On Tues­day, March 20, dur­ing Spring Break, I par­tic­i­pated in a Princetern­ship at Vision­ary in New York City, hosted by Alex Salz­man ’07. Vision­ary is a recently founded com­pany that works to match busi­ness­peo­ple includ­ing investors and entre­pre­neurs, par­tic­u­larly those focus­ing on green tech, social entre­pre­neur­ship, and sustainability.

I came on the sec­ond day of the Wall Street Green Sum­mit, a con­fer­ence for peo­ple inter­ested in sus­tain­able and “green” finance. Vision­ary was host­ing a recep­tion after the event. My con­tri­bu­tion was to encour­age as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to attend.

I began in the morn­ing at the head­quar­ters in Brook­lyn where a team of employ­ees, mostly Prince­ton alumni, were call­ing invi­tees to fol­low up and encour­age atten­dance. I iden­ti­fied con­tacts and pre­pared mate­ri­als for the conference.

Julian, Alex Salz­man, and fel­low Princetern Kyle

Around lunchtime I moved to the con­fer­ence in Man­hat­tan, where I described the recep­tion to con­fer­ence atten­dees and pro­vided them with mate­ri­als and sur­veys about the event. After the con­fer­ence I attended the recep­tion and fur­ther described Vision­ary to atten­dees and encour­aged them to inves­ti­gate participation.

It was inter­est­ing and ener­giz­ing to expe­ri­ence the fast pace of a new startup. I quickly learned the fun­da­men­tals of the busi­ness so that I could describe Vision­ary, and the post-conference recep­tion, to con­fer­ence attendees.