Author Archives: amol

About amol

Founder, builder, philosopher.

Product idea: visual recognition cameras

Here’s a start up that somebody has surely started already, that will be a powerful feature of smartphones in the future. The camera already puts a square around faces. It already tags your geolocation. Apple Photos already collects images under

Product idea: visual recognition cameras

Here’s a start up that somebody has surely started already, that will be a powerful feature of smartphones in the future. The camera already puts a square around faces. It already tags your geolocation. Apple Photos already collects images under

Whose job is equality anyway?

I have been doing this series of dinners and lunches focused on women leaders. Several different aims, of which one is “learn about the way women prefer to work, and what that means for me”. The future is female, after

Whose job is equality anyway?

I have been doing this series of dinners and lunches focused on women leaders. Several different aims, of which one is “learn about the way women prefer to work, and what that means for me”. The future is female, after

Gender mix and Net Promoter check-in: how it’s going

About 5 months ago I started a few projects to fix the gender-mix of my network which was 80/20 male/female. The projects: Monthly Third Thursday Lunch for Women Founders and Rising Stars. When I’m introduced to women, I invite them

Gender mix and Net Promoter check-in: how it’s going

About 5 months ago I started a few projects to fix the gender-mix of my network which was 80/20 male/female. The projects: Monthly Third Thursday Lunch for Women Founders and Rising Stars. When I’m introduced to women, I invite them

Letter from Berkshire’s Omaha Meeting

For the last several years I’ve been a Berkshire shareholder and also attendee at “Woodstock for Capitalism”, the Berkshire Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, NE. What happened this year? It’s always interesting. It’s better in longer form — the news snippets

Letter from Berkshire’s Omaha Meeting

For the last several years I’ve been a Berkshire shareholder and also attendee at “Woodstock for Capitalism”, the Berkshire Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, NE. What happened this year? It’s always interesting. It’s better in longer form — the news snippets

Videos of me speaking for press or conference

Cheddar Amol Sarva, CEO of Knotel, regarding future of office and flexible workspaces December 2017 Bloomberg Technology Knotel CEO Says Company Plans to Expand Internationally August 2017 Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design Dr. Amol Sarva – Build More, Build Faster

Videos of me speaking for press or conference

Cheddar Amol Sarva, CEO of Knotel, regarding future of office and flexible workspaces December 2017 Bloomberg Technology Knotel CEO Says Company Plans to Expand Internationally August 2017 Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design Dr. Amol Sarva – Build More, Build Faster

Accelerator Awesome coming June 29th

The Work Awesome series continues in June with Accelerator Awesome. Are you a corporate innovation leader? Join us. Email me — [email protected]  

Accelerator Awesome coming June 29th

The Work Awesome series continues in June with Accelerator Awesome. Are you a corporate innovation leader? Join us. Email me — [email protected]  

Equity or Rent?

“Lease –> same effective grant as your vp of engineering ” They are spending $1.3M unnecessarily over 2 years (10k sf x $65/sf) so that by yr 3 they have room to grow for years 4 and 5…  and will have a

Equity or Rent?

“Lease –> same effective grant as your vp of engineering ” They are spending $1.3M unnecessarily over 2 years (10k sf x $65/sf) so that by yr 3 they have room to grow for years 4 and 5…  and will have a

The world needs more robots

There is a population shortage As I had said  As Ruchir of Morgan Stanley has said above  

The world needs more robots

There is a population shortage As I had said  As Ruchir of Morgan Stanley has said above  

Does regulation work *well enough*? >updated<

Controversy this month about privacy in the tech world. Urgent crisis, brewing for 2 decades. Companies are taking all the information about us and using our identities against us. So are state actors and other malicious agents. Headlines! World leaders

Does regulation work *well enough*? >updated<

Controversy this month about privacy in the tech world. Urgent crisis, brewing for 2 decades. Companies are taking all the information about us and using our identities against us. So are state actors and other malicious agents. Headlines! World leaders