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Thought Behind Things · Dec 29, 2021 · 53:13

Success without fulfilment is the ultimate failure

Pakistani-Canadian entrepreneur Fahad Khan, CEO of Canada Prime Marketing, on selling credit cards in minus-40 weather, getting stiffed on commissions, why 98% of people shouldn't be entrepreneurs, and the line he wrote with Tony Robbins that reset his definition of winning.

with Fahad Khan

10 min read

A 14-year-old selling credit cards in a Canadian mall

The episode opens with Muzamil introducing Fahad Khan as the CEO of Canada Prime Marketing — a company recognised among Canada’s fastest-growing for three consecutive years — and asking the obvious question: how did a Pakistani kid end up running it? Fahad answers by going back to the start. He left Pakistan in February 2000, more than twenty-one years before the conversation, after a childhood spread across Rahim Yar Khan, Goth Machi, and Lahore, where his father worked as an engineer at the Fauji fertiliser plant.

The Canadian arrival is the part most immigrant stories skip. “When you’re new, it’s a cultural shock,” he says, “especially when high school starts.” His English was thin. A friend’s aunt was working in mall-based marketing, selling credit cards at trade-show booths, and a slot opened up when she was short-staffed. Fahad was sixteen. The minimum age was eighteen. Somebody made an exception, and he started selling.

That first job set the pattern for the next four to five years. The minimum wage at the time, he recalls, was about $5.90 an hour. He sold credit cards. He was, by his own account, an average student — Bs and Cs, a single A-plus in an open-book organisational behaviour exam he still remembers. His mother had always told him one of her sons would run his own business. His two older brothers became engineers. By process of elimination, Fahad got the assignment.

The eleven-thousand-dollar paycheque that arrived as nine hundred

The pivot moment Fahad keeps returning to is a single project at a ten-day festival. He was working a booth for a company that had set him a commission-based target. By the end of the run he had submitted what he calculated as roughly eleven thousand dollars in earned commission. The cheque that arrived was around nine hundred and eighty dollars. The company kept the rest.

“That was not the first time,” he tells Muzamil. “Several companies didn’t pay me.” The pattern repeated across employers. The grievance was not abstract — these were hours and shifts he had actually worked, sales he had actually closed in front of customers whose IDs he had personally taken. The result was a private decision rather than a public one. “Something inside kept poking me — enough of this.”

He enrolled in a two-year marketing diploma rather than a full undergraduate degree, partly because the family could not afford more. By 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, he started Canada Prime Marketing. The first contracts were small — pre-buying car-incentive trip certificates, working a pilot with a telecom company rolling out fibre-optic television. Then came door-to-door selling in minus-40 weather for one of Canada’s three telecom giants, the ones with the kind of reputation that makes referrals difficult. “If you tell someone in Pakistan they have to knock on doors house to house, they’ll say what a loser job,” he says. “I did it.” He learned, as he puts it, to fight back. Most people don’t.

Twelve years, three or four lean ones, and the test clients pose

Muzamil presses him on the arc since 2009 — twelve years in — and whether there were moments he considered the decision a mistake. Fahad does not soften the answer. “Never regretted it. I think it was the best thing.” Growth, he says, was thin for the first three to four years. The inflection came when larger clients started testing the company on specific projects. Pass the test and the relationship continues, because replacing a partner inside a large enterprise is genuinely costly. Fail it and the door closes.

This is the moment Muzamil widens the lens, because he can hear the audience he is concerned about. He points out the implicit risk of conversations like this one: a young listener hears the seventy-, eighty-, ninety-million-dollar revenue figures and concludes that quitting in six months will land them in the same place. “I feel like one of the biggest things that this generation particularly lacks is patience,” Muzamil says, and Fahad immediately agrees. “We are living in a world of instant gratification. Everything is on our button.”

The framing Fahad reaches for is borrowed from a researcher he cannot name but a concept he can: grit. Three months of trying is not perseverance. He is direct that this disqualifies most people from the path. “Ninety-eight percent of people shouldn’t” become entrepreneurs, he tells Muzamil, “because they’re not going to put in the ten hours, they’re not ready to walk out in minus-20 with their bag.” It is not a moral failing. It is a fit question.

The line he wrote in Australia on his birthday

The most personal section of the conversation arrives when Fahad describes one of his mentors, Tony Robbins. He has done sixteen events with Robbins and is one of his platinum partners. On a birthday in Australia, in the middle of a Robbins event, he was asked two questions. The first: what is life? The second: what is your purpose of existence, what are you here to create and leave behind?

He had been financially successful by then. Something was still missing. “Success without fulfilment is the ultimate failure,” he says, attributing the line to his mentor. He wrote his own mission statement that day, combining it with a phrase he had been circling for years. “Life is a gift and giving is our lifestyle.” That one line, he tells Muzamil, changed the way he sees things. Giving, in the version he now operates by, is not just money handed to someone hungry. It is knowledge handed to someone who has given up. “If you can help one person stay alive or move to the next level,” he says, “there is nothing more fulfilling. Once you help one, it becomes an addiction.”

Network is a story we tell. Relationship is a value exchange.

Muzamil draws him back to something Fahad mentioned earlier — the instruction to go and build a network of people you can serve. Muzamil sharpens it for the audience. People in Pakistan, he says, hear “network” and think of adding strangers as friends on Facebook. The thing that actually compounds is a relationship, and a relationship is a value exchange. He asks Fahad to expand.

Fahad lists the three things people should stop doing. The cold “Hello, how are you?” The “HRU.” The “NYC” that he still reads as New York City. If you actually want to connect with someone, the message has to be specific: where you met them, what you discussed, what you took from it, what you are asking for. “Lay out your full agenda,” he says. “Chances are I will respond.”

Then he gives the story he keeps for the end of this argument. As a student, he had a branding instructor named Theresa who used to say in class that she was so loyal to Starbucks she would drive fifteen minutes off her route for the coffee. Years later, after his business was settling, he ran into her at a networking event. He remembered the line. He told her he wished he had known she would be there because he would have brought her a Starbucks. The connection clicked. That evening, on his own initiative, he walked to a card shop in the same mall, bought a thank-you card, added a Starbucks gift card, wrote a handwritten note, and dropped it off. No agenda. She posted it to her followers. A few months later, the college called and asked him to be a brand ambassador. The line he had used in class — “transforming vision into venture” — became the headline of a half-million-dollar marketing campaign that ran for eight months with his face and name on it. “All you did is something good without expectation to receive.”

The sense of entitlement that screws everything else

Muzamil raises a case he has been thinking about — a young man who has been jobless for two years and keeps turning down offers because they are not the “perfect” job. He calls it a sense of entitlement. Fahad agrees and adds that he expects to be cancelled for saying so.

He gives the example that made the point for him. Three years earlier, on an early visit back to Pakistan, he sat in a friend’s real estate office. The tea boy was polished enough that Fahad suggested the friend train and groom him, because clients would see him. The friend’s response was that elevating staff that way would only make them arrogant. Fahad’s reading of that mindset is brutal: “You’re screwed already.” His counter-example is his own company. “I’m the ultimate janitor,” he says. He has swept the floor of his first office, cleaned the bathrooms, picked his sales team up from their homes, dropped them home at night. Canada Prime’s first office was a corner of his aunt’s forty-thousand-square-foot furniture store, a space “the size of this table.” The current head office is five thousand square feet on a top floor. The path between the two was not delegated.

