The former semipro poker player bet big that fintech wasn't just for startups. He has built Blend Labs into a $3 billion business by weaning the nation's biggest lenders off their steady diet of reams of dead trees—and he's about to go public
Hot Hand: Nima Ghamsari in the Beverly Hills home where he has worked during the pandemic as his business exploded and his software powered nearly a third of the US mortgage market
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(This story appears in the 17 December, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)