Thought Behind Things
500+ long-form conversations with the people building the future.
500+ deep-dive interviews across boardrooms, cabinet rooms, factory floors, and lecture halls. Founders raising their first million sit next to CEOs running multi-billion-dollar groups; federal ministers sit next to PhD economists. The longest-running long-form conversation in Pakistan, and the one most operators are listening to.
The most recent episodes.
Five episodes that show the range: a 40-billion-rupee tech founder, the CEO of Unilever Pakistan, an industrialist who built DESCON, a late-night satirist, and Pakistan's loudest critic of Islamic banking.
Hassan Munj on why AI needs intent, not more noise
with Hassan Munj
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IlmVerse: sourced Islamic answers from scholars, not guesswork
with Shahbaaz Khan
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Blink's Syed Sair Ali on digitising Pakistan's restaurants
with Syed Sair Ali
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A Bahawalnagar engineer built his career in open source
with Farhan Ali Raza
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Why domain expertise now beats coding for building products
with Shayan Baig
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36:48 Ten investors told him he was too young. He built Food Loot anyway.
with Hasan Haji
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AI services, not software, are the new gold mine
with Mustafa Hanif
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Reyhan Khan on remote work, AI systems and building a life abroad
with Reyhan Khan
Listen →Six years, sorted into subjects.
The full archive is browseable by theme instead of a 535-card dump. Open any subject for every episode in it.
Pakistan's Economy
233Budgets, debt, exports, manufacturing — and the people who actually move the numbers.
See all 233 →Founders & Startups
197How Pakistan's operators are actually building — from first cheque to nine-figure exits.
See all 197 →Politics & Policy
70Cabinet rooms, courts, parties, and the policy decisions that shape 250 million people.
See all 70 →Tech, AI & the Future
108Where Pakistan's tech industry is heading — the engineers, the platforms, and the AI shift.
See all 108 →Foreign Affairs & Geopolitics
51Pakistan's place in a multi-polar world — China, the Gulf, the West, and what comes next.
See all 51 →Money, Investing & Career
81Real estate, stocks, freelancing, and the financial decisions that compound over decades.
See all 81 →Culture, Sport & Creators
190Comedians, athletes, film-makers, podcasters — the storytellers shaping the country's identity.
See all 190 →Never miss a conversation.
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