The seventy-eight percent that won’t work

Later in the discussion, Muzamil walks Fahad through a number he has been carrying. According to a Pakistani government study, seventy-eight percent of IT graduates in the country are not employable. A private Pakistan Software Association study puts the figure above eighty-five percent. Four years of degree. Eighty-five out of a hundred unable to be productive on day one. The technical syllabus is not the gap. The personal-development layer between graduate and operator is.

Fahad agrees and points to a conference he had flown in for that was cancelled because of the OIC summit — a conference designed, in part, to address exactly this gap. He is not optimistic about the government solving it. He is not optimistic about incubators solving it either. He recounts a conversation with an incubator’s programme manager who told him, in effect, that ninety-seven percent of the startups that come through end up taking jobs by the end of the cycle, and the surviving three percent rarely last more than eighteen months. Muzamil’s response is sharp. “You’re giving the wrong solution to the right problem,” he says. Run six-month courses. Get them ready for jobs. That is what the money is actually doing.

Fahad adds a friend’s framing he likes: split the students into three buckets. The top one percent who genuinely want to go abroad to Stanford-tier institutions. The middle group who want to make money — give them ten thousand rupees and have them turn it into twenty, then forty, through real business activity. And the third group, the talkers. “I don’t buy that bucket either,” he says. “Very few will even be ready to talk.”

Unstoppable Pakistan and a thirty-year bet

Toward the end, Muzamil asks the question he asks every guest. Fahad will be sixty-six in thirty years. How does he see Pakistan then?

Fahad does not hedge. Power, he believes, is shifting toward Asia — China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan. China is already a technology powerhouse. Pakistan’s asset is human capital, and specifically a youth majority that the older economies do not have. He reveals on the podcast, for the first time publicly, the name of the organisation he is launching to address the personal-development gap directly: Unstoppable Pakistan. The choice of name is the same choice he has been making since the credit-card booths. External forces will come. The country has survived seventy years of them and done reasonably well. “Now we’re at the point where I think there will be the breaking point where we’ll be a dominant factor.”

He gives one condition. Work ethic has to rise, and the small dishonesties — the do-numbriyaan — have to fall. If those two move, he says, the thirty-year picture is genuinely good. By the end of the conversation, Muzamil closes at the fifty-two-minute mark, gestures at his sister podcast The Pakistan Pivot, and signs off. The argument Fahad leaves behind is simpler than the revenue figure in the title. Build the mind. Give first. Define success in a way that survives the cheque.

Full transcript
Muzamil

नमस्कार में सबातियां से कर रहे episode of Thought Behind. Things that are amazing मौजूद हैं. एक बहुत ही ख़ासी man who is a Pakistani born Canadian entrepreneur. He's the CEO of, Canadian Canada Prime Marketing, which is Canada's fastest growing company in twenty seventeen, eighteen nineteen with the fastest growing tea. It's been featured in a bunch of different magazines. We're gonna talk all about that as well. Faat Khans, thank you so much for being part of the show. Thank you so much for inviting me. Appreciate it. So, Faat, just tell me a little bit about, you know, I mean, have you been in Canada forever?

Guest

Yeah, Amy Great Kiazl? Nein, nein. I was born in Pakistan, so very young age. 2000, We moved to Canada, or now it's been more than twenty one years. So I've been in Canada for more than twenty one years. Right.

