Hello, 
I am Sajju Jain

I’ve spent much of my career in the gap between a great idea and something that actually works. Setting up factories, fixing supply chains, building teams, getting medical devices certified, opening distribution networks and, sometimes, admitting that my model simply isn’t working.

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I learnt entrepreneurship much earlier, at 18, building a computer assembly business from a garage in Bengaluru before leaving for the US to pursue my MBA. I returned to help transform my family business and build a new manufacturing operation from scratch.

 

At Embrace Innovations, I joined when the infant warmer was still a late-stage prototype. We had to turn it into a product that could be manufactured reliably, pass global quality standards and reach hospitals that needed it. Embrace’s warmers have since reached more than 1.3 million babies. At Sisu Global Health, I worked on a similar challenge but in a different setting: bringing a blood-recovery device prototype to market in Africa for hospitals where donor blood was often unavailable. Earlier, at d.light, I helped build the systems and distribution needed to get our affordable solar lights into homes without reliable electricity.

 

Not every venture worked. Standard Skills reached thousands of entrepreneurs, but it never became the focused, scalable organisation I had hoped for. 

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While much of my work has been about systems and execution, just as much has depended on building teams, mentoring people and bringing different groups around a shared purpose.

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Today, I work with senior corporate leaders on using AI to improve their high-value decisions, which in part helps fund AI education for rural communities. I serve on the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association, and am building my third venture to complete the incomplete mission of Standard Skills.

 

The work has changed over the years. The part I care about hasn’t: helping useful ideas survive the real world.