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FOUNDER STORY / Yajur Bajaj

I've always been drawn to building.

Startups. Products. Teams.
Communities. Careers.

India → Australia → Dubai

And eventually, Buildwise.

I'm Yajur Bajaj — AI Product Leader, entrepreneur, mentor and founder of Buildwise.

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Yajur Bajaj in a blazer at a cricket stadium
A builder. Still becoming.
7+ YearsIn Product & Building
3xFounder
Enterprise AI@ Dubai Holding
15K+People mentored, taught or reached through learning experiences
Top 1%Topmate Mentor
HackathonJudge
01 / Early Years

I have always
been a fighter.

Persistence and curiosity shaped me long before I knew where they would lead.

Keep going. Keep figuring it out.
A childhood photograph of Yajur in a playful fighting pose
The spirit was there from the beginning.
Yajur in Australia beside two performers dressed as kangaroos
Australia at 19 · a different kind of education.
02 / Australia

A different kind
of education.

Chitkara University
Western Sydney University

During my semester exchange at Western Sydney University, I worked part-time at Domino's and McDonald's alongside studying.

₹1,00,000My personal earnings target. I reached it.

Discipline, humility and the confidence that I could figure things out.

03 / Entrepreneurship

My first classroom
was entrepreneurship.

Yajur speaking into a microphone beside bicycles at a PedalPalz gathering
PedalPalz · bringing people together, one ride at a time.
01 / PedalPalz

Two wheels.
A whole community.

Cycles on rent. Community rides. My first lessons in execution.

CyclingCommunityOperations
02 / FitRev

From gyms to software.

A gym marketplace and management software. Learning B2B by doing.

MarketplaceB2BSoftware
The PedalPalz cycling community together outdoors
PedalPalz · a community we built together.

Ideas are easy. Execution changes everything.

04 / Finding Product

Then I found Product.

01

KYC Hub

Early Product Management

“The devil is in the details.”
02

HighRadius

Enterprise products

Credit Risk Management
03

Yocket

Internal products

Stakeholders → execution
04

Wealthy

Consumer FinTech

Research → launch
05

Builder.ai

Global partnerships

Partner platforms & internal systems
06

Dubai Holding

Enterprise AI

AITHER · Palantir
05 / Dubai
Yajur in a blazer, standing against a wood-panelled wall

India →
Dubai.

Dubai Holding 🇦🇪

Enterprise AI · AITHER · Palantir

Enterprise AI taught me to think bigger — about scale, stakeholders and real business problems.

Real EstateHospitalityCorporateInvestments
Yajur and colleagues gathered in a Dubai office
Dubai · building alongside people with different perspectives.
A team moment around a meeting table in Dubai
The human side of enterprise work.
06 / Teaching & Mentorship

I come from a
family of educators.

Professors and doctorates in my family made teaching and learning part of everyday life. Helping others grow felt natural.

Learning means more when you pass it on.
Yajur smiling with his family at home
The people who made teaching and learning part of my life.
06 / Teaching & Mentorship / Sharing what I learn

Teaching keeps me
close to the questions.

I've taught and mentored through Jobaaj Learnings, AirTribe, GUVI by HCL and Syntax Technologies. I also bring a 5/5 Topmate rating and Top 1% mentor recognition; these are credentials, not workshop outcomes.

Yajur listening to students explain their project on a laptop
Listening. Asking questions. Building perspective.
Yajur sharing product lessons with students
Sharing practical lessons with future builders.
Yajur at HackMol 6.0 at NIT Jalandhar
Hackathon judge · NIT Jalandhar
Jobaaj Learnings
AirTribe
GUVI by HCL
Syntax Technologies
Top 1%Topmate mentor recognition
5/5Topmate mentor rating
15K+People mentored, taught or reached through learning experiences
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Yajur with arms outstretched at a cricket stadium
Making room for the life I want to build.
07 / Ikigai

I had a career I liked.
But something was still missing.

I loved Product. I was good at it. It challenged me and paid me well. From startups to enterprise AI in Dubai, things were going well.

Am I creating the kind of value I actually want to create?

What I love

Building · Product · Teaching · Helping people

What I'm good at

Product thinking · 0→1 · People · Mentorship

What I can be paid for

Product · AI · Leadership · Building companies

What the world needs

Clarity · Guidance · Better builders · Better thinkers

Buildwise

Product gave me three of the four.

I loved it. I was good at it. It paid me well.

But I wanted my work to
help people more directly.

Mentoring showed me what it meant to help someone find clarity, build confidence and take their next step.

I chose alignment over comfort.

Beyond a high-paying Product and AI career in the UAE, I wanted to bring building, teaching and impact together.

I learned most of this
by figuring it out myself.

Building startups. Making mistakes. Moving countries. Finding mentors. Teaching others. Starting again.

I want to make that journey easier for someone else.

BuildLearnReflectBecome

08 / Why Buildwise

That's where
Buildwise comes from.

Product, AI, careers, teaching and helping people find clarity. The different parts of my journey finally coming together.

My Ikigai

Build things.
Help people.
Keep becoming wiser.

Helping ambitious people build better careers, products and versions of themselves.

Build Better. Think Wiser.

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