Muzamil

How did you sort of get into this whole,

Guest

you know... And and just to understand, your company primarily does marketing? DG. What do you guys Mainly marketing. So, prime business has always been marketing and now due to COVID and everything we diversify in different businesses. लेकिन main business पहले हमेशा COVID marketing का ही रहा है. Right. So how do you get into all of this? तो लंबी कहानी है basically जब Canada Canada निकले तो अंग्रेज़ी तो इतनी अच्छी थी नहीं. Mhmm. तो when you're new, it's a cultural shock, especially जब high school शुरू करना है. तो high school is, like, age age of 14 के आस पास. तो you go to to school, थोड़ा सा वो अंदर से लगता था लेकिन लेकिन at the same time one of my friends friend की M. M.E. काम करती थी marketing की job, credit cards बेचती थी इन malls और trade show में जा रहे रुक के यार credit card ले लो ये वो. मैंने कहा अच्छा काम है यार कभी उनके पास उनके पास बंदा कम पड़ गया. तो मैंने कहा यार maybe डाल दे किसी तरीके से. By that time I was age of 16. तो आइस था आइस था we got into that job. Usually you have to be over 18. लेकिन किसी ने मौका दिया. It's a long journey after that too. मेरी हमेशा ना अम्मी was in sales. Pakistan में भी जब थी उन्होंने time share से लेकर she's been very involved into marketing and that. और हमेशा उन्होंने यह कहा था यार मेरा एक बच्चा जो है ना उसको business अपना करना है. तो सबसे छोटा मैं था. बाकी दोनों तो engineer वन गए जब मेरी बारी आई तो मैंने कहा शुक्रा बच गए हम. Right. तो then I started the journey into selling. फिर जब high school ख़त्म हुआ आपका तो I started going into post secondary. It wasn't where I really wanted to be. काफ़ी companies में काम किया and I was selling mostly credit cards. चार से पांच साल में credit card ही बेचता रहा और as the minimum wage वहां पर जो minimum पैसा बनाते थे, I think it was $5.90 at that time. Sales के करीबे before I started my own business एक company में मैंने काम किया एक हमारा project था 10 का festival था तो उसने हमें booth लगा के दिया कहता है ten days में हमारे ये targets हैं ये लाना है. तो मेरा उस वक़्त दस दिन में ग्यारह हज़ार dollar बनना था. अच्छा. तो जो मेरा commission मेरा जो हालाल की कमाई थी जो मैंने sales submit की उसमें मेरा ग्यारह हज़ार का था. तो मुझे paycheck आया नौ नौ सौ अस्सी dollar का कुछ था $10,000 के आस पास मुझे payout नहीं हुआ. Booth पर मैं खड़ा हूं. आप मेरे साथ खड़े हो. बंदा आया, मैंने कोई customer बना तो नहीं लिया ना? हाँ. आपके सामने sign up की उसकी ID भी ली. लेकिन उस वक़्त नहीं पता था इतना. तो basically सारी sales का ख़ुद खा गए. Unfortunately things happen. लेकिन हमेशा यही होता पहली बार नहीं हुआ कई companies ने मेरे पैसे pay नहीं किए. Right. और अंदर से because that's what you work hard for. तो वह एक ना जो लगातारा वह छुरा अंदर लगा मेरे का नहीं होना enough of this और और उसको तब मैं marketing भी पढ़ाता है तो I have a only two year marketing diploma तो. अच्छा, you didn't do your like full year undergrad? नहीं नहीं. वह इतने like नहीं थे हम. तभी कह रहा है बच्चे engineering नहीं पढ़ने पड़ी. Right. तो I was an average student. Never A plus एक A plus आया था. वह भी हमारा मुझे याद organizational behavior में था और open book exam था. Right. तो अपने notes हो तो A plus आ जाएगा. वैसे हम Bs and C students. लेकिन जब वहां से graduate हुए तो फिर यह मैंने जो कहा हुआ था कि एक बेटा मेरा marketing भी होना चाहिए. तो फिर मैं मौका भी अच्छा था. मैंने कहा let's start our own company in 2009. तो start किया. अच्छा, this is the peak of financial crisis? Yes, 2009 में start किया and at that time छोटे मोटे contracts उठा रहे थे. एक वह तो concept था कि अगर आप गाड़ी खरीदते हो तो आपको free trip मिलेगा. तो we used to pre buy the trips and cars की company जो होती थी incentive करते हैं कि आप आ जाते हो. Certificates कहते थे एक trip certificates. तो एक project पे telecom की company थी. इनके साथ मैं काम कर रहा था. उनका project पे मैंने pilot किया. तब क्या हो रहा था? वहाँ पे new technologies launch हो रही थीं for fiber optics. Fiber optics नहीं लगने लगे. Fiber के base का TV लगना था. तो जब उधर थे तो उन्होंने opportunity भी दी. तो basically journey आसान नहीं था तब भी. तब भी हमें जाकर door to door selling करनी थी. पहला project था door to door. तो यहां पर अगर Pakistan में किसी को कहे भाई यह दरवाज़े खड़काने हैं. इधर से इधर जाना है. बेचना है. तो कहेगा यार क्या loser वाली job है? अच्छा इस company के लिए कह रहा ना करियो. बड़ा बदनाम है वह company. And they've, they've, there's only two big giants. जैसा यहां पर आपके देख रहे हैं टेलनार हो गया, jazz हो गया, u phone हो गया. उनके ये तीन giants हैं. So it was one of them. तो मैंने कहा यार और एक, एक तो कहता है Class अच्छी खासी लग जाती है तो minus 40 हुआ फिर. जो extreme temperatures हैं. Minus 40 आपके शायद याचीन के आस पास के areas में हो. उधर भी एक घर से दूसरे घर जाकर telecom के products बेचे. तो मेरी जो अपनी ज़िंदगी का सबसे we actually find a way to fight back. Most of us, we don't fight back. तो मेरा हमेशा ऐसा ज़िंदगी का यह रहा है. मेरा अपना भी अब जो मैं youth empowerment पर काम करूं तो हमेशा कहता I'm unstoppable. कि यार मुश्किलात आएंगी लेकिन उनको handle कैसे करना है? Mhmm. So ये तो रह गया थोड़ा सा किस तरह start किया आपने? Just to before we move forward आप Pakistan में कौन से शहर से गए थे? यार मैं बौल्लहौर में हूँ वैसे मैं छोटे शहर में था रेमिया खान जहा पर फौजी fertilizer का plant है my dad was a engineers तो he was there. हम लोगों ने colony में ही गोठमाची में time ज़्यादा लगाया. सात्काबाद के पास. तो वहां पर मेरा ज़्यादा time गुज़रों से पहले exon में थे बू. तो I was very little at that time लेकिन mostly grade one kindergarten से लेकर grade six, seven तक में उतर था. पर I think, छह, सात, आठ या O levels में या LGS में और बेकना उस पर गुज़रा. अच्छा. And then O levels के font बाद you actually went to नहीं, O levels का final जो होता है जिसमें तीन साल का आता है ना, final वह लिखना था वह था तो हम Canada निकलकर बचकर. अच्छा. अगर वह इधर रहते हैं तो जो लाखों dollar charge करते हैं सिखाने के लिए, उनसे जाकर सीखा. Because that gives me more leverage. Right. तो यही बस Organized learning generally उस तरह की आप mainly. You never preferred.

Muzamil

So, you started this company and it's been what, twelve years? Twelve years now. Has the has it... I mean, since you started it,

Guest

like, simple incremental growth? Were were there times where you were like, hey, listen. Like, maybe it's a stupid decision to actually do your own thing and just, like नहीं, नहीं. Never regretted the decision. I think it was the best thing. तो उस वक़्त ज़िंदगी में it was a must for me to do it क्योंकि कुछ करना था. और that's why we went and built that business. तो growth पहले तीन चार साल कम थी उसके बाद then we started figuring out what we need to do. कुछ projects ऐसे थे clients के जिसकी वजह से हमें exponentially growth भी मिली और वहां पर उन्होंने हमें test भी किया और जब भी वही आता कि companies जब test आपको करती है if you deliver, they want to keep you. Right. ठीक है? इतनी बड़ी company के लिए replace करना बहुत आसान होता है.

Muzamil

बड़ा important है, right? Because a lot of times Pakistan में क्या हुआ globally भी. You know, the reason why I'm saying this is because, you know, you're mentioning the success story of a company and you're talking about, you know, making upward of revenue or what. However, you're talking about making an upward of $70.80, $90,000,000. And I know there's a kid out out there listening to us, and he's thinking कि यार पता नहीं मैं अपनी ज़िंदगी के साथ क्या कर हूं? मैं भी आज कुछ छोडूंगा और छह महीने बाद मेरे भी इतने पैसे वन जाएंगे. I feel like one of the biggest things that this generation particularly lacks is patience. My generation lacked it as well. Absolutely. But overall,

