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Thought Behind Things · Oct 17, 2025 · 1:38:30

How Dipitt got onto shelves in 33 countries

Dipitt founder Syed Zeeshan Haider walks Muzamil through leaving Philip Morris on a hunch, selling out at Karachi Eat, building a national sauce brand from a Karachi kitchen, and using the COVID supply-chain gap to land Dipitt in Tesco, Asda and 33 other export markets.

with Syed Zeeshan Haider

14 min read

A brand Muzamil had quietly been using for years

The episode opens with Muzamil framing the conversation as part of the running Endeavor Pakistan series — fifty of the most interesting startups and businesses in the country — and admitting something more personal. He had wanted to meet the man behind Dipitt for four or five years. He had used the product. He knew the brand. He did not know the founder until Endeavor’s team connected them.

The number that comes up off-camera, and that he repeats on the record, is the one he could not stop thinking about: Dipitt is exporting to thirty-three countries. By the brand’s own data they are the number one sauce company in Pakistan, and within the broader condiments universe — where National Foods and Kunhar dominate — they are already in the top five and, in Muzamil’s reading, likely to be top three soon. The guest sitting across from him is Syed Zeeshan Haider, founder and CEO. The conversation that follows is the story of how a chemical-free side project in a Karachi kitchen became a national brand on shelves from Skardu to Quetta, and from there into Tesco, Asda and B&M in the UK.

NED, Unilever, LUMS, and a boss who said “go”

Zeeshan was born and raised in Karachi. School at Adamjee, engineering at NED — a school he describes with a half-smile as one that “teaches you street smartness, and an engineer too, as much as you can become one.” From there he joined Siemens, then Unilever. It was at Unilever, surrounded by business graduates with what he calls finesse he felt he lacked, that the idea of an MBA crystallised.

His Unilever boss pushed him hard. He filled out the LUMS form, sat the test, applied for financial aid because the fees were beyond what his family could absorb, and got it. “Now I had to go,” he says. “There was no reason to turn it down then.” He was twenty-four. Many of his LUMS batchmates were in their forties and fifties. The two years at LUMS, he says, were what refined him — not just academically, but the dorm-life relationships that, in his words, “become khaandani dosti, family-level friendships.”

After LUMS came K-Electric, then Philip Morris, where he was pulled in for the acquisition of Lakson Tobacco — the company behind the Morven Gold ad with the running horse that he remembers from childhood. Philip Morris moved him to Hong Kong, then the Philippines. He stayed abroad for years. “Bhai ki jo company hoti hai,” he says of Philip Morris, “woh logon mein bara invest karti hai.” They invested heavily in him. By his last role he was running three of their cigarette brands — Marlboro, Red & White and K2.

The shirt his daughter spilled on

Two things pulled him home, and then out of the corporate track entirely. His mother was unwell and he wanted to be with her — he had already turned down a Vietnam posting and a Lausanne one, and the cumulative no was starting to feel ethically off to him. The second reason was smaller and stranger. His daughter had been born. He worked in product development on cigarettes; he was around the product constantly. “I think there was one incident when she spilled my shirt and she didn’t like it. I think that was kind of a tipping point for me. I said I don’t want to do tobacco.”

He resigned. The night he handed in the letter, he slept. His wife did not. The company gave him a week to reconsider. He took the week and came back with the same answer. He had no concrete plan. What he had was three or four years of dollar-denominated savings from his overseas postings, and a willingness to spend a chunk of it on whatever came next.

Karachi Eat, wings, and the sauces that customers kept asking to buy

There was no master plan for sauces. The opening was Karachi Eat. The event was in its first or second year, in Frere Hall, and Zeeshan took a stall. His wife had been making barbecue and buffalo wing sauces in the Philippines for friends coming over. The wings became the product. They sold out, every day.

That success funded a small restaurant in Bukhari, then SAR, then Tipu Sultan, then Askari. The sauces were on the table, used in the wings, and increasingly being asked for on their own. “Bahut baar log aate the, bolte the wings na de, sirf sauce de de,” he tells Muzamil. That was the signal.

The original Dipstick research, as he calls it, was not an agency study. It was walking into retailers and asking them how many cartons of imported sauce they were bringing in per month, how many pallets per quarter, and then doing the maths on what total demand looked like nationally. He cross-checked his gut against those numbers. The rest — flavours, packaging, who to call first — was instinct.

Muzamil presses him on the obvious question: why kill the restaurants and double down on bottled sauce? Zeeshan still wishes he hadn’t. “Mein jissay milta hoon bolta hai, aap ne ek galat kaam kiya zindagi mein, aap ne Wingit band kar diya,” he says. He had a team of three. Twenty-four hours in a day. He had to choose one. He chose the bottle. He still wants to bring back frozen wings with proper flavours one day. He is the first to admit Wingit was ahead of its time — 2016 Pakistan did not yet know wings the way 2026 Pakistan does.

How a Karachi sauce got into Springs, Naheed and Al Fatah

The distribution story is, in Zeeshan’s telling, almost embarrassingly relational. A friend named Junaid had opened a store called Springs in Karachi. Zeeshan asked him to put a few bottles on the shelf. The deal he offered was simple: if it does not sell by Monday, I will take it back. It sold out. Barbecue Tonight was next — they agreed to put Dipitt ketchup bottles on every restaurant table, which doubled as free marketing. Then Naheed, then Al Fatah, then Jalal Sons.

For Lahore, where he didn’t know anyone, he called a LUMS dorm-mate from his Unilever-Philippines batch and asked him to become the distributor. The man had no distribution experience, but he had spent a career in sales. From Karachi, Dipitt’s stock travelled by train to Lahore, then to Faisalabad, then by Shahzore truck, then in full containers. The footprint grew the way the people around him grew.

When Muzamil presses on the cold calls, Zeeshan is honest. There were some. There was at least one very large retail chain — he won’t name them on camera — where he simply waited until they took the meeting. The pitch never changed. “Aap meri baat chhoren,” he would tell them. “Mein jo bhi keh raha hoon woh bakwaas hai, aap mera bas product try kar lein.” His own number, the one he keeps coming back to, is that 95% of the time, once the retailer tasted the sauce, they agreed to stock it. The other 5% asked him to come back in a fortnight.

Today, Dipitt is number one in sauces in Pakistan and top three or four across the broader condiments category. They sell roughly sixty-seven flavours, with around fifty in the Pakistani lineup. They cover thirty to forty towns directly, from Skardu in the north to Quetta in the south, with sub-distributors and wholesalers reaching the rest.

What KFC and McDonald’s actually bought

Muzamil’s first guess about the QSR partnerships is the obvious one — Dipitt ketchup on a McDonald’s table, the way Kunhar’s chilli garlic became inseparable from KFC’s brand memory for a whole generation. Zeeshan corrects him. The real business with KFC and McDonald’s is not the table bottle. It is innovation as a service.

Around 2018-2019, when Pakistan’s dollar crunch made it impossible to import speciality sauces on a normal schedule, KFC and McDonald’s had a problem. Their existing global suppliers needed six months to develop a new sauce, by which point the flavour trend had moved on. Dipitt’s pitch was speed. “Hamen koi chahiye jo jump up kar ke jaldi yeh kaam kar de,” Zeeshan recalls them telling him. Dipitt could turn around a new sauce in a fraction of the time, and they used the work itself as a learning loop — engaging with KFC’s global and regional teams, with McDonald’s, Subway, Papa John’s. “Yeh interaction pehle nahi hoti thi with the local manufacturers,” he says. Most local players were not in the room. Dipitt walked in.

The dollarised ingredient

Muzamil pushes hard on the price-point question. Pakistan is an agrarian economy. Thirty-five percent of GDP is agriculture. Surely a locally produced sauce should be structurally cheaper than an imported one travelling through Japan, Thailand, Dubai and into Karachi.

Zeeshan’s answer is more sobering than the question expects. “Mayonnaise ke liye oil Pakistan mein aaj ke din tak sab bahir se hi lete hain,” he says. The soya seed is imported from America; only the crushing is local. The plastic bottle on the shelf is made in Pakistan, but the dana — the resin — is imported. “Aap bolen haan mein locally le raha hoon, lekin woh local toh nahi hai, woh toh imported hai.” His point is that backend-traced, almost everything in a Pakistani-made sauce is dollar-packed.

The competitive edge then is not cost — it is two other things. The first is duty arbitrage when the playing field is level. The second, which is where he sounds genuinely proud, is the vertical-integration work Dipitt has done in the last two years. They have started working with progressive farmers in the Kunri-Umarkot belt — Asia’s largest red chilli growing region, next to Rajasthan — to grow cayenne, Tabasco and jalapeño peppers locally. It is still prototype scale. But the direction is set: stop importing the chilli, grow it here.

How COVID handed Dipitt the world

The export story has a structure most people would not predict. They started with consumer first, not B2B. They got onto shelves in retail before they got into kitchens. And then COVID happened.

“COVID really helped us. It’s a controversial statement, but COVID really helped us,” Zeeshan says. The Western producers of speciality sauces — almost all of them Europe- or North America-based — saw their own factories cut production from thirty days a month to fifteen. Whatever they made, they prioritised for their domestic shelves. Exports stopped. Shelves in the GCC, Asia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia started emptying out. Buyers in those markets started looking for anyone with quality and speed.

A LUMS alum who had become a head of buying at a large retailer reached out. They asked for a mixed container. Dipitt produced through COVID and shipped in fifteen days. A month later the same buyer placed an order for ten containers. Zeeshan remembers the two reactions in sequence: “Yeh toh das banayenge kaise — yeh pehle toh sawal aa gaya — phir iske paise nahi the.” Japan, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon all came through that window.

Today Dipitt is sold in thirty-three countries. In the UK, that means Tesco, Asda, Farm Fresh and B&M. The hardest market to crack, Zeeshan tells Muzamil, was not Germany. It was Japan. “The most strict market in terms of food certification is Japan,” he says. “Even more than the Germans.” Clearing Japan made everything else easier. His own claim is that Dipitt is now one of the most heavily certified food companies in Pakistan, and he credits the QSR partnerships for the discipline that built the certification function.

Bringing in three former bosses to keep him honest

Later in the discussion, Muzamil shifts to the institutional question — how do you take a founder-run company and corporatise it without losing its edge. Zeeshan’s answer is the most quietly counter-cultural thing he says in the conversation.

During COVID, he realised something about himself. “Yeh jo mein decision making kar raha hoon, may be is mein se shayad kuch sahi ho, kuch hindsight mein shayad sahi na ho. Insaan se ghalti ho jaati hai,” he says. “Meri accountability kisi ko bhi nahi thi. Mein kisi ko bhi jawab deh nahi tha.” He decided to fix that by forming a board. He could not afford to pay board remuneration. So he called three of his former bosses. They agreed. Since 2022 they have been the company’s guiding force — one of them, a former Unilever marketing head, is the first call he makes on any brand decision. Another is hardcore sales. The point of the structure, in his words, is twofold: real accountability, and a support system of three numbers he can dial when stuck.

He concedes the awkwardness. “Aap owner of the business toh hain, but aap ki cheezen bhi koi aur dictate kar raha hai.” He thinks more founders should do this anyway.

Where Pakistan’s real export opportunity actually lives

Muzamil’s longest argument in the episode is that Pakistan is sleeping on agri-processing. He gives the example his brother had recently raised with him — the country exports raw, unprocessed agricultural goods at low value and then imports the finished products back. Zeeshan agrees and frames the problem differently. “Aap ke jo manufacturers hain, they want easy win, no value addition, and no investing in R&D,” he says. The shortcut is to grind pink salt and ship it to Dubai for someone else to turn into a lamp. The harder, more lucrative path is to do the value-add in Pakistan. Almost nobody does.

His own example is mango. A Polish distributor told him Pakistani mangoes are exceptional, but when the distributor had approached the country’s largest mango exporter to ask about a paste or syrup product, he had been told to go home — nothing could be done. Zeeshan’s read is that this is exactly the kind of problem Dipitt could solve. A Chausa syrup or paste, exportable, shelf-stable, opens up mango lassi and mango shake demand across the world. He wants to do that work.

When Muzamil pushes him on why he doesn’t expand horizontally into wings, frozen foods, the obvious adjacent SKUs, Zeeshan’s answer is the one a more mature operator gives. “Ek hamari expertise hai, aur ek insaan har cheez nahi kar sakta.” He would rather help someone else build it. He mentions a chocolatier who came to him recently and asked for advice; Zeeshan asked him to come on a Saturday and run trials on Dipitt’s machinery. He has done the same with a cookie brand called Karamel — a partnership rather than an in-house extension. “Agar koi banda aur bhi achha kaam kar raha hai, toh zaroori hai har cheez maine hi karni hai?”

