THELOGICALINDIAN - A 16yearold babe who responded to a LinkedIn advert has landed a accord with her cryptocurrency app that has surged to the top of the Apple App Store
Coder and artist Harshita Arora, who lives in the northern Indian burghal of Saharanpur, responded to an advertisement acquaint by Sean Walsh, founder of California-based crypto-asset adventure basic close Redwood Burghal Ventures. The aim, letters the International Business Times, was to acquisition an app that he admired at the appropriate price, article Walsh was able to acquisition with Arora, through her Crypto Amount Tracker.
After ablution her app in January it rose to the top of the Apple App Store in aloof one day, earning a 4.7 appraisement amid its 49 reviews. At a time back the cryptocurrency bazaar is assuming airy prices, and bitcoin experiencing its worst division ever, it seems now added than anytime that investors are agog to accumulate an eye on prices, acceptation apps like the Crypto Price Tracker are activity to abide accepted apps to accept on hand.
Providing prices for added than 1,000 cryptocurrencies from over 20 exchanges and in 32 authorization currencies, Walsh admits that while the app isn’t a new artefact on the market, it has the abeyant to advance added with the company. He adds that this is ‘a allusive step’ for the company’s evolution. As such Walsh believes that the app will advice to accomplish Walsh’s business ‘more aggressive in the all-around marketplace.’
Explaining, Walsh said that:
The abstraction that I had, and the acumen I bought it, was to act as an accessible beachhead to admission for my amplification into absolute customer tech-related businesses, which array of transcends a lot of the crypto mining that I accept invested in over the aftermost several years.
Less than two weeks afterwards responding to Walsh’s advert, and afterwards he absitively that the app was what he was attractive for, Arora accustomed her aboriginal wire transfer. Taking to amusing media, the 16-year-old who aboriginal abstruse agenda architecture and coding at the age of 13, bidding her joy afterwards her app had been acquired by Redwood City Ventures.
Big account everyone! My app, @cryptotrackapp, has been acquired by Redwood City Ventures (@SeanWalshBTC). So animated that the app is now in amazing hands!
I had a abundant time architecture it, and I'm aflame to coact with a abundant new team! 😀
— Harshita Arora (@aroraharshita33) March 16, 2018
Surprisingly, according to Walsh, he didn’t realise how old Arora was to activate with, adding:
“She aloof seemed like a able software developer. It was absolutely a abruptness back I abstruse her age.”
As addition who has a agog absorption in the blockchain and cryptocurrencies Arora is hopes to accomplish it to Silicon Valley one day to assignment on added startups.
