Nooks co-founder and CEO Sean Blackman spills all thesecrets about what it takes to do classified business with the Pentagon.
Nooks is a venture-backed startup founded in 2021 to solve amassive pain point: access to classified offices and networks to perform sensitive national security work.
Nooks is attacking the problem in an innovative way called Classified-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS), which is a subscription access to a nationwide network of classifiedworkspaces and IT.
If you are in the defense industry—or even thinking about it—and there is even a sliver of a chance you will touch classified work, this episode is everything you need to know.
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00:00
00:46 intro
01:49 Nooks
02:52 origin story
09:49 name and logo
12:30 locations and spaces
13:30 location and the real value unlock
17:57 COVID
19:20 fractional labs
20:06 fundraising for a weird company
22:01 information disadvantage
23:33 myth of hiring security clearances
30:00 SCIF
34:09 mobile SCIF
39:23 touchpoints and impact
42:13 security in shared spaces
46:48 the real impact
47:36 magic wand - crystal ball
49:50 make the problem go away
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