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Khalid David is Founder and CEO of TracFlo, a company with a predictive financial management platform that is empowering America’s contractors.
Originally from the Bronx, Khalid was born into a family of tradesmen with a deep connection to his Afro-Caribbean roots. So it’s no surprise that, even with education from Morehouse, Columbia, and MIT, Khalid ended up in the construction industry. And it was those experiences that opened his eyes to the opportunity to better track the dynamic cost changes happening on today’s construction sites. And so TracFlo was born. Khalid is a passionate speaker and advocate, and has won competitions at MIT, Harvard, and Stanford business schools.
Khalid has a great story, you’ll want to listen in.
“Success is not mutually exclusive from my blackness.”
~ Khalid David
In this episode Khalid and Dan discussed:
- representing the Bronx
- His Saint Kitts and Nevis heritage
- Emerging from college during the Great Recession
- Building software inside a traditional construction firm
- How TracFlo replaces the pad and pencil in the field
- Wearing the mantle of pioneering black entrepreneur
“I’ve wasted so much time, so much emotional energy, trying to convince people who are scared.”
~ Khalid David
MORE on KHALID and TRACFLO
Khalid:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-david-34a55824/
https://www.twitter.com/kdpegasus
https://www.instagram.com/kdpegasus
TracFlo:
https://tracfloapp.com
https://republic.co/tracflo
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracflo
https://www.instagram.com/tracfloapp
“…as black innovators, we’ve always been the creators of culture..”
~ Khalid David