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Zain Jaffer

Founder CEOZain Jaffer Foundation

Santa Clara, CA

Member Since February 2024

Skills

Angel Investing
Business Strategy
Real Estate

About

Zain Jaffer is a former Silicon Valley founder who co-founded the tech startup Vungle, which helped revolutionize the mobile app advertising industry. He runs Zain Ventures, a family office with a diverse investment portfolio in real estate, startup companies, and other assets. Outside his business pursuits, Jaffer is active in philanthropic initiatives through his non-profit, the Zain Jaffer Foundation. The Foundation aims to maximize Zain's platform to provide impactful support for deserving causes and bring about lasting change towards solving the biggest social issues of our time.

Published content

10 Ways to Keep Employees Invested in Your Company Long Term

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Learn what it takes to turn your workplace into an environment where employees want to grow their careers. As new generations enter the workforce, a shift in employee expectations has challenged traditional approaches to retention. Offering competitive salaries is no longer enough — today’s employees want more from their workplace experience. This changing environment has made long-term employee retention feel increasingly difficult for many businesses.  To help, Rolling Stone Culture Council members share what it takes to build a workplace where people want to stay and grow. Follow their recommendations to make your workplace a destination employees won’t want to leave.

11 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Online Brand Management

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Navigate around these common branding pitfalls to strengthen your reputation and boost audience engagement. For today's businesses, managing a strong online presence is just as important as delivering quality products or services. However, boosting your company’s brand can be difficult in a saturated online space, and there's no shortage of potential pitfalls that can undermine your reputation. Below, Rolling Stone Culture Council members explore common mistakes businesses make when promoting themselves online. Their insights can help you avoid these missteps, increase audience engagement and strengthen your brand’s overall marketability.

11 Effective Messages to Reassure Employees About AI and Job Security

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If your employees feel uncertain about how AI will impact their roles, here's how to frame communications to alleviate their concerns. In the last few years, AI has taken off in unexpected ways that have changed the way today's workforce operates. As a result, the fear of automation replacing tasks or entire jobs has become common among employees.  However, automation doesn't remove the need for the human touch — and, in fact, can be used to support employees in their day-to-day workflows. Below, Rolling Stone Culture Council members share reassuring messages that can help calm employees navigating these changes. With the right communications, employees can view AI not as a threat but as a tool to advance their careers and embrace new possibilities.

Art and Commerce Can Mix Well

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Artists shouldn't feel they need to abandon their ideals in order to find success in the industry.

15 Clever Techniques to Boost Focus and Productivity at Work

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These strategies can make it easier to break through productivity blocks and accomplish more during your workday. With the constant barrage of emails, meetings and distractions, finding real focus and productivity in your workday can be challenging. Many professionals struggle to maintain momentum long enough to finish a project. However, the right techniques can help boost concentration and productivity on even the busiest of workdays. Here, 15 Rolling Stone Culture Council members share their favorite techniques for staying on track and explain why these strategies work so well in a busy work environment. From using time-blocking methods to taking strategic breaks, these tactics can help boost focus and efficiency, even when you're in a productivity slump.

Lost Touch With a Professional Contact? 10 Ways to Rekindle Your Connection

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Just because you've fallen out of contact doesn't mean you can't reach out and pick up where you left off. Reconnecting with someone in your professional network after time apart can feel a bit awkward, but it’s also a valuable opportunity. Rekindling these relationships can open doors to new opportunities, collaborations and insights while strengthening your professional connection for the future. According to members of Rolling Stone Culture Council, reaching out in a thoughtful, genuine way can help you meaningfully rebuild those connections. If you’re looking to reestablish relationships within your network, these expert strategies can guide you toward doing so with authenticity and impact.

Company details

Zain Jaffer Foundation

Company bio

The Zain Jaffer Foundation is a non-profit founded to amplify those problems still unsolved—climate change, poverty, exploitation, discrimination—and accelerate our global progress. The foundation seeks to support important and imperative film and documentary programs that tackle urgent global issues for a worldwide audience. Through funding and mentorship, the foundation is designed to bring more of those projects to the big screen. Supporting a diverse array of initiatives, most of the funding is concentrated on projects addressing serious environmental and social challenges around the world, many of which have only increased in their urgency throughout the pandemic-era. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words; empowering frontier directors, film crews, and documentary projects is our attempt to get those pictures out to the world.

Industry

Television

Area of focus

STARTUP INVESTMENTS
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
ASSET MANAGEMENT

Company size

2 - 10