After a blockbuster IT hiring venture, a disastrous offline education joint venture, and three near-death experiences as an entrepreneur, Sanjay Salunkhe started Jaro in 2009. Fourteen years later, he has built over a Rs100-crore edtech upskilling company that is bootstrapped, scaling rapidly and profitable
“Knowledge is like an underwear,” Nicky Gumbel once reportedly remarked. “It is useful to have it but not necessary to show off,” the Anglican priest and author is widely attributed to have shared this nugget of wisdom. Back in India, for over two decades, a first-generation entrepreneur from Maharashtra never paraded his knowledge undies.