In this video, we had Sajid Rahman bhai in our podcast.
Sajid Bhai is a man of many identities. He is now serving as a Board Member of ICANN. Having worked in banking for 20+ years, Sajid bhai was the Country Head of Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in Nigeria and Indonesia đ He has invested in 1,500+ startups and early-stages companies.
We focused on Sajid Bhai’s journey from the University of Dhaka to building a global reputation for himself, the story of investing in 1500 startups including Pathao, 10 Minute School, Chaldal, ShopUp, starting the first wind power plant in Bangladesh and plenty of other things in this episode đĨ
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Timestamps:
0:00-2:50 – Intro
2:51-6:03 – Introduction of Sajid Rahman
6:04-8:07 – Early life
8:08-9:08 – Getting into finance
9:09-12:54 – Global journey with Standard Chartered
12:55-15:56 – Sajid’s philosophy of investing
17:51-20:46 – Investing in Shop-up
20:47-23:00 – Differentiating founders
23:01-28:04 – Involvement with YCombinator companies
28:05-31:52 – Why global startups seek Sajid Bhai’s investment
31:53-36:46 – Operating Telenor health
36:47-41:07 – About the Wind Mill project
41:08-43:54 – Reason behind choosing renewal energy
43:55-45:51 – Being Inquisitive
42:52-47:51 – About Sajid’s Peersc
47:52-51:07 – How Sajid became a global name & his availability
51:08-53:00 – Advice for youngsters
53:01-54:29 – Books, blogs, podcasts
54:30-56:58 – How Sajid evaluates a company before investing
56:59-58:53 – thoughts on Ed-Tech & Health-tech
58:54-59:55 – Principle of Sajid Rahman
WHO AM I:
I’m Fahad, I serve as Sr. Vice President & Head of Product at Pathao, one of the largest technology platforms in Bangladesh/Nepal, recently valued at $150mn+. I studied finance at IBA, University of Dhaka. I make videos about product management, startups, personal productivity, and so on.
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Keywords: Investment, Angel Investor, Startup Funding, Business Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Startups in Bangladesh, Bangla Podcast, Ahmed Fahad
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