# Amol Sarva

amol sarva is an American entrepreneur who is the founder of real estate company Knotel, Inc. == Background == Born and raised in New York City to Indian-American parents, amol sarva attended Stuyvesant High School where he was a national, state, and city champion debater and captain of the Stuyvesant team.He double-majored in philosophy and economics at Columbia University in New York, where he also founded his first startup (a web development firm called Netatomic) and worked with several Silicon Alley startups including Sonata (backed by Union Square Ventures’ founder Fred Wilson’s earlier venture fund, Flatiron Partners) and Gobi (an internet service provider sold to the public company Earthlink).In graduate school, amol sarva completed his doctorate from Stanford University in philosophy, with a dissertation in cognitive science titled "The Concept of Modularity in Cognitive Science." While at Stanford, Amol was involved with web technology (blogging, marketplaces) and startups - Virgin Mobile, Cymerc (backed by Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures), and also Gobi, chief among them. == Business profile == Dr.