The snake who told him to give up

By the end of the conversation, Muzamil asks about the moments where someone tried to talk him out of the business. Zeeshan tells one. Early on, a contact sent him to meet a well-regarded sauce maker who was already doing well. Zeeshan describes him directly: “Ek saanp ne ek saanp ke paas bheja.” The meeting demoralised him for two or three days. He decided he was not going to do Dipitt at all. Then he turned it around. “Ab toh maine itna kaam kar liya, agar ab nahi karoonga toh pagal hoonga. Let’s just do it.”

The man who tried to demoralise him later copied the product. “It’s good. They learned something from us.” His advice to anyone listening is delivered without any drama. “Itna demotivate nahi hona chahiye, utne serious bhi nahi hona chahiye. Kabhi log zyada hi dil par le aate hain.” Sometimes you launch a product and it doesn’t work. So what.

Muzamil closes the conversation at the ninety-minute mark and tells Zeeshan, plainly, that this is one of his favourite episodes of the series. Zeeshan’s closing thought is in the same register as everything that came before it. “Aisa nahi hai ke sab kuch Pakistan mein ghalat hua. Kuch sahi bhi hua hoga, das percent hi sahi hua hoga, par sahi hua hai.” Then his example — TCF schools that did not exist when he was a child, and now graduate fifty thousand students a year. A LUMS National Outreach Programme student from a town past Chaman. A Pakistani student from Gilgit-Baltistan who went through LUMS and is now at Harvard. The pace, he admits, is slower than it should be. But the direction is forward. That, he tells Muzamil, is enough to keep building on.

Full transcript
Muzamil

सालों, ख़बीदीना अजरात. Welcome back to another episode of thought behind things. जैसा कि आपको पता है हमारी आज को series चल रही है with Endeavor Pakistan where we're looking or or hoping to find the 50 most exciting startups and businesses in Pakistan. जो आज की conversation है वह मेरे लिए personally बड़ी exciting है because मैं तकरीबन कोई चार पांच साल से इनसे बात करना चाह रहा था, समझना चाह रहा था. I didn't know this gentleman वह तो Endeavor की team ने हमें connect किया. But I know his brand very well and I've personally used it. I've मेरे लिए जो बहुत exciting बात थी वह यह थी कि एक पाकिस्तानी company एक बहुत diverse range के अंदर products बना रही है. उसके अंदर बेहतरीन branding के साथ, बेहतरीन quality के साथ. I didn't know कि यह Pakistan के अलावा बाहर भी कर रहे हैं और आज मुझे अभी off camera पता लगा है कि they're exporting to 32 different countries. So it's an incredible story of someone who did not have business background but वह उन्होंने जो है ना sort of risk लिया, trust किया. एक चीज़ जिसमें he was passionate about उसके ऊपर double down किया and has been able to scale it to incredible scales. अभी according to their data sauces के अंदर they're currently number one in Pakistan. Even अगर NET के ऊपर जाए तो बहुत सारे बड़े बड़े नाम exist करते हैं. National Foods है, कनौर है और बहुत सारे हैं. उसमें they're already in the top five and my understanding is कि they might just be in the top three very very soon. आज हमारे साथ मौजूद है सैयद ज़ीशान हैदर who is the founder and my understanding the CEO of Debit Sources. This episode of Thought Behind Things is presented in partnership with Endeavor Pakistan. Alright, thank you so much for taking the time out and joining us. Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. दिशान में before we get into dippet sauces, you know, what was the brand? How did you make it? मैं थोड़ा सा आपको समझना चाहूंगा. Tell me where were you born? Early life आपने कहां पर गुज़ारी? What were some of the themes growing up that made you the person that you are today?

Guest

Early life, I I was born and raised in कराची. So, my college was अदम जी मेरा college हुआ करता था एक गुरु मंदिर के पास and then I went and did my engineering from NED. So NED जो है वह खैर उस वक्त इतनी ज़्यादा पढ़ाई तो नहीं होती थी but it's a kind of a rough hit school. आपको सारा वह street smartness सिखा देते हैं और engineer भी थोड़ा बहुत बना देते हैं जितना आप बना सकते हैं वह या जितना आप बनना चाहे. So I, I did my engineering from there in electrical and then I moved on and started working for a company called Siemens. अब तो इतनी नहीं है Pakistan में but पहले बहुत हुआ करती थी हमारे ज़माने में and they used to be one of the biggest in terms of engineering की जो companies हुआ करती थी. So I started working with Siemens and then I left that. I joined in Unilever. Unilever जब मैंने join किया मुझे realize हुआ कि यार मैं ना थोड़ी मुझ में क्योंकि हम engineer थे और हम फिर वहां पर business graduates के साथ मिलते थे तो हमें लगता था कि यार हमें ना वह finesse नहीं है वह जो होनी चाहिए. वह जो leadership वाली भाई जाती है. वह वह नहीं है हम बहुत ही मतलब rough rough rough लोग हैं. So मेरे उस boss हुआ करते थे अलियता. उन्होंने मुझे बड़ा motivate किया कि यार तू कर सकता है, चला जा तो मैंने एक बार IB के admission form भरा. मैंने test दिया उसका. Normally इन चीज़ें से यह perception है कि मतलब perception तो नहीं है. Reality है क्या मुझे maths में अच्छे होते तो and then my mother and my brother said कि dorm में तो तुम कभी रहे नहीं हो तो तुम कैसे रहोगे? और थोड़ा सा you know आपने कभी उन्होंने भी इतना travel नहीं किया हुआ था. तो यह था कि I will go and do everything? So at that time I thought कि नहीं यार यह करना चाहिए and I took permission from my mother and then I opted for it. उसमें एक और issue आया कि वह lump जो थी वह थोड़ी हमारे budget से buyer थी. So I applied for the, the scholarship Yeah, the financial aid thing. So they gave me that also. So there was no reason to turn it down then. So वैमरनी अब तो जाना पड़ जाए. अब तो जो वह भी मस्लाल हो गया तो अब तो कोई चक्कर है या नहीं. So I left my, my job at Unilever and I opted for lumps. I don't know why I did that, what made me do that but I think there was kind of a feeling कि यार this is the right thing to do और दूसरी feeling यह भी थी कि यार अभी नहीं किया तो maybe I will get too much content with जो हो रहा होगा और शायद फिर मैं बाद में ना करूं. So then I. How were you at this time? I think I was 24. I think I was 24 इतने ही होंगे I think. अच्छा. 24, 20 Not that old. Yeah not that old. So I have so मुझे अच्छा उस वक्त यह भी था कि कुछ दोस्त मेरे IV में पढ़ रहे थे, कुछ नौकरी कर रहे थे. तो you know आप नौकरी कर रहे होते अच्छे खासे पैसे आ रहे होते हैं तो आप बोलते हैं मतलब यह कौन छोड़ेगा? All of that kind of thing. तो खैर फिर मेरे पास नहीं अभी तो इतनी ज़रूरत भी नहीं है तो it's ok let's take a risk. So I left that and I joined lumps. Lumps में I made some very good friends of you know that was good time.

Muzamil

Was good How was the experience? Mean you were an engineer non business background. आपके लिए वैसे तो आप जिन companies में काम कर रहे थे those are like global conglomerates and so obviously that experience must have been quite something as well. But for an engineer to go into MBA at a very young age because लामज़ में बहुत senior लोग भी आ रहे होते हैं. शायद वह executive वाले में ज़्यादा आ रहे होते हैं but still वह आ रहे होते हैं. नहीं नहीं हमारे India में seniors बहुत थे वह कुछ ऐसे थे जो मतलब

Guest

काफी senior थी मतलब चालीस पचास साल वाली age वाले भी लोग थे उस batch में. So मुझे I think maybe if I was not the youngest I was one of the few of the youngest ones. I think दो तीन That must be quite limiting right? Like एक experience का difference है, एक overall exposure का difference है उसके अंदर आप पहुंच तो गए हैं और अब आप एक engineer हैं और business को समझ रहे तो how was that maneuvering through all of that? Yeah, so it's a I think वह it was adjusting but I think जो उधर friends का circle बनाना that was very good. So वह ज़िंदगी भर यह actually lumps की बहुत अच्छी बात है. I think bachelors या MBA जो भी program है उनका उसमें जो dorm में रहते ना वह फिर ज़िंदगी भर की एक खानदानी दोस्ती हो जाती है. दोस्ती भी नहीं होती वह खानदानी दोस्ती होती है. But it was quite a good time there and then जब वह खत्म हुआ तो सबको उस ज़माने में बड़ी अच्छी अच्छी foreign foreign नौकरियां लग जाती थी लामज़ारों की. तो वह तो हम जब फ़ारिक हुए तो अगले दिन मतलब उसी वक्त हमें पता था हमने कहां जाना है. तो अगले हफ्ते हमारी बड़ी अच्छी अच्छे pace के ऊपर अच्छी जगह नौकरी भी लग गई तो हम वहां भी चले गए. So they were fantastic two years in terms of experience, in terms of education, in terms of you know living your time with unfiltered kind of a way कि कोई there was no parent nothing unmonitored आप रह रहे so और you know lumps का वह अपना environment ही ज़बरदस्त होता है जिधर आप रह रहे होते हो so it was it was good experience had fun but that all that fun also you know refined me as a individual in itself. जो finesse की जो जो मेरी you know search थी I think वह उधर हुई उसको help मिली and then I think from there I started working with the with the with the with K Electric and then K Electric के बाद I started working with the company called Philip Morris. Philip Morris ने उस ज़माने में recently एक company होती थी Lexington, Lexington tobacco. Lexington tobacco हुआ करती थी जो मौवन gold का एक घोड़े वाला ad आता था बचपन में वह हुआ करती थी. So उसे acquire किया था Pakistan में उस वक्त. So, उनको private equity की acquisition वाली team जागी थी. So, they took me in because मैंने K electric की acquisition में था. So, वह वहां चला गया and then वहां पर भी बहुत अच्छे boss दोस्ती हो गई, बड़ा अच्छा उसने सिखाया. फिर then they move me to Hong Kong and then Philippines and all of those places. फिर मैं बाहर ही रहा काफी साल and then I was groomed by them. They, भाई की जो company होती है वह लोगों में बड़ा invest करती है. तो उन्होंने मुझे बड़ा पढ़ाया, लिखाया, सिखाया from scratch I think. So, so this was a good time. I think I had, I am very lucky. I always say to people that you know I am very fortunate once. जिसको boss भी अच्छे मिले, दोस्त भी अच्छे बने, नौकरी भी अच्छी जगह हो गई. I don't know कैसे सब होता क्या but everything was good. मेरे साथ ऐसा कोई issue हुआ नहीं और मैं अभी भी अपनी team को यह बोलता हूं कि तुम लोग कभी कोई इसमें देखो गलत क्या है? इसमें मसला क्या है? हां. You know अगर आपको अच्छा बंदा भी मिल जाता है जो available होता आप बोलते नहीं इसमें यह available क्यों है? फ़ारक क्यों है? Guilty है until proven innocent है ना. हां यह उल्टा वाला काम है. तो मैं यही कहता हूं कि नहीं है मतलब you need to start trusting people and then let them prove otherwise if if that's the case. Makes sense. Makes sense. So 2015 was when you left Philip Morris. What was your last role? My last role was I was looking at brands. I think मेरे पास was red and white था, Malbro था और एक और था. Sorry, K2, K2 brand था. तो हमारे तीन cigarette के brands थे वह मेरे पास थे. I was looking at the the the brand side. That was my last. And you were in Pakistan? Back in Pakistan at the time? I came back to Pakistan at that time. Yes. मेरे ख्याल से. Was that a conscious decision on your end or was the company did the company send you back? No, I wanted to come back because of my mother was not well and I wanted to move back also. So there were two three things which were happening and then उसके बाद I had another assignment which I was offered to take in Europe but I had to come back for for a personal reason to come back to Pakistan.

Muzamil

And and so you again Europe की आपकी assignment भी है. Philip Morris, British American tobacco इस तरह की companies जो है ना यह career companies होती हैं. वहां आप लगाएं उसके अंदर वह और आप clearly leadership poised for leadership role seemingly हो रहे थे. One would assume कि at that age जो आपकी उस time पर थी, जिस position पर आप already थे, जिस path पर आप थे, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to leave leave your your career at that time. What made you think कि यार बस हो गया है. You know, let's do something of my own.

