With a passion for sustainable business, Jared formed his own startup for sustainability products during his undergraduate career. His most recent product is one that aims at preventing one of the most littered products in the world, cigarette butts. Jared is passionate about business model competitions, pitch competitions, and any entrepreneurial initiative with a positive impact. He also was selected as the Up to Us summer intern in the summer of 2016 where he helped innovate the competition’s program design. Jared’s team has made the Top 20 and Top 10 during the past three years in the competition.