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About
TKS takes the shape of a startup accelerator and points it at teenagers. Co-founder Navid Nathoo told the TechTO stage in March 2017 that the idea came from realising how much of his own path through Silicon Valley was accident, and that plenty of teenagers have the drive but no route to the opportunity. He described a 16-year-old in the Toronto program who went deep on neurology and ended up working on a new brain-imaging approach with a student he met there.
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Quick answers
What is The Knowledge Society?
An accelerator-style program for 13-to-17-year-olds that puts them in front of emerging technology and expects them to go deep on a real problem rather than complete a curriculum.
Who founded TKS?
Navid Nathoo and his brother Nadeem, in Toronto in 2016. Navid had previously built a cloud-security company in Silicon Valley that Box acquired; Nadeem left McKinsey to start TKS.
What is TKS's argument about innovation?
That the bar has been set too low — upgrades get called innovation. Navid Nathoo told TechTO that companies do not innovate, people do, and that it takes a mindset, finding what you love, and going deep enough to master it.