Nirav Tolia grew up in the remote oil-town of Odessa, Tex.-yes, the same Odessa of Friday Night Lights fame. When he arrived as a freshman at Stanford University, some fellow students shuddered at the prospect of small-town life. "That must have been terrible," he recalls them saying. Not so, says Tolia. "People knew each other and cared for each other." Tolia, 40, is trying to make those neighbor-to-neighbor connections more common with Nextdoor, the startup he co-founded in 2010.
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