Guest

you know, you have this social media की वजह से constantly you're around so much of this noise which tells you this guy left his job and six months later he's a billionaire कि आपके लोप साहिले expectations हैं. And so that's why I want to talk about the कि ठीक है मतलब आपके आपके downs भी आए होंगे but it's just that you had to have that well कि यार listen like this is what I am doing. I have decided I am gonna do this. तो मैं यही करूंगा. I don't really care कि इसमें मुझे कितने ज़्यादा मुश्किलात आ रही है. And eventually took you what seven years before you were able to really sort of show that success story. बिल्कुल यह जो आप बात कर रहे ना आज मैं early एक university में ही था. वहां पर भी बात कर रहे थे about innovation, business. तो वहां पर भी पुछा यार हमारे ideas हम काम करते हैं. अगर ideas जब हमने काम किया, loopholes मिले कि नहीं चला business, what do we do? मैंने कहा यार सबसे बड़ा जो problem है ना वही जो आप देखा बाद की patience. We are living in a world of instant gratification now. हर चीज़ हमारे button पर है. हमारी दुनिया ऊपर नीचे left right स्था चल रही सिर्फ. And that's what the problem is with Gen Z and even our age group like millennials में भी. That हमें हर चीज़ अभी now हाथ में चाहिए. खाना चाहिए तो button दबाव आ जाएगा खाना. ठीक है? आपने Facebook पर अब Facebook क्या कह रहा है या Instagram all the social media it is changing the whole definition of success. अब अंदर Lamborghini के सामने करोगे तस्वीरों तो आ रहा तो कहेगा जी best successful हो. आपने मेरे साथ तस्वीर लिया मैंने आपके साथ लिए social media में लगा दिया है यार वो देखो उसके साथ उसने photo लगाई है. And even the same thing I am talking we are living in a world of significance stop living the life with significance यार फ़र्क़ नहीं पड़ता. जो success की हम बात कर रहे हैं, हर कोई कहता है oh, you're successful. I'm like, what do you mean? मैंने कहा, what is your definition of success? सिर्फ़ पैसा तो नहीं है. अगर पैसा मेरी definition सिर्फ़ success को होता है, wouldn't be here. तो मेरे एक mentor थे हमेशा वह एक चीज़ कहते हैं, कहते हैं success without fulfillment is an ultimate failure. अगर वहां नी से कून ही नहीं है तो किए फ़ायदा. तो यार ups and downs आऐंगे. एक चीज़ खेलाती है grit factor, g r I t. इसके ऊपर TED TED talks भी है. I forgot the name of a lady but she talks about grit. कि how perseverance are you towards your goal? एक महीने में लोग हम तीन महीने try करेंगे चल कुछ नहीं हुआ नौकरी कर लें. मुझे लोग पूछते हैं फाद भाई यार हम should we go for entrepreneurship or should we go for a job? मैं अब university के देख रहा था the big one कहता आप तो entrepreneur है आप तो कहेंगे entrepreneur बनना चाहिए मैंने कहा नहीं 98% people shouldn't लेकिन ना तो वो दस गेंटे लगा सकते ना वो minus 20 में बाहर जाने के लिए ready हैं अपना bag उठाना पड़ जाए वो नहीं करना तीन, एक झटका लगेगा. उन्होंने कहना चल यार भाग. Because it's not fair. It takes a certain breed of people who's gonna make it. You have to build that mind and you are not born with it but you built it. लेकिन हमारा जो whole over our culture हमें failure सिखाई नहीं जाती. Actually, I'm talking to kids now जो काफ़ी young हैं, even my nieces and nephews too. कहते यार, we should ask them more. It's ok to fail. यहां पर मैं failing के ऊपर दिखाते नहीं दिखाते. Number one आना है जीतना है. जब आप real world में आए हो after your university You're going to be failing. For longest time, then I can. आप handle कैसे करना आपको यह नहीं पता? तो यह चीज़ अगर बचपन से ही सिखा दीजिए, it's ok to fail as long as you learn from it. What's wrong? Just keep on doing. हमारा यह बहुत ज़्यादा cultural effect भी है. लेकिन मेहनत तो अर्ज़ गया यार. Canada, Pakistan,

Muzamil

आप Australia, जहां पर भी चले जाओ. Absolutely and recently I had a I had a Youtuber, you know, on the podcast as well. He's from Australia और वहां पर जो है he was talking about how, But उसी के साथ साथ like you mentioned, you know, in your case it was minus 41 degree. Pakistan में बहुत, मैं तो कभी भी नहीं survive करती. सच्ची बात है you know, if I had to move somewhere, Canada would be the last place or even Western Europe just because of the weather, you know, cold weather. I can't deal with cold weather उस तरह से. तो Pakistan में you know, we have this sort of weird idea of officer वाली नौकरी कौन सी है? Worker वाली नौकरी कौन सी है? क्या हमने करना है? क्या हमने नहीं करना? That really shops अभी पिछले दिनों हमारी बात हो रही थी. We were talking about this kid जिसने जो पिछले दो साल से job less है. And he, you know, every time he would get a call from someplace तो वह यह बोलता था कि यार नहीं यह तो this is not the job that I want to do. You know, he's waiting for this perfect job that may never come. Sense of entitlement.

Guest

That's the problem. मैं यह कभी भी नहीं बोलूंगा. मुझे लोग cancel कर देंगे but It please expand on is. Yeah, देखो हम ना यह छोटी जवाब है वह है. इस mindset से जब तक निकलेंगे नहीं ना, कभी फ़र्क़ नहीं पड़ेगा. मैं आपको example देता हूं यहां पर. मैं जब नया नया यहां पर Pakistan आना शुरू हुआ पिछले तीन साल पहले. तो I was sitting in an office, one of my friend उसका office था तो उसका चाय वाला था लड़का and he is in a real estate business. तो चाय वाला नहीं dress अच्छा था लेकिन उसको ना अच्छा लड़का था. मैंने कहा इनको ना train करो, इनको groom करो. यह आपकी जो है ना जो आपके clients भी आते हैं, they see him. तो इसको थोड़ा सा ना ज़रा presentation इसकी बेहतर करो. आगे से अब भाई साहब जवाब क्या दे दो जो यहां पर भी वह ज़्यादा दे रहे हैं. यार इनको ना इनकी औकात पर रखो. इनको थोड़ा सा हमने किया तो यह सिर पर चढ़ जाएंगे. एक तो हो गई यह site वह मैं तो सीधा कहूंगी you're screwed already. Mhmm. ठीक है? अगर यहां पर सोचोगे मुझे ख़ुद यार अपना business start किया है. मैं कहता हूं मैं ultimate janitor. मैं शायद उसको यह किताब भी देख दूंगा ultimate janitor janitor के ऊपर. झाड़ू भी ख़ुद लगाना है. Mhmm. ठीक है? कमरा भी अपना साफ़ ख़ुद किया हमने. Washroom भी साफ़ किए. पहला office हमारा था कोई कितना होगा यार? यह table जितनी इसमें हमारी इस table जितना हमारा पहला office था. चालीस हज़ार square feet का furniture store था, अपनी aunty का था. उन्होंने कहा यार बेटा इधर रख लो अपना office. हमने वहां से client उठाया. अब अगर हमारा पांच हज़ार square feet का top floor पर office, head office जो हमारा है अब अलग अलग बहुत अच्छा है. लेकिन वो सारे dirty work you have to do. Team को जैसा मैंने कहा team को उठाना भी, उनको train करना, उनको लेकर जाना, उनको घर उतारना, driver की भी नौकरी की. So you have to. अगर आपको success चाहिए या तो आप किसी अच्छी family में पैदा जाओ, ठीक है? वह एक आपके पास option है या तो you have to work really hard towards it wherever you are. और मैं आज भी बात कर रहा था, go out and start building network of people where you can serve them. Give them first before you want to take anything back.

Muzamil

अच्छा, this is very very important because आपने पहली चीज़ बोली network की, अंदर a lot of people in Pakistan who talk about network but they don't really tell them how to build that network, right? जो आपने दूसरी चीज़ बोली वह आपने essentially बोली, build a relationship. We we talk about network. हमें लगता है हम Facebook पर जाकर ad as a friend करेंगे, that's a network. Network और relationship में फ़र्क़ यह है कि relationship में आप कोई value exchange कर रहे होते हैं one way or the other, right? And and once that value is exchanged that's where the other person begins to have trust and so you're able to then get something out of it. Expand a little bit on that क्या आपने जो बोला कि you know, you you do something for them first and then चलिए, इस पर भी मैं आपको थोड़ा सा देखता हूं. पहली जो तीन चीज़ें करना छोड़ दें लोग. Message भेजते हैं.