Guest

Basically, there were two reason. एक तो my mother was not well and I wanted to you know stay with her. So I didn't wanted to take the role outside. तो वह एक मेरा था challenge कि मैं उनको ना दो बार मला कर चुका था कि नहीं एक बार एक role आया था which was for वेतनाम. So I declined that. I said I don't want to go there because मैं अभी नहीं जाना. फिर दूसरा आया जो I think Luzaan का था. तो I said मैंने उधर भी नहीं जाना. तो मुझे लग रहा था कि यार यह मैं हर चीज़ को don't know मना कर रहा हूं वह एक सही, I think मुझे अपने लिए ethically एक सही नहीं लग रहा था. दूसरा my at that point of time we my daughter was born and and I felt that she didn't and I was in product development and brand and marketing तो मेरा cigarette से बहुत एक close interaction था. जब मैं commercialization में था तो हमें तो cigarette ही पीनी पड़ती थी और you know हमारा बहुत एक था. So at that time I don't know मतलब मेरे कोई ऐसा ethical issues नहीं थे cigarette के साथ but मुझे उस वक़्त I think बेटी की बात I didn't know I think there was one incident when she spelled my shirt and she didn't like it I think that was kind of a tipping of point for me and I said I don't want to do tobacco. दो अगर कोई मेरा दोस्त यह सुनेगा मुझसे तो वह बोलेगा नहीं इसको ऐसे ethical issues होते नहीं है But मुझे बस I don't know. So there was some reason I didn't wanted to do it anymore and I said I I said to to was a smoker for the longest time when my son was born तो बेगम ने मुझे पहले बोलना शुकू देता आपने cigarette छोड़नी है you know यह है बच्चा. Transfer ना करूं somehow. I think एक एक may be in my mind शायद वह thought हो. पता नहीं I think उस मेरा decision जो होता ना बहुत ही spontaneous था. Let me try something out in my life which I want to do. अगर काम कर गया सही है अगर नहीं किया तो छह महीने बाद I will find something you know I was I wasn't worried about but I was confident कि नहीं मेरा काम सही है तो मतलब कुछ ना कुछ तो हो जाएगा इतने बुरे हालात या इतने बुरे दिन नहीं आए या कोई नौकरी ना आ रहा So I think उस ज़माने में मतलब मिल जाएगा कर्जीत इतना मुश्किल हुआ नहीं करता था. दो हज़ार पंद्रह सोलह में things were pretty fine. Pretty

Muzamil

fine. Were you, did you have like a plan of what you wanted to do after this? And I mean in terms of risk appetite, you know, were you like were you upper, middle, comfortable कि यार ठीक है, family sustain कर लेगी? Because a lot of people, my understanding is you guys are, you know, you're a family of people who who who do corporate work and so job is an inherent part. अब आपकी शादी भी हुई है, बच्चा भी है. दस सवाल आते हैं दिमाग में कि यार. I agree.

Guest

So basically ना मैं तीन चार साल से बाहर था. जब मैं बाहर था तो मुझे dollar में तनख्वाह मिलती थी. So वह वाला aspect जो था ना मुझे पता था कि यार कोई वह जो मुझे चीज़ खोलनी है वह मैं वह खोल लूंगा तो वह भी cover हो गया उसकी investment वह भी cover हो गई so I will take the the risk with it. Leap of faith. अच्छा my wife she comes from a business family और उसके वाले सात कब तक business है So, उसने कभी यह risk इतने ऐसे देखे नहीं है या लिए नहीं है. So, जिस रात मैंने resign करना था ना जिस दिन उस रात को मैं तो सो रहा था वह नहीं सोई थी कि यह तो पता नहीं क्या होने वाला है? हमारा घर कैसे चलेगा? He took my rejection and he just kept it and said जाकर एक हफ्ते की छुट्टी लो सोचो बाद में बताना. तो मैं बोला छुट्टी दे दो कोई बात नहीं मैं कुछ कर लूंगा but I don't want to do this anymore. Am very sure about it. Made up my mind and at that point of time कराची eat एक event शुरू शुरू हुआ था. I think पहला साल था या दूसरा साल था frayer hall में एक छोटा सा event हुआ करता था और वह होने वाला था. So stall तो दे दें आप. अच्छा. कुछ ना कुछ तो कर लेंगे. So I will do some food. I mean you

Muzamil

you knew कि you wanted to get into food but you didn't even have an idea about what and why and how?

Guest

थोड़ा बहुत idea था because my wife used to make these sauces which were very nice तो जब हम Philippines में थे तो हम बहुत बार में दोस्त आते थे तो हम उसी को बोलते थे कि भाई buffalo wings बना दो, barbecue wings बना दो वह बनाया करती थी घर पर और हम खाते थे तो वह वाला एक area था. Idea was दो तीन उस वक़्त मेरे ज़हर में जा रहे थे. I wanted to do fries with various sauces. भाई बहुत popular था. Pakistan में नहीं था एक OPTP करता था but that's you know on different. I want to do like ten twenty sources in which people can pick and choose. So that was one thing in my mind. The wings was the second thing in mind. और मैं क्योंकि I I I studied business across my life and and did that part of commercialization across my career. So I thought कि यार अगर मेरे से कोई भी चीज़ काम करती है ना उसको हम commercialize कर लेंगे, scale up कर लेंगे, वह हो जाएगा. The idea was कि frozen wings कर लेंगे अगर wings चल गया तो, So, so that was thing. So, we did that कराची eat event and then we did this with the wings. They got hit, got a very good response. हम sold out हो जाते थे हर दिन और लोग बोलते थे जी यह कहां मिलेगा? हम बोलते थे नहीं अभी तो हमारी कोई दुकान नहीं है. तो then we opened up a small restaurant at बुखारी and then from there one more at सैर, one more at टीपू सुल्तान, one more at असकरी. So वह दो साल की journey होती गई and then we started selling the sauces at the restaurant itself. तो बहुत बार लोग आते थे, बोलते थे wings ना दे सिर्फ sauce दे दे. So then we realize कि यार मतलब इसको सही तरीके से करना चाहिए और I think but उसमें बहुत सारे challenges आए फिर उनको one by one करते गए तो I think that's where the journey started and that's where everybody got a hope कि नहीं यह काम हो सकता है. एक और aspect है कि जब भी आप market जाते थे तो मैं देखता था बहुत सारी imported sources आती हैं. So that was easier. So I realize कि यार यह अगर इतनी चीज़ें आ रही हैं तो यह कोई खा रहा है तभी तो आ रही हैं. तो अगर कोई खा रहा तो कोई बना क्यों नहीं रहा and then I realize I think it was R and D that was missing the the big manufacturers were not willing to invest in in terms of R and D and in terms of the raw material जो उसके लिए चाहिए because they thought that it's a very smaller market. I think what they missed out was that they didn't saw the trend where the world is moving. यह यह एक हमसे हो जाता है when we live here और हम अपने इस view या इस vision के साथ रहते हैं कि नहीं जो हम कह रहे हैं वही सही है या जब हो रहा है वह चलने दें. तो I think फिर then you miss out the trends where the world is shifting and I think that's we realize कि यार नहीं यह तो buyer यह हो रहा है तो यहां पर भी होगा आज नहीं होगा तो कल होगा. कल नहीं होगा तो परसों होगा. So I think that that's what we picked up.

Muzamil

Interesting. मुझे यह बताएं कि पहला तो before getting into this, obviously, you had the MBA experience and the corporate experience. How much of this was preplanned in terms of, what is ना? आप एक पूरा analysis करते हैं market का, जिसने आपने यह बात बोली कि आज in hindsight यह बात बड़ी logical है कि आप इस्लामाबाद की ईसाजीज़ में जो पड़ा हुआ था that was not a representative of 250,000,000 पाकिस्तानीs. But the idea that इस्लामाबादी जो कि taste bud वही था वह ketchup and mayonnaise वाला. उसने imported माल को consume करके अपने आप को अपना palate diversify किया और sauces के अंदर integrate किया. तो what is to say कि जो remainder of Pakistan है वह नहीं diversify करेगा, right? So it's a very logical conclusion कि जो sauce शायद आज मैं अगर Tabasco लेता हूं and I know that you guys have like a sort of a Tabasco style hot sauce as well. मैं अगर आज Tabasco लेता हूं, शायद I would stick to Tabasco. शायद I can afford Tabasco as well. But when you compare the price of Tabasco versus, let's say, what you guys were able to eventually put out, that's the middle class product. That's the scale, and that's, like, tens of thousands of जो demand के आप बात कर रहे वह demand आपको बड़ी clear ही नज़र आती है. All you really have to do is create the right supply chain and localize supply chain and reduce the prices. उस time के ऊपर did you have an understanding of what you were getting into या were you basically AB testing and and and seeing what works and then doubling down on that?

Guest

So it it was mix of both. So obviously there was a little bit of research but obviously not an agency kind of a research. It was a dipstick you know. I used to go to retailers and ask them कि यार ये आपके आप मंगवाते हैं कितनी carton मंगवाते हैं? तो मुझे एक retailer ने बताया कि जी ये दे मैं एक pallet मंगवाता हूँ उसमें डेढ़ सौ carton आते. मैं लाहौर, इस्लाबाद, फ़ैसलाबाद में कितनी है and then I got that data and then I you know did some maths to it and and and try to come up with a number कि यार क्या है, क्या नहीं है. So इस तरह के छोटे छोटे maths के but then yes there was lot of decision making that I was doing just based on my gut because मेरे पास कुछ भी नहीं था. So in terms of flavors, in terms of packaging क्या होगी? क्या नहीं होगी? किस तरह करना है? क्या नहीं करना? किससे बात करनी है? किससे नहीं करनी? So there was again lot of gut involved in that. So, it was a mix of both the gut feeling and doing some numbers a little bit to just make sure and validate my thought.

Muzamil

Interesting and so just to in terms of understanding the financials, the job gave you the space to start the restaurant and my understanding is the restaurant gave you the numbers to or the or the capital to start the sauce business. Yeah yeah, that's how it worked out. Why didn't you expand on the the restaurant? So, मैं अगर देखूंगा again simple mind would just say कि यार यह existing चीज़ है इसको scale up कैसे किया जा सकता है? And probably I would argue that there was not a lot of scale in that compared to what you were eventually able to create. Yeah. What compelled you to say कि ok, we have a restaurant business. We're directly reaching out to the consumers. But let's ramp down on that and let's double down on the sauces, which is an entirely different business altogether. Like, it's you you you have a factory, you're producing, then you're sending it to retailers. And then वह comparatively nature उसकी फ़र्क़ है versus उसी वक़्त बनाया, बेचा, पैसे लिए और you know daily के हिसाब से you have very good understanding of how the business is going.

Guest

यह इस अगर तुम मुझसे आज भी पूछोगे तो I I still wanna do wing it and I really want to do it. मैं जिससे मिलता हूँ बोलता आपने एक गलत काम किया ज़िंदगी में आपने winged बंद कर दिया. मैं बोलता हाँ जी बंद कर दिया है. और original baby जो है वो winged ही है. हाँ so I still want to do it. It was just a I had to pick a priority कि कौन सा पहले करना है क्योंकि दिन में वही चौबीस घंटे थे जो मैं दे सकता था. Then I was a single person running from end to end and you know managing the end to end thing. उस वक्त कुछ बड़ी team नहीं थी. I think तीन बंदे थे हम. एक finance का था, एक sale देखता था, एक मैं था and my wife used to come in and pitch in and support in on whatever she can with the kids in house and everything going on the on the side. So, यह छोटी सी team थी. So I decided कि यार इस इस छोटी की team के साथ and with with two things running in parallel I think वह focus नहीं आ सकता. अगर एक चीज़ सही कर लें फिर दूसरी चीज़ को बाद में सही कर लेंगे the very next day. So I think the focus shifted on this and now in the passage of time I think there would be someday eventually where you would like to do it again.

