March 16, 2022

Sophie Adelman- Co founder, The Garden and Multiverse

48 minutes

Today’s guest is Sophie Adelman, who is a member of that exclusive club: a serial entrepreneur.

Her first business, Multiverse, created alternative routes into the world of work via apprenticeships and raised over $130 million, transforming the world of education-technology during the process.

Her new venture, The Garden, brings the experts & academics out of the institutions, enabling you to learn from true experts who have dedicated their lives to studying a subject. Through interactive live talks, their aim is to create a community of inquisitive minds in a world of misinformation and alternative facts.

In this episode we discuss with Sophie:

Where the name of The Garden comes from and what it does

How to build a team from scratch and how to hire great people

Fundraising with the benefit of doing it a second time

Why she’s doing it all again in creating another startup

What makes a good co-founder and the crucial aspect of shared values.

Highlights of The Garden so far

What are her key takeaways for first-time founders

Creating peer networks instead of mentors

Her time at multiverse and what it does

Her reflections on early hires and learnings for other entrepreneurs

Taking the MBA route at Stanford and what we can learn from Valley culture

Taking creative arts more seriously

The importance of asking ‘Why’

The talks you can access on The Garden

If she was 22 in 2022, where Sophie would start her career

Pass the mic- who would be an entrepreneur Sophie wants to shine a light on?

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