Aug 6, 2026

How This CEO Built A Billion-Dollar Tech Unicorn After 40

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ForbesWomen Editor Maggie McGrath, sits with Ritu Narayan, the founder and CEO of Zum, who shares the incredible story of how she set out to solve a deeply personal parenting challenge and ended up modernizing the largest mass transit system in America.

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