Muzamil

Do you think there were challenges or failures during this part? Yes, failures उस वक्त यह थे कि for example

Guest

मैं एक बल्कि incident बताता हूँ हमने लौहौर कराची eat होता था और इस्तामबाद eat होता था और लौहौर eat होता था. So कराची eat में हम ना sold out हो जाते थे. इस्लामाबाद eat में भी हम sold out हो जाते थे. लौर eat में बंदा कोई नहीं आता था and the problem we figured out was कि लौर में बोलते थे कि यार यह चार wings जो है ना यह कौन खाएगा? इसके मतलब you know quantity matters there you know और wings वैसे ही छोटा होता है. पाक्षाणी wings वैसे ही छोटा है size में you know क्योंकि वह छोटी मुर्गी का wings होता है. Whereas if you compare with The US का wing it would be double the size almost. Yeah yeah. So वहां पर वह लोग quantity मांग देते हैं. So वह हम जभी भी मैं लोहोरीट करता था एक बंदा नहीं आता था सारा दिन हम मक्खी मारते रहते थे. You know and we realize कि यार यह चीज़ ना इधर नहीं चलने वाली. यह कराची और स्लामाद वालों को समझ आ जाएगा but इधर नहीं समझ आएगा. इधर के लिए कुछ और करना पड़ेगा. So he started doing fried chicken at low rate and then put the flavor on the fried chicken. You know so लोगों को वह KFC का एक two point o version मिल जाए. So, so he started doing that. So एक वह एक हमें challenge face हुआ था winger में. I think winger was way ahead of its time. दो हज़ार सोलह में इतने लोग wings को नहीं जानते थे अगर दो हज़ार छब्बीस में अगर हम wings करेंगे तो they would be a totally different kind of a number which will come out जिनको wings की awareness होगी versus दो हज़ार सोलह में. I think we were a little bit ahead of time in terms of wing it. So थोड़ा सा उसमें उसका scaling up में वह challenge आ रहा था. दूसरा जो challenge आ रहा था वह आ रहा था कि हमने जब wing it खोला then it was success in कराची. एक यह problem है हमारे साथ I don't know क्यों है? कि जब एक चीज़ आपकी चलने लग जाती है तो पांच लोग same चीज़ copy paste कर लेते हैं. So पांचों नहीं चल पाते. तो मतलब आप भी नहीं चल पाते वह भी नहीं चल पाते. So एक वक्त में एक बल्कि दो तीन महीने में तीन winget और खुल गए थे. मतलब wing on, wing stop, wing फलाना, wing मिल गई, whatever. So वो भी खुल गए थे. Yeah yeah. So I think वो एक challenge आ रहा था तो differentiation करना. अच्छा वो हमसे sauce हम ही से ले रहे थे. यह भी बड़ी मज़ेदार बात है क्योंकि वो डिपिट से sauce ले रहे थे. अब so अब how can you tell them not to buy, buy डिपिट because डिपिट is going to wholesale also. So they can buy it not directly from you but they can buy it from the market. So you, so you can stop them. So there was these kind of challenges जो थे which I think part and parcel होते हैं. हर business में कुछ ना कुछ तो आ रहा होता है. So, so यह थे but it was. Do you think you will come back to the wing business at some point? I really wanted to do I really still want to do frozen wings in various flavors. आज भी अगर आप पाक्सानी market जाएंगे तो आपको frozen wings में शायद एक ही कोई spicy flavor मिल जाएगा that's it and I really debate कि यार is there no barbecue wing or a सिराचा wing or any kind of wings because it's a very quick food you know you just fry it and put the sauce on it and give it to anybody. If you don't have a chef at home or something or you come out, come back from a wedding or something and भूख लग रही है तो आप बना लें, खा लें and chest protein, chicken ही कारे आप with a little bit of oil that's about it. So I think वह होना चाहिए I think and I think socially food awareness बहुत बढ़ गई है. During COVID and after COVID, before and after COVID food awareness has changed three sixty degree I would say क्योंकि covid से पहले लोग इतना food के बारे में aware या interested नहीं थे versus जो after covid हुए because everybody tried, made food at home for two years themselves. So that has changed quite a bit. Think so maybe maybe there is a lot of potential there. Somebody should do it. If not विवेंकित maybe then केरन और सब्रोम सो और somebody else should do it. I think somebody should invest in R and D and take this leap of faith कि यार हमारी कौम को भी flavors मिल सकें. Makes sense. मुझे यह बताएं कि between

Muzamil

the you know once the dippet journey really started and and and you were focused full time on that, How did the scale sort of happen? Right? So अभी तक बड़ी natural हमें organic नज़र आ रहा है कि आपने एक एक एक event पर wings बनाकर बेचे, लोगों को पसंद आया, आपको समझ आ गया. आपने कहा यार चलो restaurant खोल लेते हैं. Restaurant खोला तो आपको हुआ कि यार अब एक खोल लिया, दो भी खोल सकते हैं, तीन भी खोल सकते हैं. उसके अंदर sauces बनाना is easy. Sauces को पूरे मुल्क में पहुंचाना is an entirely different ball game altogether. Right? उसमें yes, you have you had the experience, but you had the experience of hardcore corporate with incredible infrastructure where if you decide something, things happen and there is a lot of muscle at the background that can enable you to make it happen. यहां पर and my understanding is you did not take a lot of, if any, investment during this journey. Like, you basically bootstrapped your way into कि भाई जो भी मुझे excess आ रहा है वह मैं reinvest करके मैं scale बढ़ाता हूं. And so tell me about that scale. How were you able to distribute yourself? किस point तक वह scale पहुंचा है? And before we go to the international side, even local Pakistan में how widely is the source available or the sauces available today? How many cities are they going to? And what does the distribution network look like? And then similarly, जो production side है, you know, kitchens and restaurants versus a factory, how did that sort of evolution happen?

Guest

No. Your question is very spot on. So, basically, what happened was I still remember one of my friend, his name is जुनेद. He opened up a store called springs in कराची. At that time, वह छोटा सा store था उसने उस वक्त खोला था and I asked him कि यार यह भाई मैं मुझे कुछ sauces बेचनी है. So I went with his permission and सारी चीज़ें और वहां पर हमने वह बोतलों से दे दी उन्होंने रख ली और I think वह idea यह था मेरा thought process यह चल रहा था कि मैं बोला यह नहीं बिकेंगी तो Monday को मैं इसे वापस ले लूंगा, you know, अगर weekend पर नहीं बिकी. खैर वह it turned out that they sold out. So, फिर एक वह you know optimistic हो गया है कि उसको बना उसके लिए बनाने लगे. इसी तरह एक दो और लोग थे उनसे help मांगी. अब barbecue night really help me out. So मैंने उनसे जाकर request की तो उन्होंने बोला हां हम आपकी बोतले, आपकी ketchup हम tableओं पर रख लेते हैं. तो वह kind of a free marketing हो गई. So they helped us out. इसी तरह दो तीन और retailer stores से नाहिद store एक कराची में they helped us out. So, so उन्होंने भी रख ली और वह वहां से you know बिकने लग गई तो वह काम शुरू हो गया. लोहौर में हमें कोई नहीं मिल रहा था so one of my dorm mate and roommate and old friend from lumps. तो मैं बोला भाई लोहौर में हमारे कोई distributor नहीं है तू distributor वन जाए मारा. So he became the distributor. So did he have distribution experience before that? No, he was working with in Philippines also at that time. He was, know, Philippines ने हमारे सात आठ लड़के लिए थे वह lumps के, batch मेरे से सारे. तो एक ASM फलाना था. वह RSM I think central लौहौर मतलब central region का था. तो लौहौर, साईवाल and that all of that area आता था उसके पास. So खैर उसने उस ज़माने में ना वह नौकरी छोड़कर he started something else. So he said हां मेरे पास थोड़ा सा time है and I can do that और obviously sales कर रहा था तो sales का experience था. So हमने एक बंदा रखा उसने अपने पास हुआ और उसने वो distribution start कर दी या क्योंकि हमारे पास इतना truck load तो होता नहीं था तो हम उसे Kent station पर माल रखवाते थे या कराची में वो बड़ा हो गया. So लोहौर में इस तरह distribution शुरू की. इसी तरह हमने इस्तामाद में then he expanded from लोहौर to इस्तामाद himself. So you know, chlorine gradually हर बंदा grow हो रहा था with the brand. वह लोहौर से स्थापात करने लग गया, फिर वह फ़ैसला बात करने लग गया. हम या कराची से उससे देने लग गए. पहले train में जाता था फिर Shazor में जाने लग फिर container में जाने लग गया. So इस तरह वह होता गया. एक journey चलती गई and lot of people during that I would say एक negative हमारे अंदर you know we pick up negative side first but I think lot of पाक्सानी people helped us. I gave you some examples like one of my friend जुनेद, बाबी चुनाई, अलफतेह वाले I remember I went and met them and जलाल सेना I met them जैसे हाँ बेटे आप की रख लेते कोई मसला नहीं. So all of these people helped us. हम ऐसी बुराइयां करते रहते लोगों की but जो तारीफ़ नहीं करते but

Muzamil

हो सकता सारी चलो यह बड़ा clear. कुछ तो बड़ा clear समझ आ गया ना relationships आपने curate की हुई थी. कुछ दोस्तों के साथ, कुछ अपने corporate के time के साथ. जो a lot of these sort of retailers थे. The what did you know these people? Did you go through reference? Or did you cold call a lot of these people कि भाई, you know, we are this. We make these products. Can we stuck with you? Barbecue tonight हो गया, अब और सुनाई हो गया. अच्छा कुछ तो दोस्तों के reference या जाने वालों के reference लगे कुछ बहुत ही cold call थी.

Guest

I don't know name लेना चाहिए या नहीं लेना चाहिए. मुझे एक बहुत बड़ा store है और बड़े chain of stores है. So wait तो कराया but या cold call But it's a matter of persistence,

Muzamil

right? हां, बस बैठे रहे हैं. The thing for me here is, the thing for me here is that the idea that you were not ready to take a no an answer. You didn't say कि यार ढाई घंटे, मुझे ढाई घंटे, मैं तो लम्ब का graduate. मैंने इतनी बड़ी corporate में काम किया भाई. You were like किया मैंने product बेचनी है. I don't know this gentleman but let me go and I I have confidence in my product. I'll show it to him and, you know, he'll do it. Yeah मतलब

Guest

मैं बहुत ज़बार यह करता था कि मैं अगर खिसके पास जाता था ना और मुझे लगता था कि मतलब सारे retailers martial life हो सकता था बड़े ही थे हमसे और सारे अच्छे लोग थे. तो मैं उनको बोलता था कि आप मेरी बात छोड़ें. मैं जो भी कह रहा हूं वह बकवास से छोड़ें. आपने मेरा बस product try कर ले and trust me जब वह product try करते थे तो हम बोलते थे अच्छा बेटा तुम छिछे बोलते सबकी दे दो. कोई बात नहीं. हम रख लेंगे. बिकी तो हम तुम्हें पैसे दे देंगे. नहीं बिकेगी तो तुम माल whatever. नहीं बिकी तो तुम्हारा वरना बिक जाएगी तो पैसे ले लेना. And I think 95% times everybody when they tried the product they said ok we will keep it. I think 5% होगा जिसने बोला होगा अगली बार आ जाओ या एक हफ्ते बाद आ जाओ या दो हफ्ते बाद आ जाओ या हमारे पास जगह नहीं है but 90% plus they said कि we will keep it and they were ok with it and yes फिर वह you know एक बार आप जाते हैं चार बोतल लेकर तो फिर वह बढ़ता जाता है, बढ़ता जाता and slowly gradually and then we will continue. हां PQ brand का भी overall आपका globally nationally एक establish हो रहा था तो. Yeah.

Muzamil

Movement पूछना है but what's the scale now? अगर मैं आपसे पूछूं nationally?

Guest

Nationally I think in terms of sauces we would be number one. In terms of other categories we would be number three, four, in in some categories number two. And how many sauces are there for पाकिस्तानी market? पाकिस्तानी there are about 50 something in overall we make about 67 flavors.

Muzamil

Crazy and how many cities are you going to right now? जहां पर actively आपका माल पड़ा होता है? So we cover from कोएटा till

Guest

कर्दू is the last town that we we we cover from that side and on this side कोएटा is the last town I think about thirty, forty towns तो हम cover करते होंगे. बाकी जो है वह sub distributors या down the line जो wholesalers हैं वो service करते होंगे but we cover quite a stretch. So अगर आप जाएंगे बहुत सारे hotels इस कर्दू में they use depit there as has also on in कोएटा and चमन even

Muzamil

they use it there. मतलब कि मुल्तान, फैसलाबाद, झानकोट. मैं अगर बड़े किसी retailer के पास जाऊं तो मुझे मिलता है यह sauce. हां हां, वह तो समझा भी आ Interesting and जो यह आपकी यह वाली partnerships हैं. Obviously hotels रख रहे हैं, restaurants रख रहे हैं. There there is a उससे two things हो रही ना. अगर मैं कनौर की बात करूं for example, कनौर, chili, garlic in my opinion, I think what really worked for them was the partnership that they curated with McDonald's and KFC. And, you know, if you had, अगर पाकिस्तानियों की उस generation की एक association थी because KFC and McDonald's were launching in the start. And so you growing up, that food was magical because of the experience that you were having. And that association with किनोर's chilly garlic for example or वह played a very important role in selling that product in the in the grand scheme of things. उस तरीके से definitely जो restaurants हैं या यह जो आपके partners हैं, they they they they there's a bigger purpose than just selling that product. So I'm curious कि generally when partnerships कैसे हुई? And दूसरा, in these cases, are you providing them the product just as any other client? Are you subsidizing it? Are you giving it for free? What do these partnerships look like? Because, obviously, there's a bigger purpose that is being achieved here in terms of brand equity, in terms of connectivity with the customers.

