In 2007, America was rocking on its heels from a recession that it hasn’t quite emerged from in 2010. Most college students had no idea what they were going to do for a job. Ankur Jain saw it a little differently. Instead of finding a job, he figured one should found a business. However, he also saw that the big business on Wall Street was crumbling from scandal after scandal as the stories began to pour out telling of back-room deals and money-hungry executives who had climbed on the backs of the their fellow Americans to make their fortunes. He knew there had to be a middle ground between making money and civic responsibility, and founded the Kairos Society with the motto of “Doing Well By Doing Good.”
Kairos means “the right moment” and while the recession seemed to most Americans to be the time to cut expenses anywhere they could, Ankur Jain saw an opportunity for businesses to start and grow knowing that Microsoft, Apple, and CNN had all been founded in similar situations. The Society has grown in prominence since its inception from being featured on CNN Money to expanding across 18 of Americas top universities.
One of the underpinnings of the Kairos Society is to bridge the gap between the experience of today’s leader and the innovations of tomorrow’s trailblazers. The society has combined such influences as Bill Clinton and William Gates, Sr. with young entrepreneurs of products ranging from a no-emissions motorcycle to shock absorbers that translate vertical motion in to power cell recharging (currently being tested in Iraq).
Ankur Jain has followed his own advice. In addition to helping the Kairos Society grow, he has also been involved in working internships for non-profit organizations such as the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation and participating in the prestigious Singularity University Summer Program in preparation for his 2011 graduation from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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