Beauty and the Beast: Creative Entrepreneurship in the Art World: Aditya Julka at TEDxChelsea

Aditya Julka's talk at the TEDxChelsea conference, held June 1, 2012 at the School of Visual Arts. The conference theme was "The true value of art is seldom what someone is willing to pay for it." For more information or to apply for 2013, please go to TEDxChelsea.org.
Aditya Julka is the co-founder of Paddle8, a global online art marketplace and transaction platform launched in the second quarter of 2011. He is a serial entrepreneur with a history of successful start-ups, and a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he obtained his MBA with High Distinction and graduated as a Baker Scholar. Before joining HBS, Aditya was a co-founder of InBioPro, a biotech start-up based in Bangalore, India, and a co-founder of BioAtlantis, an Irish biotech start-up. Before joining BioAtlantis, Aditya was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Asia, where he served clients in the pharmaceutical, banking, and public sector spaces. He obtained his undergraduate degree and graduate degree in Biochemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he was the recipient of the Director's Gold Medal for being the best all-round student in the graduating class.
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