MIT Bootcamps: Building a Purpose-Driven Business by Priyanka Bakaya of Renewlogy

Building a business that is driven by a purpose deeper than profits can present its own unique opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs. How do you navigate the tradeoffs between purpose and profit? How can you use your passion for your purpose in a way that also helps the bottom line? How can you use purpose to differentiate yourself in the market place?

In this E-Seminar, we will explore how pivoting towards purpose can have a powerful impact on your enterprise, when the right processes are in place.

Priyanka Bakaya is the Founder and CEO at Renewlogy, a firm dedicated to renewing all types of waste. Renewlogy has three key initiatives through which it fulfills its core mission: Renewlogy Energy, Renewlogy Waste Zero, and Renewlogy Oceans. Through these initiatives Renewlogy helps cities and companies meet their zero waste goals, prevent waste from entering oceans, and provides companies with solutions to create higher value products from hard-to- recycle plastics.

Bakaya has worked at Venture Capital firms Accel Partners and Globespan Capital, as well as with DFJ-backed Attero Recycling. Bakaya has previously been selected as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a Lightspeed Venture Fellow and a Laureate for the Cartier Women’s Global Initiative. She has been named to the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch List, and Forbes 30 under 30 List in Energy. She is a graduate of MIT Sloan and Stanford University with Honors.

MIT Bootcamps is an immersive, intensive, experiential MIT program for global innovators. At the Bootcamp you will learn entrepreneurial problem discovery and problem solving that MIT is known for. This toolkit will give you the power to seek real problems, develop superior solutions, and design ventures that are sustainable for your team, your customers, and the world.

You will also join a tight-knit, lifelong and growing community of over 1,000 innovators selected by MIT from over 100 countries.

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