By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: Another cool story is [about] a friend of ours, Ben Lewis. Ben is a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and he started a company called Give Water, or PurBlu Beverages, [with] one of their products being Give Water.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the benefits of being a Kairos Society fellow? Ankur: For example, one of the most exciting things we did, this past September, was we took 50 of our fellows to China with Alibaba.com. We took them to look at U.S.–China trade opportunities.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: The goal to take some of these students who would have otherwise gone the traditional corporate route and get them to embrace this idea that with a community of like-minded peers, knowing they have the support and guidance of top mentors from around the world, [they
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: Today, in this interconnected world, you can have a Chinese entrepreneur start a company with an American entrepreneur. You can take the best of both countries to create a single company that’s inherently multinational and multicultural. This product can be, from day one, sold in two
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Ankur Jain, a 20-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and founder and president of the Kairos Society. (Kairos, in Greek, means “the right moment.”) Ankur’s vision is to shift students’ perception about the business world – to not depend on others