Nirav Tolia
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Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- Published
- September 15, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 8m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 24, 2026
Discusses Many of us don’t know our neighbors anymore — and Nirav Tolia wanted to change that. He walked away …
Summary
Many of us don’t know our neighbors anymore — and Nirav Tolia wanted to change that. He walked away from millions in stock options at Yahoo and eventually co-founded Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network where neighbors share local news and recommendations. Along the way, he learned that for a digital service, Nextdoor demanded a ton of manual work: dra…
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Many of us don’t know our neighbors anymore — and Nirav Tolia wanted to change that. He walked away from millions in stock options at Yahoo and eventually co-founded Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network where neighbors share local news and recommendations. Along the way, he learned that for a digital service, Nextdoor demanded a ton of manual work: drawing neighborhood boundaries with Sharpies, sending individual “invite” postcards by snail mail, talking to neighbors about the information the