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GRIT Ed. 9 “Family Matters”
Brothers In Business: ALUMNI FEATURED
MAPPING
led
THE HUMAN
WITH THE
NATHOO
BROTHERS
BLUEPRINT
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.
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,
“When
we
talk
about
on
their
personality,
skills,
two brothers Nadeem and Navid
starting unicorn companies. When
Nathoo
the
we talk about entrepreneurship
belief that as a society, we are not
in Bangladesh, it’s about buying
children of Ugandan and Tanzanian
maximizing human potential, and, if
a goat and selling the milk. That
immigrants,
we unlock the full potential of young
is also entrepreneurship and we
influenced by their parents over the
people, they could solve the biggest
forget
think
years. Their mother ran a nonprofit
problems in the world.
entrepreneurship is the key to
for the elderly, and their father got
ending poverty in a lot of cases in
into real estate after years of hard
third-world countries,” says Navid.
and honest work cleaning floors.
with
TKS is a human accelerator that
that
definition.
I
Interfaces,
Quantum
Entrepreneurs bring bold ideas to
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
weeks ago, we didn’t know each
merger transition and a $2 billion
before the second child is born and
other and didn’t realize that we both
strategic spin-off. He’s also done
continues as kids grow and compete
run companies with our siblings. But
development
Tajikistan,
for everything from toys to attention.
the vibe was there. So maybe there’s
Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, East Africa,
But for the Nathoo brothers, that
something to that?”
and Honduras. — together, they
sibling rivalry doesn’t exist. The two
decided to help kids shape the
are very much on the same page
While sitting in a hot tub with a
future.
for vision and both don’t care about
mountain view, Nadeem asked his
money for personal consumption.
brother, “What if we had 10 billion
work
in
dollars in the bank?” After a long
“Our parents still don’t really
get it, but they’re proud and have
“For us more importantly, this isn’t a
conversation full of questions and
always been supportive. I think
business. It’s more of a life mission.”
ideations, they realized that there
the fact that we work together on
Navid and Nadeem are a team
was an infrastructure problem. There
something impact-related aligns so
with the same values and vision.
wasn’t an institution they knew of
closely to our overall family values,”
Nadeem stated “In fact, it’s an
that was training people specifically
said Navid.
instant connection even when we
to solve complex problems. They
Nadeem
and
Navid
were
Nathoo,
unknowingly
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1979
NATURE OR
NURTURE?
and mother’s focus on impact has
WHICH IS THE
ENTREPRENEURIAL DRIVE
ROOTED FROM?
difference-makers.
Artificial Intelligence, Augmented
TKS
Often, sibling rivalry starts even
shaped these two brothers into
Computing,
Reality, and Genetic Engineering.
I met Braden from Inkbox a few
including facilitating a $500 million
Their father’s interest in business
focuses on exponential technologies
in areas including Brain-Machine
see other siblings start companies.
and
entrepreneurship here, it’s about
TKS
Brothers In Business Vibes
circumstances.
common than just their DNA. The
founded
growth
each choosing their own path based
co-founders of The Knowledge
Society (TKS), the two have more in
and
strategies with global implications,
Navid Nathoo & Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founders of The
Knowledge Society (TKS,) Next 36, 2010
I
turnarounds
“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
Both. Nature - from in-
and tech. Navid sold his cloud tech
tellectual
company to Box while Nadeem
personality/natural drives.
was working on education centers
Nurture from values and
around the world, fighting poverty
believing you can do it.
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
REZA & ASIF
1979
horsepower/