Guest

So basically we we developed a different model and I think it's important to say KFC and McDonald's also helped us a lot in this journey also. I I would like to name them also because हमने innovation बहुत इकट्ठे करी क्योंकि I think दो हज़ार अट्ठारह आया था या उन्नीस था I, I, I don't remember exactly but there was a point in time where there was a ban on importing products from outside. जब Pakistan के बाद dollar खत्म हो गए थे या यह beach में एक एक व्यात्य सस्ता एक था वह period. So बहुत सारी चीज़ें यह लोग buyer से दिया करते थे तो वह dollar नहीं जा रहे पा रहे थे, transact नहीं हो पा रहा था तो वह shortage हो रही थी. So we really worked with them day and night and we made these new sauces and new flavors with them and we still provide to both these chains and lot of other chains also. Subway है, Mcdonald's है, KFC है, Papa John's है and all of these chains. So, so we did that and I think इसमें एक चीज़ और देखी कि lot of times जो मुझे issue लगा था which we try to solve out was the innovation was taking lot of time with the existing players in the market. अगर आप क्योंकि जब मैं इनसे मिलता था और इनसे पूछता था कि भईया आपका pain point क्या है? तो उनका pain point यह होता था कि जी अगर हमने कोई नई बनानी है ना तो हम A को contact करते हैं. A बोलता छह महीने में बनेगी और छह महीने में वह trend use होकर फ़र्क हो जाता है और जब तक वह source बनकर आती है तब तक वह trend खत्म हो चुका होता है. So we need somebody who can you know jump up and do it quickly and do the right thing quickly. I think so वह that was dipit forte innovation and you know food trending and and doing what's is required at that point of time. So we side doing that for these player and these people were able to get those products and launch those things out there in the market. अच्छा interesting. So basically

Muzamil

मैं तो उस उस reference से सोच रहा था कि यार एक restaurant है उसके table के ऊपर या you know डिपित की ketchup पड़ी हुई है for example but now I'm thinking कि the

Guest

sauces that you were giving were basically not directly reaching out to their customers. वह वह थी कि अगर कोई recipe वन रही है उसके अंदर जो sauce use हो रही है वह आप लोग provide कर रहे हैं. जी, वह भी थी और obviously restaurants को जैसे ketchup है या Tabasco है जो उन्होंने table पर रखती है वह भी थी. Sanchez भी थे वह भी थे. So that was one part of the business but we were doing lot of innovative work on the side also which was kind of interesting and learning and was helping up us improve our self also because we were engaging with KFC global team, regional team, Mcdonald's की team so we were also improving our self day to day in terms of engagement जब उनसे हो रही थी तो हम कुछ सीख ही रहे थे और जो हमारे पास knowledge बेच थी वह हम share कर रहे थे. यह, यह interaction पहले नहीं होती थी with the local manufacturers. दिपित को देखकर अब शायद कुछ करने लगे but पहले यह इतनी interaction between the global and the regional players से नहीं करती थी companies Pakistan में और वह seek out नहीं करते थे कि भई क्या हो रहा है, क्या नहीं हो रहा है, क्या आपको चाहिए? Dubai में KFC क्या launch कर रहा है? Pakistan में क्या कर सकते हैं हम यह या नहीं? You know maybe we can so let's do it. So that kind of a things we brought up on the table.

Muzamil

Makes sense. जो यह import versus local manufacturing का वह है, technically बड़ा no brainer है. अगर मैं वैसे सोचूं कि यार, I mean कोई हम silicon chips नहीं बना रहे कि बहुत ही कोई हो जाएगी. Food है. We're an agrarian economy. X amount of चीज़ों को mix किया और अब उसमें निकाल दिया. And we're seeing certain brands pop up as well, go natural and a lot of these people essentially use the same कि भाई हम backtrack करें. What I'm trying to understand is, is there a real price point difference in terms of both in terms of cost of production and then when you're able to then sell it कि क्या वाकई margin में difference है क्योंकि एक economy of scale का भी difference है. ज़ाहिर जब आपने start किया होगा तो आपने एक बड़ा sort of sweat shop से style से शुरू किया और ICSEs को scale up किया. But when you compare that to let's say Tabasco's global वह तो बहुत बड़ा footprint है. वह बहुत different scale पर उसको produce कर रहे हैं. तो but was there a real opportunity in terms of price point as obviously dollar kept on growing and imports were curtailed and वह सारे मस्ते हो रहे थे? And दूसरा, I'd be curious कि ketchup and basic चीज़ें तो चले टमाटर है उसके साथ आपने कर लिया. Mayo के अंदर भी I think अंडा होता है और वह दो चार और ingredients होते हैं. But sauces के अंदर flavors निकालने के लिए then you would require very specific ingredients, right? And oftentimes those ingredients are then sourced from all sorts of different places all over the world whether they go through Dubai for example. तो वह एक अलग nightmare है. क्या आपकी जो सारी sourcing है वह Pakistan से ही हो रही है या उसके ingredients जो हैं वह you know you're able to source them properly? उसकी supply chain किस तरह मैंने जाए? आपने कहा ना कि छह महीने लगते हैं. अब एक बंदा आया उसने आगे कहा कि यार मुझे यह बड़ी unique किस्म की एक sauce चाहिए Mexican sriracha. अब उसको backtrack करके उसके ingredients को figure out करते हुए कुछ time तो लगेगा Pakistan में आप चुटकी बजाकर तो नहीं निकाल सकते. So how difficult was it actually to, know, figure out the the whole production aspect of these sauces.

Guest

देखो even ketchup में हमें problem over करती थी. I remember there was one point of time I went to Pakistan customs. बहुत पुरानी बात बता रहा दो हज़ार So you know lot of time these kind of issues happened और लेकिन फिर उसके बाद चीज़ें बेहतर होती थी कि dollar महंगा हो गया, duty लग गई, सख्ती हो गई. So वह जाकर अपनी place पर आ गई और फिर वहां पर what you were saying was right कि वह cost benefit आया but now अब अब इतना cost benefit नहीं है क्योंकि हमारा few dollarized है, हमारी gas dollarized है, हमारी you know सारी चीज़ें almost dollarized ही हो गई है other than may be wages शायद हमारी dollarized ही होंगी. You know वह उधर शायद थोड़ा benefit आ जाता होगा. But other than that human cost अगर आप हटा दें तो आपकी हर चीज़ मोटी मोटी dollarized ही है you know. But again देखिए dollarized तो अगर है commodity dollarized है.

Muzamil

उसमें मैं अगर apples to apples comparison करूं कि यार again कोई particular Japanese sauce जो है वह Japan में जितने की बनती है versus Pakistan में जितने की बनती है. उसकी price अगर same हो मैं मानता हूं. लेकिन वह Japan में बनने के बाद फिर वह किसी local area में जाती है. Let's say Thailand तक पहुंचती है, फिर Thailand से वह Dubai तक पहुंचती है, फिर Dubai से वह Pakistan आती है, Pakistan में इस सारे उसमें nodes हैं. वह जो कि कहीं ना कहीं उसमें value chip कर रहे हैं, right? Distributors हैं, dealers हैं, custom clearing agents हैं. मुझे यह बात समझ नहीं आती कि जो final product आ रही है उसकी price कैसे normal पाकिसानी price से compete कर सकती है? Because there has lost a lot of और the value should have increased because there are so many nodes versus you directly producing it in your factory and directly selling it to the customer. But but बहुत बार यह भी होता ना कि direct manufactured

Guest

इन सारे nodes को हो जाए directly अपना एक distributor पाक्षाण में appoint करें उसको दे दें. So वो सारी chain bypass हो जाएगी and then that would be direct और वो आपसे भी compete करें but that depends on product to product, company to company and there is lot of variables to it. So वो वो इतना ज़्यादा factor technique है तो factor जो तंग करता था हमें मतलब its always I think its good to have competition. अगर international competition हो it always keep you up your game and you know you are always up there trying to seek out to do better. अगर वह नहीं होगा तो फिर आप you know slack करेंगे और lazy हो जाएंगे. हां complacent हो जाएंगे. यह सारे होंगे. So it's good but at least वह एक level playing field यह एक fair game पर आए. Problem यह होती थी जब वह कुछ चीज़ आ गई बाहर से जो कि duty देकर ही नहीं आई और आप duty देकर चीज़ें लेकर खरीद कर चीज़ बना रहे हैं तो वह महंगी होगी, बाहर वाली सस्ती होगी. So that was I think problem but यह पहले हुआ करती थी अब मेरे ख्याल से मैं यह तो नहीं बोलूंगा खत्म हो गई है but बहुत ही minimalistic हो गई है अब इतनी इतनी रही नहीं है I think कई किसी pockets में मिल जाती होगी तो होगी वरना यह रहेगा नहीं यह problem अब. How much of your material are you sourcing locally? I think it would be about 6070% जो हम locally लेते होंगे बाकी बीस तीस फीसद बाहर से आता होगा but locally भी जो हम लेते हैं for example एक pet की bottle है plastic की bottle आपने लेनी है अब उसका दाना जो है वह बाहर से ही आता है plastic वही एक bottle हो रहा है. तो अब आप बोतल बाहर से ले या दारा बाहर से ले but आप ले दो बाहर से ही रहे. ठीक है? That makes sense. But that's packaging. I am talking about the actual product like the the raw raw material. में आप बहुत सारा Pakistan का मतलब raw material में आप तेल ले लें. तेल के seeds Pakistan में बाहर से ही आते हैं. Like soy bean seed बाहर America से आ रहे हैं. तो अब आप

Muzamil

soya oil Pakistan से ले ले लीजिए. Close your mind right like you are in a green economy 35% of your GDP is agriculture and then still agri products में भी अगर आपको बाहर से मंगवाना पड़ा है तो that is just sort of kind of sad. हां सोचोगे क्या आप mayonnaise के लिए oil Pakistan में आज के दिन तक सब buyer से लेते हैं. सिर्फ soya

Guest

seed buyer से आता है यहां उसकी crushing यहां पर होती है but आप बोले हां मैं locally ले रहा हूं लेकिन वह local तो नहीं है वह तो imported है. So वह वही dollar packed है मतलब PKR का तो उसमें कोई काम नहीं है या कमाल नहीं है. So और वह वही global oil market के trends को follow करेगा जो दुनिया भर में हो रहा है. So आप उसमें कुछ भी नहीं कर सकते. So हम अगर एक length से देखें तो हमें लगता है कि यह हम locally है but वह in base अगर अब उसकी आप backend पर जाकर देखेंगे तो कहीं होगा. What we have done in last two years is two things and I feel very proud of it. The has done lot of vertical integration. So एक जमाने में अगर कोई paper थी वह हम बाहर से लिया करते थे South America से या South Africa से. अब वह we have invested a lot in R and D in terms of developing that chilli, growing that chilli over here. Still in a prototype in a small scale but yes we are starting to go on that direction कि अब वो chilli भी हमें तक grow कर लें क्योंकि बहुत सारी chilis grow भी हो सकती है. हम दो ही तीन चार किस्मे की चिली इधर कर रहे हैं. Pakistan में एक बहुत बड़ा area है which is called कुंडी and उमर कोट. It's in सिंध next to राजस्थान India where these chilies are grown which is one of the Asia's biggest market for red chili. But हम gold मिर्च, अपनी कश्मीरी मिर्च, अपनी लाल मिर्च, यह करें but we are now working with the farmers, with progressive farmers in that area to grow for example, cayenne pepper, for example, a Tabasco pepper Very cool. Jalapeno pepper. So so we are we are working towards that and we have done done quite a bit in that area. Makes sense.

Muzamil

Tell me about now the international expansion, right? So Pakistan में आपने capture कर लिया, सारा कुछ हो गया. एक certain confidence चाहिए होता है आपको अपना माल गोरे को बेचने के लिए. So, this, what what what are जो international expansion आपकी हुई है, is this targeted towards just देसी community? या are you race agnostic, flavor, you know anyone जो किसको समझ आ रही है वह ख़रीद रहा है?

Guest

अच्छा इसमें दो चीज़ें I think for example I will give you an example इसमें. जब आप कोई पाक्सानी biscuit एक गोरे buyer को समझाएंगे ना कि भाई यह हमारा biscuit है और हम बचपन इसी biscuit से हुए हैं. I cannot name them because I think they won't like I know. But अगर आप समझाएंगे ना तो शायद उसको नहीं समझ आएगा. वह बोलेगा यह क्या है? For example मैं मसाले की बात बता देता हूं. For example अगर आप किसी को बोले यह तिक्का मसाला है तो may be गोरे buyer को तिक्का मसाला हो तो चलिए फिर भी समझ आ जाएगा but थोड़ी देर से समझ आएगा वह चक नहीं सकता. लेकिन अगर आप उसे बोलेंगे यह barbecue sauce है you can try it right now. I think and he can try it and he can relate to it. He can understand the flavor. He will know if it's a good barbecue sauce or bad barbecue sauce in one second, right? Because वह भी बचपन से वह खा रहा है. So it was easier to convince people on on on our products to a buyer than on a very ethnic kind of a product or a portfolio. But this was a, this was a reality which I found out later क्योंकि पहले जब मैं किसी से बात करता था ना, बोलता था आप sauce कैसे बेचेंगे मतलब Heinz है, Tabasco है, Frank है. आप मर जाएंगे आपके द्वारा साहब Right भी नहीं बेच like that's just जिस level पर वो लोग कर रहे हैं ठीक है पाकिस्तानी शायद local producer complacent है उसने diversify नहीं किया but बाहर वाला जो है उसके पास तो इतनी बड़ी फौज है research कि उसके पास तो सौ साल का experience है. Yes.