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Hello, how are you? HRU. एक तो यह text message बड़ी गुस्सा चढ़ता है. फिर G R 8 and NYC. यार, या तो nice लगता है NYC करके लिखना. हम तो New York City समझते हैं. New York City से बंद है. NYC को ही लगता तो मेरे लगता New York City इसके भी refer कर रहा है. But if you really want to connect with somebody, मैं हमेशा कहता हूं देखो, many times I go reach out people, we were very huge. Like, उनको यह नहीं कहूंगा, hello, how are you, sir? अगर आप Facebook या LinkedIn पर भी किसी को कर रहे हो, make sure it's very well targeted. लोग hi का message reply नहीं करेंगे. Mhmm. उसको अगर मैंने कहा भी कहा भी यार brother, I met you at this podcast or this event. We had a great discussion about this this this. I'm really inspired by what you did. And you know what? I think I can connect with you and maybe you can guide guide me on this this this. जो भी चीज़ है आप अपना पूरा agenda, जो भी आप चाह रहे हो वो लिख दो. Chances are I will respond to that person कि आप क्या कर रहे हो और अब बात आके कि you give first. मैं marketing के business में हूँ and I have been sitting a lot in clubhouse too लोग हमारे थे clubhouse में आओ यार और पाकिस्तानी अगर हैं तो they should go on clubhouse. You can connect to the international people and learn from them directly without paying anything. तो marketing का था यार. I met few good friends. There was a very old lady. वह मुझे कहती है यार मैं marketing नहीं कर रही हूं. She loves me what I do. तो मेरा बंदा वैसी बेला बैठा था. ठीक है ना? मैंने कहा उसको use किया. But I gave something to her first. Mhmm. वह बंदा client वन गया आपका. Mhmm mhmm. एक ने उसने दस चीज़ें और खोल दी. तो that's where you give without expectation to receive. इसके ऊपर अगर मैं आपको example दूं, जो biggest चीज़ ever happened for me. True story, जैसा मैंने कहा मैंने like student था. ठीक है? I was an average student. जब business settle हो गया थोड़ा, मुझे दो दो मुझे किसी ने कहा यार आप networking events पर जाओ. और उसी वक्त मुझे कुछ class का याद नहीं था. वो कहानी click कर गई. She used to say, वो हमें branding की class प्राती है power of brands. उसने कहा यार? मैंने कहा hey, Theresa if I knew you would be here, I would have got you coffee. Starbucks, कैसी why? I remember. You're a big fan of Starbucks coffee because you said in a class people are so loyal that you said you would drive fifteen minutes away off your route to pick that coffee. Kiti, you remember? Our connection joa abad, kiti, we immediately connected. Sales team को भी बताया power of thank you note. Handwritten thank you notes. तो मैंने क्या किया मैं उधर ही mall में था साथ ही university पुरानी में जाना पड़ा हूँ college. तो सामने card की shop थी card लिया. Starbucks का मैंने gift card भी डाला. मैंने कहा यार teacher को drop off कराता हूँ. तो I wrote a thank you note and I left it there. Without anything, यह नहीं था मेरा कोई agenda था. हां. अगले दिन वह मुझे Twitter पर, Instagram पर tag करिए, oh, student did this for me and thank you note लिखा. And that one small thing led to what? Later, I received a phone call few-few months after. We are calling from your, college जहां पर आप पढ़े हैं, from Nate, and we want to consider you as a brand ambassador. मैंने कहा, इनको पैसे चाहिए. तो मैंने पुछा, transforming vision into venture. उन्होंने उसे अपनी university का logo लगाया हुआ. We just transform vision into venture, was one of my lines. They used that and they ran over a half $1,000,000 marketing campaign for eight months. मेरा चेहरा लगाकर, मेरा नाम लगाकर. लेकिन वह कैसे हुआ? All you did is something good without expectation to receive. तो ज़िंदगी में मैं हमेशा कहता कि if I'm doing something for somebody, I'll just do it because it was the right thing to do. People will feel it. Yeah. Especially, when they उस level पर पहुंच गए, they can sense those energies. Yeah. तो again, give without expectation to receive. It will help a lot. 100%, 100%. So these days you're in Pakistan. What's that all about? Yeah, mainly कुछ conferences भी थीं. My biggest vision is to inspire millions of youth in Pakistan. तो जो चीज़ें हमने अपने business में सीखी, life में सीखी. One of my mentors been Tony Robbins, तो मैं very blessed that he trained me a lot. सोलह events उनके साथ भी किया and I'm one of his platinum partner. तो मैं हमेशा यही कहता हूं कि he's one of the best in his industry when it comes to life and business coaching. लेकिन हर कोई बंदा उनको afford नहीं कर सकता. Right. And then Brian Tracy आपकी best company भी देने के लिए तैयार नहीं है. Then at the same time I saw we were doing an interview for somebody. He was one of the top graduate. Islamabad में for one of the best universities. लेकिन वह personal उसकी development ही नहीं हुई थी. बंदा he was like sitting in the interview. Hello sir, how are you? I am the top. मैंने कहा यार energy किधर है भाई? कोई होता ना कि एक personality चाहिए हमें. Sales का बंदा चाहिए. तुम business के graduate हो but they didn't have that. मैंने कहा why don't we work on this? And at the same time जो मैंने पहले कहा कि यार, I was with my mentor, Tony Robbins, he started talking about life, what you want to do? Success without fulfillment is failure. मैंने कहा यार, financially we find ourselves successful, लेकिन something is missing. Mhmm. तो वह उधर ही मैंने अपनी mission life statement लिखी थी. I was in Australia with him. And on my birthday I remember he asked me a question, what is life? अब हर किसी से पुछा, and what's the frustrated response? I wrote life, it's a gift. तो फ़ैर, किसी ने somebody loved us enough to be for that's what we hear. It's a miracle, it's universe sent us here, जो भी हमारी belief है. And later he asked another question, what is your purpose of existence? What are you here to create? Leave behind. मैं कही यार, you know what? Giving के ऊपर मेरा मेरा अब काफ़ी था. तो that's why we do it once in a year. मैंने कहा, why can't we create that as a lifestyle? Mhmm. तो I wrote that my mission life statement, हम business की लिखते हैं, लेकिन अपनी ज़िंदगी की नहीं लिखते. Mhmm. So I combined them together, Life is a gift and giving is our lifestyle. That one line changed the whole way I see things here. So now the whole is giving. Giving is not only helping people with hungry people or किसी को पैसे donate कर दे. For me, giving is also the knowledge. Help somebody who has given up on life. If ज़िंदगी में एक बंदे को ज़िंदा रहने के लिए या अगले level पर लेकर जाने के लिए कुछ कर सकते हैं. I think there's nothing more fulfilling. जब एक की मदद करोगे ना, तो फिर दूसरे के बाद नशा चढ़ जाता कहते करते ही रहो अब. So that's what we let you and that's what we one of my whole thing is, that's why I'm in Pakistan. Not only through the conferences, I do my own events too. Inshallah, we are planning something big under one of our brand which is we just gonna launch. Publicly, this this is the first place where I'll be saying, तो हमारा जो अपनी organization है, उसका unstoppable Pakistan के नाम से. We'll do our major events. Very cool. You you talked about personal development. Mhmm. He said, you know, and that's very true. For most people,

