The people behind zero.

zero is co-founded by Navid Nathoo and Nadeem Nathoo, the brothers who built TKS (The Knowledge Society) and Nth Order. Atul Khola leads design, marketing, and growth as Head of Experience. The lineage runs from human-read applications at TKS, to data-driven performance at zero.

Navid Nathoo

CO-FOUNDER

Navid founded Airpost, a Silicon Valley cloud-security company that was acquired by Box (NYSE: BOX) in 2015. After the acquisition, he led product across machine learning, big data, and advanced security at Box. In 2016, he co-founded TKS with his brother Nadeem. He sits on the Advisory Board at the XPRIZE Foundation. Currently he is a co-founder of Nth Order (xⁿ). Ivey Business School, Western University.

You can read more about Navid at LinkedIn, X, XPRIZE, and Crunchbase.

Nadeem Nathoo

CO-FOUNDER

Nadeem co-founded TKS in 2016 with his brother Navid, and serves as Executive Director. He is also a Limited Partner at Meta4 Capital, an a16z-backed NFT and Web3 fund. Before TKS, Nadeem was a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company across banking, telecommunications, and aerospace. Earlier, he interned at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus, taught business in Mombasa, ran a university incubator, scaled early childhood centres in Tajikistan, and built mobility aids in rural Honduras. Ivey Business School (Honors BBA). WISE Qatar and ASU GSV Summit speaker.

You can read more about Nadeem at LinkedIn, WISE, and TheOrg.

The TKS lineage

The Knowledge Society is the world's top accelerator program for ambitious teens. Founded in 2016, TKS alumni are among the youngest employees at SpaceX, Tesla, NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Neuralink, and Microsoft. Alumni have raised over $250M for their own companies. TKS operates in 60+ countries.

TKS is the human selection model: spot a kid with bias for action, get out of the way, watch them build. zero is the data-driven performance model: every student gets a chance to prove it on a real scenario, every submission gets scored, every recruiter sees the work. zero is the technological fulfillment of the TKS thesis.

Atul Khola

HEAD OF EXPERIENCE

Atul leads design, marketing, and growth at zero. Before zero, he was a lead product designer at CRED for four years across central experiences, credit card management, and the social and e-commerce charters. Earlier, he led the gym charter as a designer at cult.fit, and earlier still he was at topper and media.net. Atul is a graduate of NIFT Mumbai (Fashion Communication) and lectures on design at IITs, NIDs, and NIFTs across India.

You can read more about Atul at LinkedIn, X, Dribbble, Behance, and Medium.

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