How Profitability Will Be Our Planet’s Best Insurance
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The mission for the rising generations is to solve the present existential global crises. Consumers worldwide have started minding their habits stronger year by year, and as a consequence, are rewarding companies with a positive societal and environmental impact. This trend has not gone unnoticed by companies and VCs. Vishal Vasishth, Co-founder and Managing Director at Obvious Ventures, Ela Madej, Founding Partner at Fifty Years, and Erik Engellau-Nilson, CEO at Norssken, talk about how can profits go hand in hand with positive impact. -- In 2017, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,600 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to a week long celebration (27.11.-1.12.), including Slush Music, new Slush Y verticals, and hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush Week 2018 takes place on 4.–5.12.2018. Slush 2017 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Music: http://music.slush.org Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.