FarmITFounder Investor
Jan. 2006 - Jun. 2010Fremont, California, United States“By the Community, Of the Community, For the Community.”
FarmIT+DirectTradeTM’s open architecture includes an Artificial Intelligence driven multi-lingual engine, proprietary machine learning algorithms to balance the value chain for supplies and with the demand to ensure optimization of for small farmers; and provides simple voice and text CHATBOT activated autonomous and distributed data driven enterprise management system. The infrastructure promotes direct relationships based on pre-agreed terms among the parties, and transparently track-and-update the progress. For each transaction, it maintains the success index for everyone to see and build their trust. This architecture became an open invitation for rural entrepreneurs to learn, earn and create high value tech-driven jobs. All in the community, and lead the charge for, now unstoppable, digital transformation of their communities. Consumerization of technology applications is another center piece in the infrastructure’s mission, as its users are small farmers. I personally built and recruited the team of untainted disruptors to evolve a proprietary methodology to “select and consumerize” simple applications on top of the best of the breed state-of-art technologies. Once ready, sprint and deliver the appropriate technology infrastructure to the “next billion”. A sense of belonging is essential for successful adoption of anything new, by the foundation of the pyramid. It is not that the nest, when the younger generation leaves to live in the ghettos to earn that becomes empty. It leaves broken families who often remain in generational poverty.