By Emily Rella
Naveen Jain is not your average entrepreneur or CEO.
In fact, he’s not your average billionaire either.
Sure, he’ll talk about his heavy-hitter friends on a first-name basis, like Bill and Jeff (it takes me a moment during our conversation to realize that the names in question are in fact Gates and Bezos), but there’s something about Jain’s demeanor and approach to his multi-million dollar businesses that make you feel like you’re talking to your cooler, wiser relative who’s doling out the life advice you’ve been needing to hear.
“I tell people that passion is for losers,” Jain tells me bluntly. “Passion is for hobbies. Entrepreneurs have obsession, obsession to solve a problem so much that they cannot go to sleep. They go to sleep thinking about it, they jump out of the bed thinking about it … ask yourself, what are you willing to die for? And then live for it.”…