Muzamil

जब every time I have to hire someone and we open up CVs, it's it's it's it's something, you know? It's, आपका CV होगा, उसके बाद तो श्रीलगियोगी, उस पर लिखा होगा I am Muslim, Sunni. Age. Agent. बाबा का नाम. So much irrelevant information that that shouldn't be there. उसके अंदर hobbies का panel जो है वह तीन paragraphs का होगा for no reason at all. I mean so एक तो आपकी personality development, you know, बस हम technical technical technical technical पर लगे रहो. Ethics work, ethics, professional ethics, उनका कोई concept नहीं है. I I think one of the biggest problems, and I hired someone as well, you know, not too long ago और वह यही था कि, you he was hugely successful in the freelancing industry. But he just doesn't know how to work in a team, you know? And and and that's a growing problem कि Pakistan में we're so used to जुगाड़ and हर चीज़ बस मुकाओ आगे जाओ. Solopreneur बहुत है. Solopreneurs बहुत हैं और और और उसका मसला you know, that's fine, that's great. Freelancers are bringing a lot of dollars. The fact is you can't scale, like you said, they could be only 2% entrepreneurs because it's a lifestyle. अगर आप अभी कर भी रहे हो ना जवानी का कुछ जोश चढ़ा हुआ है तो burn out हो जाओगे और eventually आप छोड़ दोगे. But अगर आप पूरी जवानी गुज़ार दोगे without learning the art of working with people, working in teams, building something bigger than yourself. It's not just मैं कर रहा हूं, मैं dollar कमा रहा और मेरे पास इतना पैसा रहा है. It's not a zero sum के मुस्ताना से. If you're doing something with a purpose and a passion, it's that's where you can actually create bigger visions. Unfortunately, we're not doing that in Pakistan. A lot of that language or conversation that that that that's that exists is individual. Why do you work for someone? Go do your own thing. Become a millionaire. Become a lot get a lot of money, and that's good. Money. But that shouldn't be your life goal. So in that context, how do you see or rather what can be done in Pakistan to solve this problem? Because universities aren't doing it. Particularly, अगर आप IT tech, आप आप आप ख़ुद भी offices खोल रहे हैं, ज़ाहिर है most of your clients are in The US. You need that personality, you need that sort of globalized personality that can actually reach out to individuals and people sitting in the West. देखिए government पर हम rely नहीं कर सकते. हम सारा दिन बैठकर complain तो कर सकते हैं. यह problem है, वह problem है.

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अगर इतनी problems यहाँ तो होता जाके solve करो और don't talk about it. Specially when you are outside. तो आपने जो बात की personal development की, gaps हैं. सबसे बड़ी problem है energy level ही नहीं हमारा. अभी यह जो मैं बैठा हूँ यहाँ पे मेरा पिछले दो दिन से अच्छा ख़स्सा, I get to be here. ठीक है? अगर मैं किसी को serve करण फैक को and help out people, it's my choice. And usually, I lose money. मैं दो लाख dollar से ज़्यादा लगा चुका हूं into helping other people so they get better. यहां पर तो यह अलग university से आप बात करेंगे यार, हम youth empowerment करें, हमें कितने पैसे देंगे? मैंने कहा वाह. अच्छा पैसे दे भी थे. मैंने कहा चलो यार हम पहला launch करें ठीक है. काम करें. हमारी faculty के staff members के लिए खाना भी कर दें. मैंने कहा वाह यार मैंने कहा कर दो. It's ok. अब we didn't have much time. Let's just do it किया यार. अपना event करना है. वहां पर भी हमारी पांच हज़ार dollar या आठ हज़ार dollar cost लगने. Let's do it because this is our marketing tool. लेकिन somebody has to step up and do it. And one thing मैं एक अगर message कोई लेना चाहता है ना, हमारी state के ऊपर मैं बहुत बात करता हूं. Fight to my event. I'm a very much similar personality as Tony Robbins too क्योंकि मैं मैं हम disanalysis कर लें, जो भी कर लें. It's very much similar. I'm a high energy guy. हमारे यहां पर क्या event भी होगा? अस्सलामालिकम खावती नज़रात. आज मैं आपको motivate करूंगा. वह एक ही monotone में आके जी बात करके चल गया. अच्छी इस्लामी बात करती है, अच्छी बात करती है. But nobody is teaching the real how you shift people. ठीक है? अच्छी बात करना is temporary. आमार not after motivation, आमार after transformation. Who you become in this journey? How do we alter somebody's values या beliefs को कैसे करना है? इसमें मुझे अभी तक बंदा नहीं मिला यार. मैं कहता यार आप अच्छी बात करके चले गए, impact किधर है? तो किसी को कुछ करना पड़ेगा. Either I'm I'm not going to count on others. It's in my control, it's my passion. I think I can be, maybe a disruptor in this industry. And the reason I do it is not only यह आप youth को empower करें. कल को मुझे पता है जो youth हैं, we have the largest population in the world for youth, ठीक है? Seventy या 65% 35. कोई 60 कहता है, कोई 75 कहता whatever the number is. But we have a majority of youth 35. मेरे पास ideas बहुत हैं. I'm very well connected to the international world. You are very well connected too. What if there is a person who can connect these people? लेकिन उनको कराकर जायजो इस काबिल तो होना at least. तो my whole thing is when we go with all these ideas, there will be some good people who have some brilliant ideas. Like, a medical computer, but I'm not a software guy. I'm not a tech guy. I understand technology, but what if we start empowering, connecting them together? There could be another business. Maybe I'll just invest into somebody's business and have, like, twenty, thirty small businesses on the side, and you just coach them.

Muzamil

तो somebody has to take a step, and that's what my whole thing is. Continue doing. अगर कुछ बनता है तो कुछ नहीं बनता है ठीक है यार. बाकी businesses तो चल रही है ना? हां. So you you obviously you you came to Pakistan. You must have seen some sort of number, some sort of... You must have seen something out here. What's your opinion on on Pakistan today as of, you know, 2021? What does it look like? What does it feel like? You know, you went in 2001

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or 2000? February में, इक्कीस साल. इक्कीस साल. So how do you see Pakistan as of right now? यार, मैं बेवकूफ तो नहीं वापस आ रहा हूं. Mhmm. Time लगा रहा हूं. Business उधर भी है. One thing I see is, I do have a love for the country, and I do have a passion to inspire people. यहां पर सबसे बड़ी disruption Pakistan में आएगी. अब यह controversial हो जाएगा जो मैं कहूंगा. लोग कहते हैं COVID से unfortunate काफ़ी लोग भी हैं. हमारे फौत हुए काफ़ी लोग, they are not longer in world. Pakistan को इतना damage नहीं हुआ as compared to the rest of the world. लेकिन indirectly Pakistan के लिए सबसे बड़ा फ़ायदा भी हुआ. हमारी freelancing की market third number पर आ गई. People पूरी दुनिया जो offices में काम करी थी, they started work from home. A lot of पाकिस्तानी Indian, Sri Lankans and all these countries started taking a lot of work away. तो opportunity भी उसी के हिसाब से आ रही है. Now a lot of countries like US, Canada, Australia, first world nations जो कहते हैं हम, they are actually looking for realize already दो साल में यार हम work from home हो सकता है तो work from out of country क्यों नहीं हो सकता? Same चीज़ ही है ना? तो opportunities भी हैं. तो Pakistan का future क्या है? जिस नाम से हमने organization की है unstoppable है. Unstoppable Pakistan. और उस कहां से बनेगा? ये जो हमारे यार youth हैं. ये जो TikTok पे सारे बैठे हुए उनको थोड़ा सा बस alternation

