Tech, AI & the Future
Where Pakistan's tech industry is heading — the engineers, the platforms, and the AI shift.
97 episodes
Can blockchain kill Pakistan's patwari mafia?
with Ahmad Manzoor
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Badar Munir: the Shopify freelancer model is dead
with Badar Munir
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You can outsource intelligence, not understanding
with Hashim Syed
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The entry-level job is gone. Unpaid work is the way in.
with Ghalib Hassam
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Ahmad Awais: 400 million coders won't afford AI
with Ahmad Awais
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52:45 How Asad Mehmood landed Mattermost from Pakistan before A levels
with Asad Mehmood
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59:04 A 22-year-old Pakistani's road map to space by 2050
with Hassan Mossin
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1:02:55 Penetrate, don't apply: a Pakistani's path to a remote US job
with Ghalib Hassam
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1:02:56 Pakistan's startup space has become practically meaningless
with Mutaher Khan
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1:13:46 Pakistan can't build the LLM. It has to build the application layer.
with Dr. Naveed Iftikhar
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56:13 Culture eats AI for breakfast: Pakistan's real education fix
with Kamil Majeed
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The new programming language is English
with Saaid Khan
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Software Finder made money before its website existed
with Adnan & Shan
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2:26:42 AI won't take your job. Someone who uses it will.
with Ahmed Abubakar
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Pakistan's startup fund covers 30 percent of a round
with Nayab Babar
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2:13:27 Six billion dollars a year already runs through Salesflo
with Yasir Suleman Memon
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1:56:09 ALETHIA AI Founder: We Made Muzamil’s AI Avatar & Asked WHO HE’D VOTE FOR
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1:07:36 South Asia will spearhead the next era — if it learns to communicate
with Shahyan Shabbir
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1:20:42 AI will not kill jobs. It will kill the people who don't use AI
with Zeeshan Sikandar
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1:15:39 Why Shajee Aijazi left Autodesk to start a design consultancy
with Shajee Aijazi
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1:27:18 Out of 100 applicants, Ibex hires two — and that is the problem
with Yasir Rafiq
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1:10:11 Pakistani businesses are one exploit away from going to zero
with Muhammad Zayn
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1:08:20 Why NSTP is the only science park in Pakistan that actually works
with Yaruq Nadeem
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1:17:04 Why brick and mortar will never bank Pakistan's other 100 million
with Irfan Wahab Khan
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1:59:38 Faisal Aftab: the 1971 system is over, and Pakistan is mispriced
with Faisal Aftab
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1:22:10 Pakistan's IT exports won't scale on cheap labour anymore
with Ahsan Jamil
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1:44:57 How Avanceon now charges a premium for being in Pakistan
with Bakhtiar Wain
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AI will redefine what it means to be an IT worker
Listen → Banking's digital reckoning in Pakistan
with Suhail Malik
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1:57:05 Pakistan's IT growth is flatlining — and the policy is making it worse
with Syed Ahmad
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1:39:50 Pakistan does not have 240 million customers — and we made that number up
with Raza Matin
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1:32:29 Most SEO in Pakistan is quackery — and AI will expose it
with Salman Baig
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2:10:49 Nabeel Durrani: my mother told me, if you fail, don't come back
with Nabeel Durrani
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2:09:29 Why Pakistani founders glamorise the wrong half of a startup
with Awais Shafique
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1:30:47 Why Jaffer Haider never took the VC money for PosterMyWall
with Jaffer Haider
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1:29:46 Why she left a global Cisco role to rebuild Pakistani charity
with Kanwal Cheema
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1:49:32 The engineer who became one of Pakistan's biggest singers
with Abdul Hannan
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2:04:25 The AI scientist who says fundamental science already ended
with Dr. Nasir Ahsan
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1:25:46 What AI does to law, and the courts too slow to notice
with Adam Jabbar
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1:52:51 From IT help desk to CTO of the Middle East's top coffee app
with Shahood Siddiqui
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1:38:27 Why cheap data and a small mindset keep Pakistan offline
with Taimur Nawaz
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1:48:41 What web3 actually means once you strip out the money
with Talha Bin Afzal
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1:22:33 Why AI rewards problem solvers and could bring women back to work
with Mahe Zehra Husain
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1:16:32 Crypto in Pakistan is unregulated, not illegal
with Rohan Asif & Humza Khan
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The Pakistani founder who bootstrapped three global startups
with Adeel Raza
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Why Ehsan Elahi built a time tracker to escape time trackers
with Ehsan Elahi
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The man quietly connecting rural Pakistan to the internet
with Haaris Mahmood Chaudhary
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Pakistan's politicians aren't incompetent — they're not trying
with Hussain Nadim
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The doctor who built PTI's digital machine
with Dr. Arslan Khalid
Listen → Usman Asif hit his 7.2 million dollar goal, then kept building
with Usman Asif
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Pakistan is on the precipice — and holding itself back
with Asif Aziz
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How Salim Ghauri turned a $90,000 deal into $150 million
with Salim Ghauri
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Why Muhammad Raza Saeed keeps his holdco in Pakistan
with Muhammad Raza Saeed
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Pakistan's freelancers built this industry themselves
with Mohsin Muzaffar
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The AI engineer quietly building Pakistan's food future
with Atique Ur Rehman
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The 21-year-old fixing Pakistan's traffic lights with AI
with Muhammad Ahmad
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Pakistan is missing crypto's biggest opportunity
with Haseeb Awan
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Can 5G save Pakistan's economy?
