Ajay is the Founder & CEO of Perfect Search. He’s passionate about digital marketing, traveling, and talking up the benefits of merino wool. Ajay is personally and professionally driven by his four pillars of happiness: gratitude, friendship and family, to do more and experience more, and to help others.
Growing up, I was never a big reader. I credit my lack of reading as a child to my perfect vision and my athletic prowess. Later in life, my friends joked that I was the first individual to finish law school without ever having completed a full book. This may or not be true.
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to have both formal and informal mentors in my life. In addition to these meaningful relationships, I’ve also been involved in more structured mentorship programs, like my connections with 1871, the shared office space in Chicago, and the Entrepreneurs’ …
It’s been about a year and a half since I realized I had not left the country in seven years. Coincidentally, I had that moment of awareness on the very same day that Perfect Search moved into our new (and perfect!) office. Starting a new chapter of my life and my business was clearly on my mind …
In January of 2014, I was considering what my newly begun year would be like while 39,000 feet in the air. I was on a flight to Miami and New Years’ resolutions were on my mind. Of course, everyone remembers all of their failed resolutions of years past. Some of my own failed resolutions are an …
I always thought I was good at managing relationships. (Of course, ping-pong is probably my strongest suit—I win approximately 99% of the time in the office. Yes, we have statistics. Don’t you?) Then I met Kasey and Mike, founders of Packback, a Chicago-based e-textbook rental startup. You may …
I think I’m addicted to Uber. I use the service at least once a day…and that’s just a minimum. The service has allowed me to change what I define as my commute time – now my commute starts with the time I get up. Beyond that, Uber has become useful to me for so many reasons, and it’s hard to …