{"id":19763,"date":"2011-08-28T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/naveen-jain-innovation-can-solve-the-worlds-problems\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:19:57","slug":"naveen-jain-innovation-can-solve-the-worlds-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/naveen-jain-innovation-can-solve-the-worlds-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Naveen Jain: Innovation can solve the world\u2019s problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Naveen Jain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Naveen Jain has spent the bulk of his entrepreneurial career developing Internet search technologies, from the early days at InfoSpace to the founding of online background check service Intelius.<\/p>\n

But Jain is now putting his time (and money) into very different pursuits, including space travel and digital health. In fact, Jain is now promoting the \u201cDigital Doctor X-Prize Challenge\u201d \u2014 a $1 million competition in which technologists are encouraged to develop a system in which a \u201cminimally trained person\u201d can accurately diagnose respiratory problems, water-borne illnesses and other diseases.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t stop there. The Internet entrepreneur \u2014 whose career has been marked with controversy \u2014 also writes on his Web site that he\u2019s trying to develop \u201cNeuroscience based multi-sensory video games\u201d that will be used to teach kids math, science and history. (Reading, he says, is not a natural way for humans to learn). And then there\u2019s Jain\u2019s new role as co-founder of space exploration company Moon Express, which is attempting to mine the moon for precious metals. (We previously wrote about that effort in April).<\/p>\n

Jain \u2014 who founded InfoSpace in 1996 after a 7-year stint at Microsoft \u2014 has always been a passionate and driven entrepreneur (some may say too much so). But what\u2019s sparking all of the new ideas?<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old tells VentureBeat\u2019s Dean Takahashi that he grew up very poor in India and that the U.S. has given him an opportunity to impact billions of people through innovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find that if I can use the innovation and entrepreneurship to make an impact on billion people\u2019s life I will have done the best I could do in terms of giving back and pay my debts,\u201d Jain tells VentureBeat, adding that \u201cthere\u2019s no problem that\u2019s large enough that could not be solved through innovation and entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Takahashi\u2019s interview with Jain:<\/p>\n

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