Amol Sarva

In the Know with Amol Sarva

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Amol Sarva's series with changemakers and innovators in longevity, tech, and ideas

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Amol Sarva

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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on selling lightning in a bottle 09.03.2020 33:25

CEO of the ultra-hot cloud data company Snowflake -- and former CEO of huge enterprise tech players ServiceNow and DataDomain

Stacy Schiff on women in history: Cleopatra, the Witches of Salem, and Mrs. Nabokov 05.03.2020 54:54

One of my favorite writers, Stacy Schiff has written a bunch of amazing biographies. This time we talk about how women are remembered in history.

Bari Williams on diversity in Silicon Valley culture 05.03.2020 55:20

Bari Williams is a unicorn in the tech sector: high-ranking, high-achieving African-American woman. We talk about why Silicon Valley is so dysfunctional on diversity.

ARUP, which designs whole cities, lends us their Deputy Chair Tristram Carfrae on the ways a huge creative organization stays great 22.08.2019 41:56

He also talks about finishing Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, the Sydney Opera House, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the longest bridge in the world and so much more.

Blue Apron founder Matt Salzberg on the ride from idea to IPO 22.08.2019 43:10

Andrew McAfee, MIT author of The Second Machine Age and prophet of abundance previews his new book on doing more with less and his way of finding powerful new ideas 11.08.2019 55:02

Robbie Carp of the early days of Microsoft, the invention of Product Management, and the once and once again Most Valuable Company in the World 08.08.2019 46:10

Sheila Hood of the Difficult Conversations mega-bestseller, of the Harvard Negotiation Project, on the toughest stuff we do between people and in teams, plus how they figured it out 08.08.2019 54:00

The inventor of Agile: Jeff Sutherland, on the way to do everything twice as fast 25.07.2019 45:50

Josh Abramson, creator of CollegeHumor and BustedTees on hunting the biggest startup game 24.07.2019

George Church, the synthetic biology superstar on reading, writing, and re-writing life and the way science does innovation 15.07.2019 39:00

Innovation guru and IDEO’s biographer Jonathan Littman on the ways new things get invented 15.07.2019 48:50

Legendary Geoffrey Moore on the canonical ideas: Crossing the Chasm, Th Bowling Alley, Inside the Tornado, and the theory of the evangelistic sale 09.07.2019 42:14

DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor on building the biggest ad company in the world, and then all of it in reverse 02.07.2019 43:47

My hero and guru Ronald Heifetz, Harvard Kennedy School professor and counselor to presidents, protestors and revolutionaries on: the hardest problems of leadership 27.06.2019 1:04:22

See if you can notice where tears start streaming down my face.

Evangelist Guy Kawasaki of Garage Ventures, Apple, Canva and the true Silicon Valley religion 20.06.2019 41:49

Philip Tetlock, the guru of Superforecasting, seeing the future, and the foxes and hedgehogs of decisionmaking 14.06.2019 41:52

John Nesheim, the guru of Silicon Valley art and science, National Semiconductor, Venture Capital and Cornell professor 14.06.2019 51:43

Warren Hatch, superforecaster, PhD Kremlinologist, hedge fund manager and President of Good Judgment Inc on the Fox and the Hedgehog 12.06.2019 33:55

Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, evolution, foxes and hedgehogs kicks off my series on styles of thinking 04.06.2019 41:06

David Klein of CommonBond on tackling the student debt apocalypse; $2.5bn down, $2 trillion to go 15.04.2019 28:57

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).

Heini Zachariassen, creator of the world’s largest wine platform (Vivino) and from one of the world’s tiniest states 15.04.2019 31:56

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.

Fabrice Grinda, 400X angel (Alibaba, Knotel, OpenDoor, Flexport) and manyX co-founder of Auclan, Zingy, OLX and company-builder FJ Labs 11.04.2019 51:53

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...

Alex Mashinsky, visionary founder of Arbinet, the proto-Lyft/Uber GroundLink, Transit Wireless and now a crypto bank talks about making things big 11.04.2019 43:15

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.mashi...

Will Herman, author of The Startup Playbook, 2x billion-dollar founder, 200x startup-advisor on how to lead people to greatness 06.04.2019 44:22

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.