SARVPRIYA SRIVASTAVA

A SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR, WITH A CIVIC MINDSET

SARVPRIYA SRIVASTAVA

CEO

THE IVY DREAM

Sarvpriya is a serial entrepreneur who is currently the CEO of a US-based elite admissions consulting firm, The Ivy Dream, which propels its clients into top American universities by crafting authentic and powerful narratives. She is also the founder of Sparks NGO, which facilitates one-on-one career mentorship to young girls in small cities and villages.

Sarvpriya is a first-generation entrepreneur with a discerning eye for turning pain points into business opportunities. She loves the pursuit of solving problems, which has led her to found and run various business and altruistic ventures.

She uses her head to follow her heart and believes that having the privilege of using her intelligence to build her dreams and watch her ideas translate into reality has helped her break mental shackles and made her believe that anything is possible if you can muster the courage to dream big.

In this interview, Sarvpriya shares her career and professional journey. She also gives a few tips to upcoming entrepreneurs.

Could you give a brief overview about your career journey?

I have been an entrepreneur much before I understood what it meant to be one. My professional journey began in my second year of BTech when I had spotted a pain point.

My college had abruptly stopped selling textbook-sets along with the tuition, leaving my juniors scrambling. Fortunately, I had still kept my entire Year-1 text-bookset in my hostel room and I offered to sell it at half the original price to one of my juniors at the girl's hostel.