Listed
by Forbes as one of Asia's most influential under 30-year olds: Samyak leads X
Billion Labs - an ecosystem of futuristic impact enterprises. Currently he is
working towards solving India's un-employability crisis through Skills Lab. His
aim is to re-imagine activism and what impact means in the context of present
age realities such as artificial intelligence, big data, climate change,
unemployment, data driven capitalism & widening inequality.
In the
past: he built India's first youth marketing & research consultancy,
partnered with organizations like the United Nations to engage students with
the Sustainable Development Goals, hosted Indo:Pak Youth Peace Summits &
even popularized the concept of Model UNs as his first business venture at the
age of 18.
He
also founded The Green Batti Project which provided positive adult role models
(mentors) to students from lower income groups, Nimaya: a seed fund for women
entrepreneurs in slums and Operation Black Dot to enable lakhs of college
students to caste an informed vote.