Claudia and Carolina Recchi are sisters who run EdSights, a tech platform that enhances student retention, and one of the fastest-growing companies in America. But today, as I speak to them over Zoom, they are sitting at a single laptop in a darkened apartment in a northern suburb of Rome, where they grew up, the windows shut tight to keep out the sweltering summer heat. Carolina, 30, and Claudia, 28, spend three months a year with their family, without their business (No. 296 on the Inc. 5000) missing a beat.
“We were born as a remote com pany, since our first five hires,” explains Carolina of EdSights, which started out building student-life apps. “It was important for us to prove that we could