Muzamil

Even more than India for example.

Guest

यह तो impossible है. Yes so that was the same feedback I was given कि आप पाक्षाल में तो चले lot of people used to come up and say कि नहीं पाक्षाल में आप यह fluke लग गया buyer नहीं हो सकता यह. यह possibly नहीं है यह it will never happen and I used to say कि हां and you know sometimes I used to also get bogged down इंसान है इंसान कभी कभी demotivate हो जाते हैं and I used to get bogged down कि यार वाकई में शायद सही कह रहे होंगे. यह भी पढ़े लिखे लोगे. जाहिल तो नहीं है. Maybe what they are saying is right and if you see it from a very logical perspective, it looks right you know. Heinz बैठवाए, Frank's है, Tabasco है यह global companies है जो दो सौ साल से operate कर रही है. So उधर आपका कोई chance नहीं है but I think it's it's kind of a myth तो मैं नहीं कहूंगा इसे but it's kind of a thing that you have to challenge yourself and try something new. So what I did was a different technique. हमने थोड़ा सा उस पर अपनी science लगाई है. हमने बोला यार हम गोरे बाहर को ना पहले, पहले गोरे को पकड़ेंगे तो देसी खुद आ जाएगा. वह कहता था कि product तो बेहतरीन है काम बनाए. हम बोलते हैं Pakistan में बोलते हैं यह तो यह क्या बात हुई? तो अनुमानी उसे छोड़े आप product track करें and lot of people gave us work because they like the product in itself. Though sometimes they used to challenge the origin of production कि यार वहां से आप कैसे करेंगे हमारे volumes यह, वह है. बहुत सारी चीज़ें वह होती थी but they they like the product.

Muzamil

What was the way in? Were you doing consumer with in all of these countries के retail stores में bottles पड़ी नहीं है या were you then doing the same B2B जो आप Pakistan में कर रहे थे कि यार

Guest

restaurants को supply किया या chains Export को supply पर हमने consumer पहले शुरू किया था. Export पर हमने पहले consumer शुरू किया. अच्छा इसमें we were also I would say जितनी हमारी मेहनत थे उतनी मेहनत अल्लाह तालान हमारे साथ की कि वो COVID आ गया. So COVID really helped us. It's a कोई controversial statement but COVID really helped us क्योंकि Europe से यह western sources जो आते हैं वह basically Europe और North America से आते हैं. Europe और North America आधा वैसे ही बंद हो गया था COVID में और उनकी factories जो थी वो जो बना रही थी वो सिर्फ Europe और North America up के लिए बना रही थी, export के लिए बना रही नहीं थी because production उसका down from thirty days to fifteen days और वो supply उनके बाद raw material खत्म होने का मसला था वह नहीं आता. So we got lot of markets in GCC and Asia which where the shelves were getting empty and when the shelves were getting empty they wanted to get any good quality product जो जहां से भी आ जाए जल्दी आ जाए because they didn't wanted क्यों एक इस तरह के chaos में ना एक impulse buying और एक crazy buying भी हो रही होती है. Where everybody is trying to do the hoarding कि नहीं अगर एक मोतल नहीं तो तीन ले लो. आगे COVID पता नहीं कब दुकान खुलेगी कब नहीं खुलेगी. So lot of these shops in in around the world were getting empty. That's where we got lucky. We got some good, I got some good alumni who helped me at that particular point of time जिसने बोला अच्छा चले हम, हम एक दो दोस्त थे वो बहुत बड़े retailers में head of buying थे. तो उन्होंने बोला चलो हमारा retail store रख लेगा. There was one country उधर से एक जाने वाले ना मैं connect किया and then we said and he said कि अच्छा मैं एक mix container बना कर दे दो हम लेते and then I remember we did the production during COVID days and we send it out so fifteen days का lead time था वह वहां पहुंचा. एक महीने बाद they gave us an order of 10 containers. We got तो हमने बोला यह तो दस बनाएंगे कैसे पहले तो सवाल यह आ गया फिर इसके पैसे नहीं थे. Which which helped us in terms of getting these markets. Japan was one of them, Saudi was one of them, Lebanon was one of them. Lot of markets we got share, good market share during the COVID days.

Muzamil

How many countries are you now actively selling? जिसमें आप मैं कहता हूं monthly active countries. जिसमें आपको पता है कि यार जाना जाना है माल.

Guest

About 33 countries we serve. उसमें से I think सारी active countries हैं. Like सारी countries में जो बड़े retailers है there you will find depth there. If you will go to UK you will find us at Esda या farm fresh या B and M सब जगह मिल जाएगा आपको इन इन जो बड़े retailers हैं इसी तरह बाकी जगह भी.

Muzamil

यह जो मुझे US का तो पता है कि US का एक बड़ा process होता है FDA का और वह सारा का सारा. Generally globally क्या you know होता है when when it comes to food items? What's the regulatory environment like certification regulatory? कोई मतलब होता है? किस level पर होता है? Food पर काफी है and the

Guest

most strict market in terms of food certification is Japan. So Japanese are very strict in terms of compliance and testing and food quality and food you know उनके उनके जो bar is very high. I think it's on the top. Even more than the Germans है मुझे. So, so वह काफी ज़्यादा होता है. So, so but I think हमने काफी हमें KFC McDonnell ने काफी सिखाया. इन्होंने हमें काफी सिखाया कुछ हमें आता था. So we did that team. We got some good people. So we did quite a bit certification. I think right now if you pick up in terms of certification, डिपित would be one-one of the top most companies in Pakistan who has food quality certification right now.

Muzamil

Interesting. जो जो एक तो यह हो गया ना आपका कि यार माल बना लिया, माल बेच लिया. यह यह part तो हो गया. I think the next phase then that comes in एक वह corporatization है कि how do you create systems and structures to ensure कि जो चीज़ जो success एक दफा हुई है उसको हम autonomously replicate कर सकते हैं for a long period of time निगरानी में चलता रहता है. फिर succession का मसला आता है. फिर वह उस business के टुकड़े टुकड़े करके सबको बांट देते हैं और फिर वह literally businesses सारे restart करते हैं. Right right? Rather than कि भाई एक board बनाएं. सब बच्चों को board में बिठाएं. एक professional CEO को लेकर आएं और scale कराएं business को. But then there's just succession. Even otherwise, बहुत ज़्यादा businesses जो हैं वह SME level पर आकर रुक जाते हैं क्योंकि again वह systems, processes, which is annoying, वहां पर आपको एक certain अपनी control देना पड़ता है. You have to trust people and you have to trust your your workforce to be able to do the right thing and you have to build systems of accountability on top of that. But more importantly जो the reason why what I'm alluding to is कि अब आपका माल तो retail stores में पहुंच गया, right? लेकिन आज मैं TV लगाता हूं Pakistan से बाहर तो मुझे Heinz के mega stars के साथ वह नज़र आ रहे हैं. क्योंकि FMCG is all about recall कि मैं ठीक है flavor is one thing but there is so much variety now कि अगर मुझे constantly ad service होता रहेगा Heinz का या इसका या उसका तो मैं that's the more likely वह जो मैं उठाऊंगा और चूंकि अब काफ़ी जगहों के ऊपर grocery is also becoming, you know, online तो जो brand recall है मैं search ही उसको करता हूं. पहले वक़्त में अगर मैं shelf पर जाता था तो shelf पर जाकर के you know I would look at 10 things. Price point would make a buying decision और बहुत सारी चीज़ें मुझे करवाएंगी. नई interesting branding आ रही है मैं उठा लूंगा. अब अगर मेरे पास brand recall एक particular product की है मैं वही उठाऊंगा. मैं जाऊंगा, मैं search करूंगा, मैं वह लूंगा, add to cart करूंगा, आगे निकल जाऊंगा. So, have you started thinking about कि यार जो brand building है मेरी base तो हो गई. Foundational layer तो मैंने पूरी figure out कर ली which in itself has been a monumental task but अब मैंने इसका brand किस तरह build करना है globally?

Guest

Yeah, I'll address both both the things that you ask. So basically दिपित में I I think during COVID I realize कि यार यह जो मैं decision making कर रहा हूं may be इसमें से शायद कुछ सही हो, कुछ hindsight में शायद सही ना हो. You know इंसानें गलती हो जाती है. Sometime when you attach too much to the baby then may be are biased also as you know sometimes when you make a you pick the wrong thing. So I thought you know there has to be an accountability on on on me also because lot of people jobs is is associated with me. There is lot of things associated with me. So मेरी accountability किसी को भी नहीं थी. मैं किसी को भी जवाब दे नहीं था. So I thought क्या यह structure सही नहीं है. मुझे गलती एक तो पहली मेरी accountability होनी चाहिए. दूसरा जितना मुझे आता था या जितना मैंने सीखा था उतना तो मैंने कर लिया. अब आगे शायद मुझे भी नहीं आता तो मुझे भी सीखने की ज़रूरत है किसी से. So what I did in I think during COVID days was that we formed a board. अब board में board members normally there is a numeration to it. So मैंने ना मेरे पास तो numeration के पैसे नहीं थे. तो हमने बोला कि यार यह क्या करें? तो फिर what I did was कि मेरे दो bosses रह चुके हैं. तीन. They were kind enough they they all agreed they said हां कोई नहीं हम करेंगे and since 2022 they have been the guiding force for me and they have been vigilant be मतलब keeping us on our toes, keeping us grounded, making sure that our plans are in the right direction and and you know if if you are if you are making any wrong decision then they they pull the truck plug out कि यार यह चीज़ सही नहीं यह ना करो इसको इस तरह कर लो या इसको नहीं करो. So अब यह बहुत वह हो गया. So एक तरीके से accountability भी आ गई जिसको हम आगे जाकर बता सकेंगे कि यह किया हमने यह, यह सही किया या यह गलत किया या यह करना है, यह सही है या नहीं यह बता दें और एक तरीके से support system भी आ जाता है इसमें you know कि आपके पास there is three numbers that you can dial in at any point of time to learn or to understand or to take advice or to ask कि जी इसमें help out करते हैं ज़रा. So, so यह बड़ा structure हो जाता है. अच्छा इसमें problem यह होती है कि जब मैं करने लगा तो मुझे लोगों ने बोला यार मतलब तुम्हारी तरफ से अभी वह decide करेंगे. मैंने कहा हां भाई करना पड़ेगा board है तो वही करेंगे मतलब और तुम्हारा appraisal भी वही करेंगे so मैंने कहा हां वही करेंगे. So you know lot of time people feel shy from doing this कि आप owner of the business तो है but आपकी चीज़ें भी कोई और dictate कर रहे है. So I think यह करना चाहिए. इससे बहुत help out हो जाते हैं. बहुत गलतियां करने से बच जाता इंसान और you don't have to pay the price of that mistake जो आप बच जाएंगे क्योंकि obviously उन लोगों ने companies मुझसे बहुत बड़ी बड़ी companies head करीगी तो उनका experience और exposure और उनका view point बहुत अलग होगा और बहुत बेहतर होगा और maturity I think उनके decision में होगी may be शायद मैं मेरी वह ना हो. So I think वह help out करता है. तो एक वह part हमने बनाया I think this is the third or the fourth year with that board is still guiding us. Is still three members that we we picked up in 2022 and they are still there and helping us out. So that's that's the one thing over there. The second question that you asked was कि which was about Around brand building and and and Brand building. You know So अच्छा brand building may be visible. So brand building one of the board members so जब हमने board member choose किया तो उसमें एक जो है वह hardcore sales का मतलब he is the he is the guy behind the sales and and with the with the उनकी understanding sales की बहुत ज़्यादा है. One of them she has been I think head of marketing for Unilever and she is headed Unilever and is the marketing guru for me. You know so whenever I go and seek out तो मेरा पहला point of contact वही होता है. Obviously अपनी brand team और brand managers सारे हैं but जो भी plan final करते हैं वह मोटा मोटा उनके पास से गुज़र कर ही जाता है. So I think वह बहुत help out जाती है जब आपके पास इतना senior resource at is over there in your team to guide you out. दूसरी चीज़ जो थी वह यह भी है कि brand building जो है ना it's a people think कि एक रात पर brand वन जाएगा या कुछ हो जाएगा. Brand खराब तो एक रात में हो सकता है लेकिन बनने के लिए ना you have to slowly gradually build blocks and I think that the best communicator for your brand is the consumer क्योंकि consumer जो authentic और जो आपका feedback दे सकता है ना वह उसे उस वह brand building में बहुत part play करता है. So we have always focus in terms of connecting with the consumer and and you know making sure के वो feedback जो है वो resonate करे, वो feedback, word of mouth आगे पहेले, you know all of those things which are fundamental वो वो. हमने जैसा Saudi Arabia भी एक छोटा सा campaign किया था I think पिछले साल पहले और हमने वहां से हमने बहुत increase देखा. हमने यही किया कि हमने consumer से पुछा कि भाई आपको हमारी sauce की क्या चीज़ method लगती है you know and very authentic हमने उसे मतलब बहुत ज़्यादा कोई हमने उसे organized manner में नहीं किया है. We kept it very real. So I think वह बहुत help out करता है and then there were few things that we did in terms of brand building. We made sure that the quality stays the same. The premium packaging, the premium feeling of the product जो day one से वह compromise कहा ना कहीं पर भी ना हो और जो brand की values है जिस पर stand करते हैं उस पर हम कहीं पर compromise ना करें. So उसको कर कर और और एक हमारा founding pillar है innovation. हम innovation को कभी पीछे ना हटे उससे and we keep on innovating. Every year if you see, if you go on the shelf every every year you will find two new products from dippet because food cycle change हो जाए. अगर आप एक burger खाते थे तो अब आप वह burger पूरी ज़िंदगी नहीं खा सकते. अगर मैं mister burger खाकर बड़ा हुआ हूं या you know अगर इस्तामाबाद वाले papa salads का pizza खाकर बड़े हुए हैं तब you know उससे कुछ करना पड़ेगा उसे innovation कुछ इतना कुछ लानी पड़ेगी क्यों अब उससे काम चलने वाला नहीं है. So, so we keep on working on those basic pillars जो है and and try to you know build the brand through them.

