In 2011, Inc magazine called Ankur Jain “the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World,” and I’m beginning to see why. Soon after getting on the phone with Fast Company, Jain promises access to Mehmet Oz, Bobbi Brown, and President Vicente Fox (of Mexico). Within hours, they are all on the line, and, apparently, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Verizon president Ronan Dunne, and ex-Greece prime minister George Papandreou are waiting in the wings, if needed.

Jain is the cofounder of the Kairos Society, a nonprofit that promotes social entrepreneurship among young people. He’s lined up these personalities to help promote a new project he’s launching: a $25 million startup investment fund taking on middle-class problems, like affordable housing and expensive eldercare. We’re not sure exactly what Mehmet Oz, Bobbi Brown, and Vicente Fox have to do with any of this. But it’s certainly nice to make acquaintances with people of caliber, so to speak.

Brown, Oz, and Fox praise Jain’s ability to attract and retain high-profile people to his cause, and they echo his message about the importance of entrepreneurship that solves problems, rather than making life slightly less inconvenient. Fox says of Jain: “He’s a very different, outstanding person who has those skills and that ability to be around big partners and personalities and to make them feel very secure.”

Read the full article about Ankur Jain's efforts on affordable housing and eldercare by Ben Schiller at fastcompany.com.