E52 – Top Secret Offices

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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