In the Know with Amol Sarva

David Klein started Common Bond because grad school was too expensive. He went from McKinsey and Corporate America to homeless as he scratched together Common Bond, which now serves over 100,000 people in their mission to make higher ed cost less. We dive right into the In The Know interview with host Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder).

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to learn how to make things big...and how to keep things small. The wine community founded by Heini Zachariassen blew up, slowly. A few uses to a few millions daily. Bonus: learn about the Michelin-starred Faroe Islands restaurant that competes in a way the big boys never can. Stay small, stay beautiful.

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to talk with with the angel and founder Fabrice Grinda about his 100s of startup experiences and mainly about systems -- the system for selecting the right businesses for Fabrice, originally his 9 Business Selection Criteria along with its brand new update, and about happiness. Fabrice is a world-recognized expert on happiness, and we talk about the happiness of groups, not just individuals.

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to talk with Alex Mashinsky who has repeatedly dreamt big and hit big using information networks to disrupt telecom, Wall St, banks, taxis, and more. Listen to the visionary founder of Arbinet, the proto-Lyft/Uber GroundLink, Transit Wireless and now a crypto bank talk about the bets you must make to make things big. More about Alex: http://www.mashinsky.com/

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to talk with Will Herman, the Boston founder who dropped out of college, started at Digital Equipment Corporation in the hallowed early days of computing and followed his destiny to 100s of startups: public, private, scale, and varied. Plus, he drops science on people and ego -- the heart of helping people work out their differences.

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to visit Dane Madsen in a conversation that finds him far away from the centers of the commerce, in his retreat, talking travel, transformation, teams, and asking why.

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to visit Anthemos Georgiades who studied classics at Oxford, worked for BCG, joined Harvard Business School, and used it to launch his clever plan to to transform apartment rentals: Zumper. First time founder, scale-up genius: enjoy.

Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to visit Safi Bahcall who studied physics at Princeton as a kid with Stephen Wolfram, started a cancer drug discovery company and took it public, advised the Obama White House on science policy, and now has a book for how teams should be organized to create innovation: Loonshots. He has a lot to say on the incentives and structure of an organization and how that creates teamwork and innovation, or doesn't.

This time on In the Know Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) is visiting with a podcast media master strategist, Shira Atkins -- creator of the fabulous series that followed the 2018 elections and first-time women candidates, "Women Belong in the House", and her podcast media company Wonder Media Network.

This week In the Know has Amol Sarva (cofounder of Knotel) and colleague Allison Stoloff (Knotel's head of revenue marketing) visiting with Martha Stewart for an all-topics, all-opinions tour of her legendary business accomplishments and innovations.