Saurabh Jain

Saurabh is an educationist with a very interesting career graph.
He started C programming at the age of 12 years to build a computer game. Being a maker at heart he did not want to pursue engineering degree since it meant doing less research and doing more academic stuff. Instead he chose one of the finest degree's in commerce available in India. That way he got 10 months a year to make things using information technology.

These days Saurabh Jain is the founder of Fun2Do Labs. Fun2Do Labs is an open education project which believes in the motto - 'Making education OPEN and FUN!'. Fun2Do Labs project focuses on K-10 education.

Saurabh likes reading a lot and reads 50 books a year. He has read books of all major educationists like Vygotsky, Piaget, Papert, Dewey etc.

Saurabh is also heading the 'Paytm - Build for India' initiative by Paytm. This initiative wants to promote grass root innovation in India. Paytm is a fast growing unicorn startup out of India.

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