with Yang Gu, Kashif Junaidi (Pasha), Akram Ali
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1:01:54 The man who built Pakistan's startup incubator from scratch
with Parvez Abbasi
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1:20:32 Pakistan has no worthy number two to Systems Limited
with Kashif Manzoor
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1:34:50 The founder who built a company from a cold Upwork message
with Umair Majeed Rana
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1:02:47 Pakistan's first payment gateway wants to kill COD
with Adnan Ali
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1:44:24 Pakistan's first IT stock listing isn't really an IPO
with Ali Naqi Shaheen
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1:11:02 The four-salesperson cloud bet that became AWS
with Taimur Rashid
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1:07:35 Pakistan's IT problem is disconnection, not potential
with Mashroor Hussain
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1:17:10 Why an ex-Morgan Stanley PM left New York to build Abhi in Karachi
with Omair Ansari
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1:54:08 Why Pakistan's freelancers will be dead in three years if they don't transform
with Syed Arsalan Ali Shah
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1:14:04 Pakistan's bug bounty culture is destroying our cyber youth
with Etizaz Mohsin
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1:41:37 Why Pakistan's factories still push, when the world has moved to pull
with Badar Khushnood
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58:45 Pakistan has the largest Muslim diaspora in Silicon Valley
with Arzish Azam
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57:37 Pakistanis don't care about their own data
with Mirza Burhan Baig
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1:08:23 Why Pakistan's startup boom is a watershed, not a victory lap
with Zohaib Ali
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54:38 The internet is an ocean. Most Pakistanis are still wading in.
with Zaki Khalid
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55:27 Why Pakistan drew a border around technology
with Hamza Saeed
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43:03 Pakistan doesn't have career counsellors. So she built an AI one.
with Dr. Zunaira Saqib
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1:10:30 How Bitcoin actually works, explained from scratch
with Haroon Baig
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45:23 Pakistan's hologram industry is eight months of demos and no takers
with Oztech (Zabarthus & Yavar Khan)
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1:20:22 Why Bitcoin alone won't fix Pakistan's economy
with Ahmad Manzoor
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1:00:41 How to get a job as a web developer, with Ehmad Zubair
with Ehmad Zubair
Listen → Pakistan's first space team fights custom laws and brain drain
with Usaidul Hasan & Hamza Khalid
Listen → Sign language as infrastructure for half a billion
with Ali and Vamek
Listen → Pakistan's digital economy needs patience, not speed
with Hamayun Sajad
Listen → Design school taught me to start early, not to wait
with Wasif
Listen → How rap carries weight beyond diss culture
with Sunny Khan Durrani
Listen → Technology reshapes politics when people become experts
with Rehan Allahwala
Listen → Engineering education must prepare students for life
with Ahsan Malik
Listen → Balancing medical school and YouTube as a creator
with Abdullah Khattak
Listen → Information is the real currency in a data-driven world
with Haroon Kanth
Listen → Online learning makes knowledge replicable
with Amir Bhagat
Listen → Language shapes identity in Pakistan
with Maham Khan
Listen → Pakistan's IT industry is a symptom, not a market
with Syed Ahmad
Listen → Platform bans and the cost of internet regulation
with Osama Khilji
Listen → Data profiling now predicts behavior across marketing and crime
with Ali Ilyas
Listen → YouTube's five-year lag is Pakistan's opportunity
with Humza Amin
Listen → Remote work is Pakistan's billion-dollar opportunity
with Saad Hamid
Listen → Evolution through culture and design, not doctrine
with Mooroo
Listen → The authenticity trap for public figures
with Ali Ilyas
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