Sophie Adelman - Founder of The Garden
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?