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Passionate about increasing the ties between scientists and entrepreneurs, Bradoo set up student-led startup initiative Spark.!
What goes around
Privahini Bradoo ditched a promising career in neuroscience to find a solution for electronic waste.
Andrew Gorrie
At 16, Privahini Bradoo had it all planned out.
She left her family, friends and adopted home of Oman for the University of Auckland, where she powered through a four-year biotechnology degree in three and acquired the wide vowels of a New Zealander. Then, under the supervision of Sir Peter Gluckman, she discovered a gene responsible for brain repair, received a PhD at 24, won a Fulbright.
Dr Privahini Bradoo, CEO of e-waste company BlueOak was the keynote speaker at EPIC NZ Auckland Born in Oman, she has travelled widely and is.
Along the way, her academic future gradually became unstuck. Through a mentor at the university, she found herself included in a group seeking to encourage entrepreneurship among students. At first, it wasn’t a natural fit.
“I thought business was the dark side,” she says over the phone from San Francisco.
“In one of the early meetings, people were talking about pitching to VCs [venture capitalists] for money, and I remember thinking, ‘Why would the