Ankur Jain
I build higher education in Bharat.
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Elevate Education. We partner with colleges and universities across India to run programmes under our brands, and pool placement across the whole network so a student in one city is seen by recruiters hiring for all of them. I also write, host a show about student founders, and build a stack of agents that runs most of my working life.
Recent writing
Substack18 Aug 2026
Everyone Who Will Turn 18 in India Before 2044 Has Already Been Born
Their number is published, it is falling, and almost nobody who sells to them has looked.
Substack
21 Jul 2026
Why our NPS is negative, and why I’ve stopped trying to make it positive
What running a multi-campus education operation taught me about the one metric everyone misreads.
Substack
4 May 2026
Who Pays When It Goes Wrong?
Why the same decision is reversible for some and permanent for others.
Substack
23 Apr 2026
Have You Earned the Right to Be Impersonal Yet?
Scaling the business before earning the right to scale the trust.
Substack
Elsewhere on this site
Speaking
Stages and sessions
Keynotes, panels and campus sessions, with what exists afterwards and what does not.
Open →Press
4 itemsCoverage
Interviews and appointments in the trade and business press.
Open →Show
Campus2CEO
A show about college students who build companies before they graduate. I host it.
Open →AI
The agents I build
A trading agent on paper, a reel factory, a recipe archive, and the stack that runs my week.
Open →Media
Video and podcasts
Recorded panels, interviews and guest appearances.
Open →Connect
Request a meeting
City-level requests, reviewed by me. Not an open calendar.
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