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GRIT Ed. 9 “Family Matters”
asked themselves, “Would it be a bad thing if this existed?”
daily lives. “We both don’t believe in work-life balance.
“Do we need $10B?”, When the answer repeatedly was
Rather we believe in work-life integration. Work is a
no, the two brothers left everything the following week to
large part of how we spend our time, we also bring our
do so- maximizing every opportunity on the impact they
authentic selves to TKS and encourage our staff to do so
could have on the world. “We felt so passionate about
as well.”
this problem that we left everything to start TKS, training
high school students the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and
networks to leave a large impact globally.”
Navid and Nadeem view TKS as a shared mission so
they run it the same as any other founder solving a tough
problem would, by hiring people smarter than you and
Since Navid and Nadeem are on an important mission
for the future, it’s tough to separate their work from their
Nadeem Nathoo
giving them the autonomy and resources to do what
they do really well.
Nadeem Nathoo
Co-Founder, The Knowledge Society
Co-Founder, The Knowledge Society
Prior to TKS, Nadeem was a management consultant at
Prior to TKS Navid was the AI Product Lead for Box
McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500
in California. Navid holds a Bachelor of Arts in Honors
CEOs on their challenges in banking, mining, aerospace,
Business Administration (HBA) from Ivey Business
telecommunication, and advanced industries. He has
School at Western University. He has also been a
successfully led turnarounds & growth strategies that have
founder and CEO of a cloud security company and has
had global implications, including facilitating a $500 million
been involved in leading start-up organizations and
merger transition and a $2 billion strategic spin-off.
accelerators.
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