Muzamil

Where do you think you go from here? So in lot of ways जो एक ordinary mind है वह कहेगा कि यार आपने तो conquer कर लिया सारा. आपने local market भी conquer कर लिया. आपने काफ़ी हद तक वह भी कर लिया. Yes, it's a number game. Numbers आप multiply करते रहें. आप 32 को 60 कर लें. आप x amount of revenue को y amount पर ले जाएं. But is there something that excites you? And particularly the the reason why I'm asking this question is I have a friend who's who who's who does a And so as a founder, I'm curious कि now it seems like कि अब वह एक बड़ी sort of standardized किस्म की, corporatised किस्म की growth है. वह आपने day in, day out वह करना है. Yes, you're innovating, but it's also like a standardized cycle of innovation. What would be your five year, ten year road map? Not just standard अच्छा जी, हमने इतना बढ़ाना है, but rather something that excites you, Something that you are actively looking forward to considering how organically passionate you have been about this and the way that you have made it grow.

Guest

I I think देखो उसके I in my view दो चीज़ जवाब है. एक तो यह है ना वो vision और mission जो होते हैं हर organization का. तो अगर वो तुम हमारा देखोगे तो हमारा मुझे लगता है हमने बहुत एक monumental चीज़ अपने लिए सोची है. हमारा vision यह कहता है कि जी we have to be on every dining table across the globe. So now that's a very big thing. Don't know उसमें शायद मेरी या I don't know मेरी मतलब I don't know साई company की साई ज़िंदगी लग जाएगी तो may be that's possible or not possible I don't know. But that's what we are seeking out. If you ask me personally कि आप क्या करना चाहते हैं? मेरा एक यह है कि यार हम एक agree country हम कहते हैं अपने आप को हम है नहीं. मेरे ख्याल से हम है नहीं. हमें बहुत सारी चीज़ें agree में करनी है जो कि हमने नहीं करीगी. I think के there is lot of imports like for example मैं तुम्हें example देता हूं. I was in Poland में हमारे distributor आए Poland से. वह मुझे बोलते हैं यार हमारा पाक्षानी आम बहुत अच्छा है. And then he told me कि यह मसला है मैंने यह इनसे बात की यह सबसे बड़े mango के producer हैं Pakistan के इन्होंने बोला घर भाग जाओ कुछ नहीं हो सकता तुम्हारा. You know lot of these and I said यह वाला आपका मसला ना हल करेंगे. So वहां पर खाना है थोड़ा सा tricky हो जाता है, right? But यह हम क्यों नहीं कर सकते? यह problem solve क्यों नहीं कर सकते? हमारा आम वहां पर मतलब अगर आपको चौसा का syrup या कुछ और इस तरह का मिल जाए, is like a paste or a पीढ़ी you can use it in whatever mango lassi or mango shake or whatever you want to make you can make it across the air. So I think I can add lot of value on these kind of thing which will help the country and which will help the consumer both. So इस तरह की चीज़ें I think this is something very exciting also तो मुझे यह excite भी करेगा. So I want to solve these kind things.

Muzamil

कि जो जो आपका overall DNA वन चुका है वह बहुत multifaceted किस्म का है और मैं उसको what I mean by that is अभी few days ago I was discussing with my brother तो he talked about कि भाई have you heard of this honey? मुझे exactly उसका नाम नहीं याद. New Zealand से एक particular honey आता है. हां. और उसका जो है ना वह उसका एक indicator होता है eight fifty, five fifty और वह उसके हिसाब से उसकी जो medicinal value है वह निकाली जाती है. अच्छा वह honey आप लेकर आए ना तो वह एक kilo कोई ढाई तीन सौ dollar का मिलता है. Yes. और हमने backtrack किया तो पता लगा कि जी जिस और वह बड़ा वह है ही New Zealand का honey क्योंकि वह एक particular पौधे से निकलता है. अच्छा वह my brother got into that rabbit hole. He's a big honey buff. तो उन्होंने जब वह करना शुरू किया उन्होंने कहा कि यार New Zealand और Yemen के दो इलाकों के honey हैं जो कि gold standard है. Even अगर आप Dubai भी जाएं तो वहां पर Yemen का honey बहुत ज़्यादा आपको expensive और बड़ा luxury product के तौर पर मिलता है. अच्छा, Yemen में जो वन रहा है I think सिद्र का दरख़्त होता है या कौन सा होता है? वह exact honey Pakistan में produce हो रहा है और Pakistan में उसकी cost अगर मैं retail पर जाकर Dubai की निकालूंगा और मैं Pakistan कहूंगा Pakistan में one tenth का मिल रहा है, right? फ़र्क़ यह है कि New Zealand और Yemen, हालांकि Yemen तो बेचारी war torn country हुई भी है लेकिन Yemen का जो honey बिक रहा है उसकी कि यार, how do I test? How do I get the certification? How do I get the FDA approval? And how do I bring the पाकिस्तानी honey here? Once I have done that तो selling it is, you know, you have the online distribution network जो कि पूरा exist करता है. And that's just one product. There are a billion other products like you mentioned. अब आपने distribution भी figure out कर ली है. आपने उसको बहुत सारी चीज़ें आपने उस तरह से figure out कर ली हैं supply chain की. Would you stick to as you're growing and you would want to solve that problem, would you stick to the the sauce DNA that you have? Yeah, would you say कि ok, I mean, you said mango, but then you said कि मैं उसका sauce में convert करके मैं उसको निकाल दूं. Right? Would you actually try to solve that problem in seemingly other areas as well? जो कि, for example, food ही या agri product है, but it's not necessarily sauce. It's leveraging on your previous experience of कि यार मैंने यहां से export को किस manage करना है, मैंने वहां पर import को किस तरह manage करना है, मैंने वहां पर distribution किस तरह करनी है. And I feel like कि यह that part of Pakistan यह चाहे आप salt को देख लें, crappy तरीके branding होती है पाकिस्तानी salt India से rebrand होकर बेहतरीन बिक रहा है. आपका rice इसी तरह चल रहा है, rebrand, literary brand का problem है, product वही है. Honey I've just mentioned. So if you were to expand, would you stick to sauces? Or would you or or rather sort of liquid category? Or would you actually explore कि यार मैं f like food and beverage या FMCG के अंदर Pakistan में क्या क्या opportunities हैं और मैं अपने existing experience को leverage करके मैं उनको भी आगे लेकर जाऊं.

Guest

देखो I will address both the thing. जो the problem that you have point out ना this is this is the problem that we have seen. The problem यह है कि आपके जो manufacturer है ना they want easy win, no value addition and no investing in terms of कि R and D में हम कुछ लगा दें और उसका कुछ result कर लें. So easy value क्या है? No value add क्या है? कि जी नमक लो काला वह pink salt और आगे भेज दो. Dubai भेज दो Dubai में उसका या फिर उसका वह lamp बना दो इसी तरह यह यह एक तो R and D में हम invest नहीं करते और यह वाला काम नहीं करते. दूसरा problem यह है कि जो एक बंदा कर रहा ना वह सब कर लें. क्योंकि उसने वह sort out कर दिया होता है ना mechanism. तो आप वह कर लें. अपनी तरफ से नया उसमें ना चीज़ add नहीं करनी, value add नहीं करनी. So I think यह दो तीन problems हैं but I think still जब तुमने उसकी बात की कि solid या liquid देखो food पर ही मेरे ख्याल से इतना काम हम कर सकते हैं कि अगर हम food पर ही सिर्फ पाक्सानी गधे घोड़ों को खिला देते या ज़ाया कर देते हैं और फिर वह जब नहीं मिलता तो वह ढाई सौ रुपए किलो मिलते हैं. So there is lot of problem over over here but again these problems, these challenges are opportunities also.

Muzamil

So somebody needs to come and invest and do the work, do the मेहनत वाला काम and convert them into into real world. That's what I saying. So example मैं कहता हूं कि अगर मैं बहुत simple करूं आपका wings वाला था. आपने थोड़ी देर पहले भी बोला भी कि यार मैं frozen wings कर लूं या मैं नहीं करूं तो भाई KNN ही कर ले खुद आगा वास्ते, right? And interestingly, I I I tried KNN in in The US and they're producing it locally and I think वह my understanding is कि उन्होंने यहां पर किसी third party factory को contract किया हुआ है कि यार यह recipe है इसको कर दो. तो वह it's really it's really bad. And and I actually saw कि Indian and Korean and a lot all of these products are made in Korea और India. वह बहुत आराम से import हो रही हैं और उनका बेहतरीन Big B राय because flavor and वह सारी चीज़ें unique हैं to to to where they're from. Mhmm. If you I mean, I understand you you mentioned earlier कि चौबीस घंटे में उसमें क्या, सब कुछ तो नहीं कर सकता ना? Like, I'll do what I'm good at, and I'll double down on that. But then you actually have the knowledge base that helps, that can be sort of expanded into other areas. So अगर मैं बहुत simple करूं, मैं कहूं यार even देसी communities जो कि जितना शान का मसाला export हो रहा है हो रहा है, national का मसाला export हो रहा है हो रहा है, Sauces हो रही हैं हो रही हैं. लेकिन जो आपका 10,000,000 you have like the second third largest diaspora in the world. आप अगर उसी को ही देखें तो आपका मुझे यह समझ नहीं आता आज तक कि पाकिस्तानी food not, क्या कहलाता है? Cook करने वाला जो आपके deep frying वाला जो item आता है कि nuggets और this और that. पाक्षाणी food, actual food, right? वह निहारी वाली एक मैंने recently try किया वह एक can में आती है कराची में. वह भी कराची में ही बिकता है वह Pakistan में up north भी नहीं आता. दूसरा कि यह बाहर क्यों नहीं जा रही? Like बाहर तो मसला ही है double income सारी families हैं. ख़्वार हुए में एक काम वाला है कोई नहीं. बाहर से तो restaurants में कर नहीं सकते तो भाई खाना देसी है. At the end of the day taste bud वही है. Why are people not haven't got it? And that's like such a huge missed opportunity. So I'm curious. Would you get into let's say other categories? क्या मज़ी यह सारा हो गया अब मैं food में घुस जाता हूं. Or if you're not getting it into it yourself, would you be open to then partnering with people? क्योंकि we have a certain strength. You can come in, you drive this with us. We'll, let's say, invest. We'll use our supply chain and we'll partner. कि मेरा focus fully उस पर ना आ जाए, but at least we can leverage on whatever we've built till now.

