and co-founded The Gradient, a respected AI research publication. A first-generation immigrant, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and relentless builder, Xu is now leading Salesforce's charge to make autonomous AI agents accessible to every business user on the planet.