Muzamil

KFC का है ना? हां, हमारा KFC का है हमारा. Was talking to US ambassador yesterday and he was talking, he was telling me about the Bank of America and he was like most of the senior leadership of Bank of America is पाकिस्तानी. We don't know a lot of these. There's another guy recently who I found out. राहिब, I believe his name was, not sure. But he sold a 6,000,000,000 company in The US, you know, very recently. Very very big name. नाम है, ठीक है? Mainstream के नहीं है but नाम है. The fact is definitely India आपसे आगे है, but India आपसे आगे क्योंकि India अपने overseas को तो वह बड़ा important है कि अगर आपका बंदा बाहर चला भी जाता है, it's not something, it's not a bad thing. You have way too many people in life. नहीं नहीं, वह लोग हैं जिनको ना हर चीज़ में क़ीड़ा निकालने का शौक है. बुराई, what's wrong? मैं हमेशा कहता what's wrong is out there? हमेशा

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से ज़्यादा remittance आ रही है. Exactly और ये हम कहते हैं यार हमारा क्या 22,000,000,000 export है शिवशा शायद not that much लेकिन अब मैं वही कहूं जो मेरा client है उनका चौदह billion dollar revenue है. एक company का यार हम लोग

Muzamil

हम देर लगे हुए लगे रहेंगे तभी कहते हैं unstoppable है लगे रहो भाई. अच्छा another problem that generally I find क्योंकि मैं I spoke to someone else on the podcast about this as well and I feel like you know we we are talking a lot about in Pakistan. We're talking about empowering the youth. We are talking about you know giving them a sense of direction or rather we are talking about giving them a sense of motivation कि यार कुछ करो, कुछ करना, opportunity exist करती है. बहुत सारे लोग exist करते हैं. बहुत सारी industries में exist करते हैं. Freelancing में, tech में, business में. दिखाना एक बात होती है कि यार देखो वह चीज़ भी तो हो रही है why don't you do that? और एक चीज़ होती है कि step by step आप जाते हो और आप जाकर एक sort of एक factory बना देते हो जिसके अंदर you can input individuals and you can output productivity. That I feel like is something that has been missing for most part. इसकी छोटी सी मिसाल मैं आपको इस तरह देता हूं. According to one study by the government of Pakistan, seventy eight percent of all IT graduates in Pakistan are non employable. अच्छा. Study by Pakistan private privately by Pakistan Software Association increases that number by over 85%. Right? So 100 में से पचासी बच्चा जो है वह चार साल की degree लेकर फारक बैठेगा throw करना था,

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वह दरमियान में layer बहुत आता missing. What do you think about that and how do you think that could potentially be suitable? यार, बहुत अजीबी conference ही होनी थी जिसकी वजह से मैं आया था और वह बेचारे में OIC की वजह से cancel हो गई. Reschedule cancel तो नहीं हुई. But they actually, part of that is to fill this gap कि हम जो बच्चे graduate हो रहे हैं, वह जो machine हम बनाकर बच्चों की भेज रहे हैं, वह उसकी they are not compatible with what जो एक employer को चीज़ जैसे आप भी hire करो यार कहते हैं क्या मैं करूं? तो येर either हमारी हम इसमें आपका problem is the government is very strong body जो इसको control करती है. उन्हीं को identify करना पड़ेगा यार हमें we need to have up some proper personal development things कि कितना लोगों को किया जाए ताकि वो ready हों. लेकिन नहीं है. दुनिया में भी incubation से बहुत कम आए हैं. आपको यार एक environment create करना है. Incubation भी आ गए तो शश्कों के लिए चल गया, ओ जी हमारा business, हमारा startup incubation में आ गया. नहीं I was so, I spoke to this,

Muzamil

one of the incubators का program manager थे or something of that sort. Sounds like I said the same thing. I said, listen, I've I've been coming here for almost for five, six years and, I feel like कि ठीक है, you know, आप लोग जो भी कर रहे हैं, I don't know how the money flows, I don't know कि success वग़ैरह. मैं उसके ऊपर नहीं comment करूंगा कि आप लोग पैसा government का लगा रहे हैं जिसका भी लगा रहे हैं. But outcome के ऊपर I have some deep thoughts on on on, you know, this outcome, this thing that you've been selling which way कि Pakistan is the land of opportunity and and you were selling the right thing except you were just not the answer for it because, उनका जवाब उन्होंने मुझे ये दिया उन्होंने कहा कि यार देखिए हम हमारा मुख़्तलिफ़ different है gauge करने का तरीक़ा. मैंने कहा जी क्या है? उन्होंने कहा जी वैसे तो हमारा 97% of all the startups who come to us generally by the end of the cycle they're not doing any work anymore they get a job. ठीक है? 3% जो है वह करते रहते हैं और उसमें से भी generally उनकी life cycle बड़ा छोटा है. वह छह महीने या एक डेढ़ साल के बाद नहीं कर पाते. मैंने कहा जी तो इसमें success क्या है? इनको छह छह महीने के courses कराओ और इनको आप जाकर नौकरी के लिए ready करो like this is your money. हमें चाहिए लोग नौकरी के लिए भी. हाँ you're giving the wrong solution to the right problem.

