David Chu is a senior at Brown University and cofounder of Sift, a thrift ecommerce startup. He highlights how the momentum behind thrifting requires us to reimagine the way we think of new and usedgoods with sustainability and accessibility at the forefront. With a circular economy approach, we have the potential to transform the future of shopping and consumption as we know it. David Chu is currently a senior at Brown University studying Computer Science Economics. David is the CoFounder of Sift, an AIenabled platform enhancing accessibility to secondhand products as an alternative to fastfashion. Sift and David have been spotlighted in the Boston Globe, Rhode Island Business Journals, Hult Prize Global Accelerator, and he was named to RI Inno’s 5 under 25. David is interested in the circular economy and amazed by how technology can help accelerate its growth in the coming years. Beyond entrepreneurship, David is interested in global politics, having served as a Visiting Student at the University of Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx