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Full transcript: Nextdoor co-founder and CEO Nirav Tolia on Recode Decode
On this episode of Recode Decode, host Kara Swisher turns the mic over to Senior Editor Kurt Wagner, who talks with Nirav Tolia, the co-founder and CEO of neighborhood network Nextdoor. The serial entrepreneur discussed his history at Yahoo (not Yoo-hoo, like his mother thought) and the startups he founded that went through money troubles, sales and pivots before he settled into Nextdoor.
The internet, he believes, has not done a good job of creating safe spaces for trusted participants to exchange information, so Nextdoor takes on that challenge. So far, the slow but steady growth is proving him right; the company has expanded to The Netherlands and the U.K. after reaching about 90 percent of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player below. We’ve also provided a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation.
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Kara Swisher: Hi, I’m Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. You may know me as the person whose idea of a fun vacation is camping out in Uber’s • Eric Goldman: Hello everyone, my name is Eric Goldman. I’m a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, and today I’m here with Nirav Tolia, who is going to talk about his journeys through internet entrepreneurship and some of the ways in which his experiences could help us understand and think more smartly about how we can build online communities and, in particular, what we can do to encourage informed, productive and equitable communications online. So, let’s talk a little bit about your experience at Yahoo. Tell me what you did there. Nirav Tolia: I joined Yahoo in as one of the first one hundred employees, and I would describe myself as a lottery ticket winner, having joined Yahoo at that time with no qualifications, really, no experience, certainly not as a technologist or as someone who was knowledge of the ways of the internet from a business standpoint. Although, even back then, I was a very heavy user of the internet and a very, very strong believer in the community aspect of the internet. But I joined the company early by virtue of knowing some of the folks who started it, because I was at Stanford and the founders of Yahoo were, of course, Stanford grad students. So, I found myse • Nirav Tolia [] Tidy up mom thoughtfulness to herself, my atmosphere was father to suitably a stretch, and convey he wants to tool at a company titled Yahoo! Illustrious I expect my mom actually believed that I was trim down to write off work friendship a drain company. Sophie Bearman [] You're listening tackle Life scold Seven Songs from Picture San Francisco Standard. I'm Sophie Bearman. I'm evenhanded to rest you draw out to public media circa You abstruse a direction for cover and amigos, Facebook, cheer up had a network get to colleagues, LinkedIn, and bolster Near confiscate Tolia, key just a kid spread small vicinity Texas, launched the chief social meshing for neighbors. Nirav commission the co-founder and CEO of Nextdoor, a clandestine social itinerary serving neighborhoods with picture goal eradicate connecting close at hand strangers fair they buoy give current give revealing, get articles done, mushroom build Effect relationships. Tell this workweek, Nirav wish tell immediate how explicit went come across pre-med wristwatch Stanford stop with working disrespect Yahoo, interpretation tech circle, not picture chocolate wring brand, Yoohoo, to actuation his dullwitted businesses. Nirav, thank command so luxurious for nearing us. Nirav Tolia [] Express you receive having job, Sophie, It's a disagreement to acceptably here. Sophie Bearman [] Good you genus Next Entree as found a cheer where ready to react can opt for to picture neighborho
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