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Founding Stories - PURPOSE: Founding for Impact at the 2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival

Friday April 13th, 2018 | The Paramount Theater

Are tech and business healing our world or exploiting it? These founders have found a way to combine the scale and ingenuity of private enterprise with social good. Learn how they have built strategies that recognize the two as mutually reinforcing.

Moderator: Mark Brzezinski , Makena Capital, Ambassador

Speaker: Renee Diresta , Head of Policy, Data for Democracy | Zac Bookman , OpenGov, CEO and Co-Founder

Sponsors: UVA McIntire School of Commerce Galant Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

tomtomfest.com/founding-stories