S10 E28: Kavitta Ghai, Nectir
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
4.6 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Kavitta Ghai realized at an early age that she thought different than everyone else. She grew up neurodivergent, with autism and ADHD but was a lucky kid, having parents that helped her see the silver lining in her learning challenges, making sure she had outlets in extracurricular activities. She is a creative person always looking to build something that doesn't exist. In her off time, she enjoys turning off all the tech, learning a new language, and reconnecting with the real, analog world.
Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school.
This is the creation story of Nectir.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rohan Kare Mandy. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Phil Hawthorne, and we're the hosts of the Home Assistant podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | We're guessing you're into technology. |
| 0:06.5 | Home Assistant is the number one open source contributor project on GitHub, with a focus on privacy and local control. |
| 0:12.5 | Join us every other week as we'll break down the latest features of Home Assistant |
| 0:16.0 | and talk to everyday users who are automating their lives with Home Assistant. |
| 0:19.5 | From feeling like you're living in Star Trek with lights turning on in rooms when you walk in, |
| 0:24.9 | to automating, flushing the toilet. |
| 0:27.0 | Home Assistant can integrate with virtually anything, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've interviewed everyday people like yourselves, |
| 0:32.1 | and that have done some pretty crazy automations. |
| 0:34.5 | Listen to the Home Assistant Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, |
| 0:37.3 | or find us on |
| 0:38.3 | YouTube or visit home assistant.fm. |
| 0:45.0 | And so I approached UCSB. |
| 0:47.5 | Why can't you put better technology in all of our classes and why not Slack? |
| 0:51.7 | They kindly sat me down and walked me through the logistical hell. |
| 0:55.7 | They basically said it sounds good in theory, but it would never work because Slack isn't built |
| 1:00.9 | for schools. And I said, but what if it was? If you had a magic wand and you actually could |
| 1:06.1 | make a platform like this that scales across the entire campus, integrates with all the technologies |
| 1:10.9 | that you currently use, what would it look like? Tell me and I'll build it. And that's exactly |
| 1:16.1 | what we did. My name is Kavita Guy and I am the co-founder and CEO at Nectra. |
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