Guest

अच्छा इसमें maybe my point of view is different than than yours you know. What I would say is that you know एक हमारी expertise है और एक इंसान हर चीज़ नहीं कर सकता, right? I would be more than happy to help somebody out and and let them do what they are doing and help them out कि यार यह आप बेहतर किस्सा कर लें. मैं तुम example देता हूं इसकी एक. Recently ना chocolates बहुत महंगे हो गए Pakistan में. I don't know तुम कब से Pakistan से गए हुए but if you now try इधर chocolates बहुत महंगे हो गए and somebody came to me and they make chocolates. So I asked them कि यार आप ना KitKat या Bounty या Mask जैसी chocolate अच्छी क्यों नहीं बनाते? आपने यह खराब वाली chocolate बनाना ही ज़रूरी है? अच्छी क्यों नहीं? बिकती नहीं है. तो मैंने उनसे बोला कि आप custom का data निकलवाएं. बाकी channel से आती है. Possibly ज़्यादा ही हो सकती हां, so हां possibly यह है कि बहुत ज़्यादा possibility कि इसकी double उधर से आती होंगी. So there is a lot of market there मतलब fourteen Feb को सारी दुनिया chocolate ही दे रही होती है ना एक दूसरे को. So why can't you make a very good chocolate in in in you know and sell it out. Is a whole team मतलब there is a whole market out there in your own country and he said कि आप हमें help out कर दे आप हम के पास यह machinery इस पर हम trial कर ले And I and I told them कि आप आए Saturday बाद में हम अपनी हमारी machinery पर अपने trials करें. You know if if that can help you why not? आप करें. अगर काम कर जाए तो आप ऐसी machine का हमसे contact लीजिएगा और आप खरीद लीजिएगा whatever. So I would rather help these people out कि यार you guys use us in whatever way and you set up your thing क्योंकि आपकी चीज़ का अगर आपका अपना baby है तो आप उसकी जो take care कैसे आऐंगे शायद मैं नहीं कर पाऊं. And may be अगर मेरे नसीब में होगा तो मैं करूंगा अगर आपके नसीब में तो why not you do it and if you want any help we are there for you in in any way possible. So I would say कि मतलब I am open for you know helping people in terms of so that they don't face the same chances what I have faced and if they can leverage on me why not? मतलब why not? They don't have to go through the same path I think. अगर मैं कुछ कर सकता हूंगा तो why, why not और दूसरा perspective यह है कि may be अगर मैं उनके साथ partner कर लूं may be शायद मेरी team या मैं इतना focus ना करें जितना होना चाहिए क्योंकि एक नई चीज़ पर special attention और focus and care चाहिए होती है. So maybe that can help and recently we did that in some way. So they have used to have a company called caramel. They make cookies and so we recently partnered, worked with them and we said कि why not do it because I had my feeling कि you know जब मेरे parents बड़े हो रहे थे तो हम bakery से biscuit लिया करते थे. जब हम बड़े हो रहे थे तो हम यह market से लिया करते थे and now my kids when I ask them कि मुझे biscuits के brand बताओ तीन चार के अलावा उनको नाम नहीं पता थे. So I, so I thought you know there is a whole thing that you know eating pattern change हो रहा है you know confectionery में या biscuits में या cookies में whatever. So also then we partnered with them and now we are working with them. So इस तरह की अगर कोई opportunity आती है which makes sense which we we think is out of our category but still it makes sense then then then we would like to take that on board but अगर कोई बंदा और भी अच्छा काम कर रहा है तो ज़ोहिन ही हर चीज़ मैंने ही करनी है. If he can help them then why not? I I I think I'll try that down to what you mentioned earlier कि यार copy paste करने के बजाय success story को देखो और फिर कहो कि यार इसके model में मैं और innovative चीज़ क्या कर सकता और rather than मैं ऐसी कोई पूरा छाप रहा Right? So

Muzamil

पचास opportunities हैं. True crime podcast कर लो भाई, news की podcast कर लो. If you are seeing this as something that successful इस पर तो first जो first mover advantage है वह तो मैं ले गया. Yeah. इसी की category है पचास और हैं जिस पर तुम first mover हो जाओगे. तो just try to be थोड़ा चीज़ को उठाकर थोड़ा सा innovate कर लो and you can suddenly you know stand out. अब तो I think यहां पर वह आपकी बात बिल्कुल दुरुस्त है कि if you if you're seeing success, can actually leverage. And I think दूसरी चीज़ मुझे interesting नज़र आई है क्योंकि आपको ज़िंदगी में ना possibly because of the karma कि, you know, for your mother you move back, some decisions that you took, You were able to gather good people that you could trust that helped you out. And so that I I I feel like there is a DNA of giving back जोकि automatically I I do believe पाकिस्ताने बेचारे बड़े सारे लोग इतने मार खाए हुए होते हैं, इतना उनको धोखा हुआ होता है कि वह blood well guarded से हो जाते हैं कि यार ना मैंने किसी से बात करनी है, ना मैंने किसी को help करना है. And unfortunately, it ends up creating a very low trust society and you can't really grow unless there is collaboration. In your story, I'm hearing a ton of collaboration. चाहे वह distributor की हो, चाहे वह board members की हो, चाहे वह advisors की हो. I think without that collaboration, you wouldn't have been able to reach the skills that you have today where all these people that you had met and and and relationships that you had curated, one way or the other at some point helped you out, probably in without expecting anything in return.

Guest

I think देखो अगर आपके मतलब इसमें for example I will tell you कि मुझे एक सांप ने एक सांप के पास भेजा के जब when I was starting debate क्या आप इनके पास चले जाएं यह बहुत गुरु है या मतलब इनका बहुत अच्छा काम है और veg sauces भी बनाते हैं वह. मैं उनकी बात चला गया तो उन्होंने और वह उनका बहुत अच्छा काम है marshal अब. They are doing very well and they were doing very well at that time also. So I got really demotivated. मैं दो तीन दिन तक you know I decided I will not do it depend. पर मैं बोला यार अब तो मैंने इतना काम कर लिया अगर अब नहीं करूंगा पागलूंगा. Let's let's just like do it. तो मैंने कर लिया and then it worked out और फिर उन्होंने भी copy कर लिया. So it's good. They learned something from us but it's ok. So I think के you know लोग demotivate करते हैं but आप अगर if you, if you think it's right then take your chances and कभी कभार काम करेगा, कभी कभार नहीं भी करेगा which is fine. ज़िंदगी में हर चीज़ तो काम करे यह तो फिर बहुत बड़ा तुक्का हो जाएगा फिर. मतलब कभी कभार चीज़ें काम नहीं करती which is fine I think its ok. Are good days, they are bad days. So, so, so it's ok. I think इतना demotivate नहीं होना चाहिए, उतने serious भी नहीं होना चाहिए. कभी लोग ज़्यादा ही दिल पर ले आते हैं या I don't know. कभी कभार we do we launch a product it doesn't work, it's ok. It doesn't work. So what?

Muzamil

Yeah. जिहान भाई, I'm gonna wrap this up. We're at the one hour thirty minute mark. Thank you so much for taking the time out. It's one of my one of my most favorite episodes. I'll I'll tell you straight up. Largely because of the personality that you have, it's it's it's वह क्या कहलाती है? वह inviting personality है. You know, you have the leadership quality to you that that sort of drives you in. मैं इसको before I end this, I I I would like to ask a question that I generally ask all of my guests. And इसका context यह है कि आपने जो इसका जवाब देना है उसमें आपने कोई ifs नहीं देने कि यार if यह हुआ तो ऐसे होगा. I want your true thought on what you believe Pakistan would look like twenty five years from now, knowing what, you know, now you've been around, you've been, you've worked in different countries. For whatever personal reason, you decided to come back to Pakistan, you took a bet on Pakistan and अलहम्मद अल्लाह said it has worked out for you. उस level के ऊपर जब बंदा देख रहा होता है ना तो एक एक sort of macro lens develop हो जाती है जो कि vast majority of common person के पास नहीं होती. वह अपने day to day में फंसा रहता और वह उसी हिसाब से news cycle को देखकर अपना दिमाग़ बनाता है. आपके case में you you said a lot of times, a lot of things जो कि, you know, bets हैं या वह एक एक perspective है कि यार I see things evolving, trends changing. And so what do you see or how do you see पाक्षता? Not just in your industry but overall as a as a society, as an economy, twenty five years from now बहुत कुछ change हो जाएगा. बहुत सारे लोगों की एक certain shelf life है वह जाहिर है. Normally वह pass over होंगे, बहुत सारी generations power की position में आ जाएंगी. उसको मद्देनज़र रखते हुए. How do you see Pakistan twenty five years from now?

Guest

In my opinion I think we we would be evolving. I think हम हम अपने आप पर ना ज़्यादा ही critical हो जाते हैं. ऐसा नहीं है कि सब कुछ Pakistan में गलत हुआ. हां कुछ हुआ, कुछ कुछ सही भी हुआ होगा दस percent ही सही हुआ होगा पर सही हुआ है. I what the best thing that I see is कि हमारे बच्चे आप socially aware हो रहे हो और पढ़ रहे The youngsters कुछ ना कुछ पढ़ रहे हैं थोड़ा बहुत पढ़ रहे हैं. जितना पढ़ना चाहिए शायद उतना ना पढ़ रहे हो लेकिन पढ़ रहे हैं कुछ ना कुछ तो वह बेहतरी की तरफ ही जाती है. Maybe हमारी pace बेहतरी की तरफ जाने की शायद कम हो. उतनी ना हो जितनी होनी चाहिए या जितनी हो सकती है but I think we will survive we will do something as a nation. कहीं ना कहीं पहुंच ही जाएंगे हम and then it's not like सब कुछ ही बुरा है. There are few good things, there are few bad things. Maybe चाहे bad थोड़ी ज़्यादा होंगी, good थोड़ी कम होंगी but it's fine. I think यह हर जगह होती है. As far as लोग ethically और morally हमारे सही सोचने लग जाएं और सही को सही और बुरे को बुरा कहने लग जाएं. We would be fine. I think we would survive, we would do good.

Muzamil

Do you think the problems are I mean आज की snapshot के अंदर sentiment ऐसा है कि लोग easily यह कहेंगे कि यार the bad clearly outweigh the good, right? Because वह वह यह कहते हैं देखो दस हज़ार मसले उनको नज़र आ रहे हैं. अच्छा मेरा perspective उसमें यह है कि यार if if I would ask 10 people and nine of them will say कि यार the bad outweigh the good, that is a great sign because majority of your population is now beginning to reject the the the the old ways and is hoping for better. And and and I think that is the first step towards building the right foundation that can actually create a a much more sort of a progressive and and and अच्छी society. आपके scope में do you think कि we we we're we're headed in the right direction? Not necessarily to say कि policy wise और जैसे but generally कुछ ना कुछ कहीं ना कहीं सही हो रहा है macro level के ऊपर and the twenty five year old बाद का Pakistan अगर आज का बंदा देखेगा तो वह शायद एक बहुत बेहतर Pakistan देखेगा.

Guest

I I I would say कि सही हो रहा है उसकी मैं तो मैं reason और example भी दूंगा कि जब हम छोटे थे तो मैंने शायद TCF जैसा school नहीं देखा था. अब है पचास हज़ार बच्चा पढ़कर निकल रहा है वहां पर. शायद पहले ही नहीं पढ़ता था. इसी तरह की और बहुत सारी example है. लाम्ब मेरा school है. वह उधर I recently went about a year or two years back and the dean was telling me कि उनके पास अभी कोई बच्चा उन्होंने NOP उनका यह national outreach program उसमें लिया है वह कहीं चमन से आगे किसी जगह का किसी town का बच्चा है lumps पढ़ने. Can you just imagine that? और उसमें and they were telling me that there is somebody from GB who went to lumps and now is studying in harvard. So, अगर इस तरह की चीज़ें किसी society में orient तो कुछ ना कुछ सही हो जाएगा may be again शायद ज़्यादा time ले हम. शायद हम पच्चीस साल में तुम्हारा जो सवाल है वह शायद पचास साल में सही होगा but हो जाएंगे. I think इतना ज़्यादा परेशानी की बात नहीं है. As far as हर बंदा कुछ ना कुछ दिन में सही करता रहे, we will be fine.

Muzamil

Makes sense. दिशान भाई thank you so much for coming in and sharing all that insight. I wish you and Dipit all the very best. Thank you. And I am excited to see where you go from here. Thank you. Thanks thanks a lot for having me on your show. It was really good to have a conversation and I think it helps. Thank you. Thank you so much. And for all of you guys, thank you so much for watching. अगर आपको यह episode पसंद आई हो, आप दोस्तों यहां से ज़रूर share करिएगा. Let me know in the comment section below what are your thoughts? Have you tried the dippet sauces? What's your feedback? What which ones do you like? जो बहुत सारी और हमने बातें की FMCG sector के बारे में, पाकिस्तानी opportunity के बारे में, export के बारे में. What are your thoughts? I would love to know your feedback. But nonetheless, this was सैमिल असमलसन Zedi. You are watching Thought Behind Things. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one.