GRIT Ed. 9 | Family Matters - Flipbook - Page 34
GRIT Ed. 9 “Family Matters”
MAPPING
THE HUMAN
WITH THE
NATHOO
BROTHERS
BLUEPRINT
Navid Nathoo & Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founders of The
Knowledge Society (TKS,) Next 36, 2010
The most valuable resource in the world is people. But
the way we mine human potential is like using a pickaxe
to mine gold. The reality is that people are not trained to
make the best use of their resources. And that’s because
we don’t know-how.
I
n every business, each partner
some of the poorest people in the
life. They create jobs and contribute
brings something unique to
world learn about microfinance and
to the economy, but there are
the table. In the case of the
generating sustainable income.
different types of entrepreneurs,
co-founders of The Knowledge
Society (TKS), the two have more in
each choosing their own path based
“When
we
talk
about
their
personality,
skills,
and
entrepreneurship here, it’s about
two brothers Nadeem and Navid
starting unicorn companies. When
Nathoo
the
we talk about entrepreneurship in
belief that as a society, we are not
Bangladesh, it’s about buying a goat
children of Ugandan and Tanzanian
maximizing human potential, and, if
and selling the milk. That is also
immigrants,
we unlock the full potential of young
entrepreneurship and we forget that
influenced by their parents over the
people, they could solve the biggest
definition. I think entrepreneurship is
years. Their mother ran a nonprofit
problems in the world.
the key to ending poverty in a lot of
for the elderly, and their father got
cases in third-world countries,” says
into real estate after years of hard
Navid.
and honest work cleaning floors.
founded
TKS
with
TKS is a human accelerator that
focuses on exponential technologies
in areas including Brain-Machine
Interfaces,
Quantum
Computing,
Reality, and Genetic Engineering.
TKS
Innovators
are
13-17
years
old and have spoken at some of
the
world’s
supported
largest
by
conferences,
companies
like
Microsoft and Google.
Buying Goats & Selling Milk
When Navid was in college, he
and his brother, Nadeem, went to
Bangladesh, where they interned at
Grameen Bank. There they helped
circumstances.
Nadeem
and
Navid
were
Nathoo,
unknowingly
Their father’s interest in business
Entrepreneurs bring bold ideas to
and mother’s focus on impact has
shaped these two brothers into
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on
common than just their DNA. The
difference-makers.
“I Think
Entrepreneurship
Is The Key To
Ending Poverty
In A Lot Of Cases
In Third-World
Countries”
NAVID NATHOO
The intelligent and driven brothers
retain history in finance, consulting
and tech. Navid sold his cloud tech
company to Box while Nadeem
was working on education centers
around the world, fighting poverty
and
working
at
McKinsey
&
Company, where he advised Fortune
500
in
CEOs
banking,
on
their
challenges
mining,
aerospace,
telecommunications, and advanced
industries. Nadeem has successfully