Internship: This week I got a new task that I will do until the end of my internship. Fin+Tech has a new client call Lagardere Travel Retail which is a massive international vending machine company. They are looking for start-ups to help scale their business and implement new and innovative technology. My colleagues did the scouting for the company and my job is to deep dive further the 19 companies that they are interested in. I am responsible for preparing presentations for each of these start ups on information such as product/service description, features, value added, funding, costs, revenues, scoping match, status, current patents, etc.. The way I find this information is through the company website, crunchbase, LinkedIn, and google.

 

Class: In class this week we discussed a lot about corporations responsibility for labor rights and environmental impacts. On Wednesday we discussed and debated about the article on the Apple Case Study and their allegations about labor rights violations with their offshore suppliers at Foxconn and others. In my group, we discussed a lot about whether or not that Apple should be responsible for these labor rights issues, even though their suppliers are in a different company and are not legally employed by Apple. We largely sided with the fact that they are responsible because they are still condoning and furthering the labor violations by knowing that it is happening and still working with these companies while demanding small margins. In the same class, we also watched the article about the small town in Brazil called Barcarena which is located near the Amazon river. Due to its location near the Amazon which is rich of the materials to make aluminum, the town is severely contaminated with toxic chemicals. The company near the town that produces alumina denies all allegations. I think it is crazy that they can deny these allegations due to all of the evidence from the tests from the citizens of the town that show the toxic chemicals inside of them.

 

Exploring: On the weekend, Ava, Bella, Emily, and I flew to Paris. When we arrived very late Friday night, our hostel had lost our reservation, so they had to find a different available room for us. The room also did not end up having air conditioning, so we were sweating all night. On Saturday, we walked to a café and got brunch, and then went to the Lourve. We spent nearly four hours in Lourve, and then we went to Angelina’s to get hot chocolate. We then went home and took cold showers and got ready for dinner. We ended the day by watching the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night. Because of the marathon that day, it took almost an hour to get home. The next day at our last day in Paris, we went to Cedric Grodlet’s bakery and went to the famous starbucks for coffee. Then we went to the Sac ru cor and the arc de triumph. We ended the day by getting Chipotle and then made our way to the airport. Our flight was delayed two hours but we ended up getting home around 1am. The rest of the week I spent in my free time going to the gym, making food, and some of us hung out downstairs outside on Wednesday night.