HOW THE COST OF COKE IN AUSTRALIA SET GODOCTOR CO-FOUNDER ‘AJ’ ON HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY

At the age of 33, Anubhav “AJ” Jain – a serial entrepreneur who ‘cut his teeth’ in Australia – has achieved an enviable level of success steering companies in a range of markets, including computer hardware, mobile apps, medtech and health products.

Jain’s latest venture is GoDoctor, an online network he co-founded with his friends Rahul Shokeen and Nalin Ahuja in April 2015. Headquartered in Singapore, with offices in the UAE, India, and the US, the company is – in Jain’s words – “like LinkedIn and Facebook but exclusively for collaboration and knowledge sharing in the global medical community”.

Jain spoke to Dynamic Business about his journey from Africa to India and then Australia, where he founded his first company aged 20. He also discussed the experiences in his youth that determined his life path, the role UTS Insearch played in helping him overcome an early career roadblock and GoDoctor’s traction so far.

DB: What sparked your interest in business and technology?

Jain: When I was 13, my father gave me an Apple Laptop. That sparked a fascination with the usefulness of such machines, from entertaining people through to assisting them to carry out basic tasks and work out complex problems. Aged 14, I secured a three-month internship at Xerox, which gave me experience in data management with a multinational company. Next, aged 16, I undertook a three-month internship with Electronic Data Systems, doing quality assurance. These experiences made me realise how much I enjoyed working with the intangible and tackling critical business challenges. Read more

James Harkness - Dynamic Business - 5 Apr 2018