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I arrive
Designed by two loving parents, Bart is released in Warsaw, Poland on the date of 11.11.1979.
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A New Land
The Skorupa clan leaves their native Poland to Champaign, Illinois. In the heartland of America, Bart 2.0 is raised bilingual and bicultural.
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University Days
Bart receives a Bachelor’s degree in Finance with an emphasis on Economics and German at the University of Illinois.
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Career Crossroads
After a prodigious career of management consulting helping Fortune 500 companies scale their business, Bart senses something fundamentally missing in his life.
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Vision loss
While volunteering in Madagascar, Bart develops an ulcer in right eye. A local doctors cuts of out the ulcer with a small knife. He is blinded.
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Newfound Vision
The doctor heals Bart’s eye and a greater vision is uncovered: there are leaders everywhere can who improve the wellbeing of people.
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Groundwork Opportunities (GO)
Together with Kyle Miller, Bart launches GO, a nonprofit that invests in global leadership with a $2,000 and an infinite amount of hope, naïveté, grit, and determination.
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GO Further
GO grows beyond their wildest dreams, raising $5M+ for global leaders creating world beyond poverty. Bart shares his lessons of successes + failures at SOCAP, Opportunity Collaboration, Summit Series, and Dreamforce. He is awarded a Cordes Fellowship and Dell honors him as one of the 25 World Changemakers.
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We Are One
Bart joins his life with Heather Grabowski in Zanzibar, surrounded by a circle of friends and family, their souls united for the rest of their lives.
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Start Something Good
Together with Seamus Harte, an instructor at the Stanford dschool, Bart launches Start Something Good to help others design and iterate a better human experience.
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Button It Up
Together with his wife Heather, the social venture Button It Up Events is launched to create and fulfill events that matter.
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