H o n o r St r at e gi c Ent r e pr e ne u r shi p It’s right there on his LinkedIn profile: Peregrinator, Not All Who Wander Are Lost. Tom Hyland ’95 certainly meets the definition of a peregrinator, or traveler: A decade ago, he dropped everything to ride the rails of the Eastern World, spending most of his time in remote villages located well off the beaten path.
Tom Hyland ’95 is working to bring the strength of capital markets to some of the poorest corners of the globe, recasting venture capitalism to provide such basic services as education and health care.
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estimates are correct, it was the largest gathering of people on the planet ever on a single day,
bar none. On a Sunday in February,
30 million people in India gathered to bathe in one of the most sacred places in all of Hinduism — the confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges, and ancient Saraswati rivers.
Yes, that’s correct. One day
recently in India, 30 million people arrived to wash off their sins in a river confluence made sacred by a
Venture Capitalism for a Better World few drops of mythical nectar.
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