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. 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 young person with a bias for action, get out of the way, and 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, and every recruiter sees the work. zero is the technological fulfillment of the TKS thesis.

What this hub is

This is zero's learn hub: honest, researched, sourced answers to the questions students face when the path from school to a real job stops working. The view here is that a degree certifies you passed a filter, not that you can do the work, and that proof of skill is what gets you hired now. The actual product lives at zero.university.