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वो bucket system है ना ये असल में खुनम भाई is a very good friend he goes to universities and talk about the same. कहता है यार तीन buckets बनाती हैं. एक bucket जो है जिसने बाहर जाना है. हां. उसे ना जाने जाना है जो कि topper आपका वो top one percent and one nest का, lumps का, जिसका उन्होंने जाना उनको जाना है. यह final year का project करना है. वह जो numbers देने के लिए project कर रहे Why don't you put them into जो कहता है कि यार मैंने पैसे बनाने हैं उसको हमने दस हज़ार रुपए दिए उसने through business activities को बीस हज़ार करो. बीस हज़ार से फिर चालीस हज़ार करो. बात बात किसी का नहीं जो कह रहे बात करने के लिए ready करता है. I don't buy that story too. बहुत कम होंगे जो बात करने के लिए भी ready होंगे. बहुत कम है. तो system में बहुत बड़े flaws हैं. तो basically या तो किसी को आकर change करना है. क्या? कहता है मालिक. Literally I'm like मैंने कहा यार यह अब mentality है. Mhmm. ठीक है? इससे निकलना पड़ेगा. यार या तो title अच्छा चाहिए या तो पैसे बना लो. Mhmm. यह मैंने decide करना है. Now people say यार फाद you are talking about money. It's not about money. It's what you do with that money. आकर आप उससे ग़लत चीज़ों पर भी लगा सकते हो or you can put in the good things too and go make more people better lives. तो वही हो गया fulfillment की तरह. तो यार incubation के topic पर जाएंगे तो यह तो ख़त्म ही नहीं होने वाला. Mhmm. यह somebody people need to go and ask कि results की तरह है यार. Mhmm. Success story की तरह है. Give me one. अगर मैं अपनी sales team की बात करता मेरे यार जो Canada में teams हैं, success story उनकी वो हैं जो अंग्रेज़ी नहीं बोल सकता था hello ok they are become good in english very confident जो अब मेरे साथ partner भी हो गए सात साल पहले आया तो उसकी अंग्रेज़ी नहीं थी आज वो तीन restaurant भी चला रहा साथ यार, मेरा mainly marketing है. तो right now in our लाहौल there's a lot of backend office. Backend office में हमारी like web development, graphic की SEO की team, सारी digital marketing की team उधर है. Now, we are opening another office for our immigration. तो immigration की जो back office उसमें हमारी customer traffic वैसे नहीं होनी थी. So, for immigration you need to have a lot different setup for the office. क्योंकि जिन्होंने अपने बच्चों को buyer बेचना है यहां. जिसने लाख dollar लगाकर buyer निकलने, you need to have certain presentation for that. तो mainly हमारे जो है एक immigration का setup है और यहां पर इस्लामाबाद में mainly not only just the, digital marketing का but mainly for immigration and also for real estate. क्योंकि मैं कुछ disruptive चीज़ों पर काम कर रही हूं. Mhmm. One on education sector, other on real estate. कोई traditional चीज़ें काफ़ी चल रही हैं. Right. They can technology को incorporate अगर किया जाए, there's a lot of things can happen. And for for for the Pakistan market? Pakistan market. तो मैं ख़ुद one of my goal is to bring millions of dollars to you. जो मेरे गोले friend हैं, जो तो उनको तो मतलब अपने पैसों से. तो I am building certain things जब मैं confident होगा तो then I'll put my assets on the line. मैं कहूं आओ let's leverage let's go together. जब एक बार उनको पता चलेगा ना return आया है. फिर सात वो दस लोग और लेकर आऐंगे. Right. तो that's one of the things I'm working. What excites you about real estate in Pakistan? Real estate, I'm not a very passionate about real estate. The reason I'm in real estate is because the return on investment is good in Pakistan. Right. Opportunity है. I'm more passionate. My main passion is youth empowerment and business coaching. That's fine. That's the idea.

Muzamil

यह real estate, real estate मैं समझना यह चाह रहा हूं कि real estate में बहुत सारी चीज़ है. Real estate में एक आपका

Guest

you know, I mean generally आप कुछ भी ना करें. आप जाएं जाकर invest करने के लिए real में. My end से आपका हो गया. आपके construction आ गई. आपकी investments कभी अब शुरू हो गई यहां पर, investment funds भी बना लिए लोगों ने. बिल्कुल. So, for me, right now, it's more like invest into certain things which will grow within three to six months or have some projects जहां पर ma'am invest करके where they say, ok, you know what, either you're a partner in there. I don't want all the headache. मुझे इतना कोई शौक नीती निटीयंगीरी में पड़ने का. There's three type of people I say. There's an artist, then there's a manager, and then there's entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial spirit that's more about I don't have a love for the product or service. All I care about it is it gonna make profit or loss. Right. Maybe this podcast could be a baby for you. Like, यार, मेरा podcast है ये मैंने तब भी नहीं छोड़ना. Then you're an artist. मेरे speaking business में I'm an artist. Yeah. I'm an entrepreneur, real, but entrepreneurial का मैं कहता हूं that's what it is for me in real estate. Opportunity wise, Pakistan has a huge shortfall of real estate right now. Real estate में रह दिया कि housing का है. Housing बहुत कम है हमारे पास. अब जो हमारे ये under the age of 35 हैं, family system से बाहर आ रहे हैं, joint families का structure आपका कम हो जा रहा they all want to start moving out. शादियां भी होंगी, बच्चे भी होंगे, घर भी लेना है. जिस space से जा रहे पता नहीं कितने लाखों घरों का shortfall है. Identify करने में. Do you think वह opportunity दादा houses में है या high rise में है? It's both sides. I might not be the best person to answer that question. मैं यही कहूंगा. Right, you're still exploring there. Exploring और opportunities बहुत हैं. मेरे पास भी हतबंदात है. कहता यह कर लो फ़ातबा, यह कर लो आप overseas पाकिस्तानी को लेओ.

Muzamil

We're at the fifty two minute mark, and I try to wrap it up in in an hour. So I'm gonna ask you the last question that I ask every guest. You're 36 year old right now, I believe. Yep. Thirty years from now, when you're when you're 66, essentially, how do you see Pakistan? Because you're you know, you're you're putting in a lot of weight into Pakistan. आपने bed भी ली हो skipper और अभी अभी at least in certain areas you're also exploring किले आपने इतनी effort तो लगाना sugar दिया, but you're also looking at, you know, putting some money in here as well. How do you see Pakistan knowing what you know now, thirty years from now? A lot of power shift gonna happen towards,

Guest

Asian countries. Again, whether वह Pakistan है, India या Bangladesh है, China है. We already know China is a very powerhouse in technology. Mhmm. And Pakistan has a huge human capital which is youth. मैं यह कहूंगा Pakistan will be very solid जो मेरा perspective है. क्यों? Because एक तो workforce भी है. हमारे पास इतने baby boomers नहीं हैं, हमारे पास Gen Z ज़्यादा है. तो they are gonna come and start taking over a lot of things. और मैं एक चीज़ ज़रूर कहता हूं जो मेरा again मैं board बहुत use करता हूं. कहता हूं unstoppable. क्यों हमने कहा unstoppable Pakistan? Because external forces आती रहेंगी. लेकिन as वह आऐंगे यार मसले हर जगह आऐंगे. लेकिन I'm pretty sure कि we will rebound always. देखो, हमारा सत्तर साल से अगर we हमने कोई इतने बड़े बड़े करना में नहीं कि लेकिन we survived and we did good. अब now we're at the point where I think there will be the breaking point where we'll be a dominant factor. शायद China की वजह से भी हो क्योंकि they are a big ally because of their CPAC and all that. Chinese भी invest करें. तो hopefully we are pretty confident कि अगर वह की technology, हमारी work capital and if we stop doing this, दो नम्रियां थोड़ी कम हो जाए और थोड़ी सी work ethics हमारी बढ़ जाए जो कि काम करने हैं लोग उस पर, तो इंशालाह it will be very good thirty years from down the road and we would be definitely a powerhouse in the world.

Muzamil

It's the thought that counts. इसी के साथ साथ, the Pakistan pivot. I'm a दूसरी podcast start की है where I interview different policymakers, government officials, people from the federal cabinet as well just to try to understand what their thought behind lot of the decisions that they make is. So you can check that out. The link is down below. But, anyways, this was Sayyim Azamelas and Zedi. You were watching thought behind things. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.