Robert S. Novakov

Scroll through my work in:

performance arts 🎭 (stand-up, theatre, music)
startups🚀 (intra & entrepreneurship)
new tech 🌍 (with our society and planet in mind).

Bio | 🇧🇬 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 Catch me saying silly stuff into a mic, or hear me talk about new ideas that make our world a better place. Bulgaria-born, raised in The Netherlands, based in London.

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Work 💼

Few professional highlights

Amazon Sustainability Accelerator 🌍

Berlin, Germany launch

As the Selection Lead of the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator, it was a pleasure to launch our 2024 Consumer Products in Berlin in September. At the accelerator we grow European startups from ideas to fully fledged businesses tackling widespread sustainability problems.

Forbes coverage 📜

Growing startups at Amazon

Forbes article on the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator. Interview with programme lead - Isobel Wilson about how myself and the team select start-ups to join our programme.

Podcast feature 🎙️:

Innovation in location, easy addresses with what3words 📍

"We are talking about innovation in location with Robert Novakov from what3words who have already integrated their location solutions with the likes of Mercedes Benz & Airbnb. Join Jason Morjaria from Commusoft for our first episode of season two where we are focussing on speaking to influential people and companies within tech and beyond!"

Entrepreneurship 🚀

My own stab at venture growth

Took 2 ventures from idea to a launched MVP: TopHat and Classmate. Awarded 1st place in the '48 hour start-up' competition hosted by King's Entrepreneurship Institute. Taking part in 2 startup accelerators, with one of the projects - mobile movie recommendation platform.

Research 💻

A deep dive into some favorite topics, with real-world examples

Artificial Intelligence

Overview of AI's history, analysis of its current level of development and forecast on the future of this prevalent technology.

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Financial Analysis (Netflix)

Deep dive into the financial statements of Netflix. Performing a strategy analysis, ratio analysis and peer comparisons to formulate a financial forecast.

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