Now · shipping Coach v0.9 in May, raising the seas
Founder · Speaker · Diver
Cofounder & CEO of Social Champ. Zohaib coded the first prototype as my birthday gift. I tweeted it at Guy Kawasaki. He responded, used it, and now uses it every day. Canva talked acqu-hire in 2016, came back in 2017, we walked the second time. Vendasta offered roughly $3M in 2022, we walked from that too. Profitable ever since. We just shipped one of the world's first MCP integrations.
TEDxNUSTKarachi 2017 ("The Power of Influence"), Web Summit Lisbon and Doha, Slush'D Karachi, Techstars Toronto Demo Day, Collision Toronto. The closing slide of every talk I have given for fifteen years has read the same: Balance your life before it's too late. I lived that slide before I lost the chance to.
I learned to love the ocean from my father on Qatar weekends. He passed in February 2026. The YouTube channel that documents my dives crossed 100,000 subscribers a few weeks later and earned a Silver Play Button. The box arrived after he was gone. It sat unopened.
Husband. Father. Karachi is home.
The Through-Line
Family said become a doctor. I left medical track for software. The first act of entrepreneurship was choosing my own life.
GameOChat. Educating Dreams. RemindZapp. Three startups in four years that taught me Vitamin vs Painkiller, the danger of friends-and-family validation, and how a team survives loss.
US Embassy denied my visa. Jehan Ara wrote letters to the embassy. The second application was approved. The trip changed everything.
Fish have a sixth sense. They turn the moment you aim. I keep going back. The reset is worth every bleeding hand.
What I'm building
I use Pakistani product every day. It's called Social Champ.
— Guy Kawasaki, on stage at 021Disrupt 2020. It started with a tweet from me in 2016: "Your book inspired me to create a social media management tool." He responded. He used it. He pointed out bugs. He endorsed it publicly. He has been a paying customer since 2024.
Visit Social ChampFrom the desk
What I'm chasing
Charna Island and Somar Goth, in the Arabian Sea. I target grouper, snapper, barracuda, and sweetlip. A 24-hour marathon ended with a Red Snapper's gills slicing my hand open, field-dressed with seawater miles from shore. The ocean is honest in a way meeting rooms are not.
The YouTube channel that documents these dives crossed 100,000 subscribers in February 2026 and earned a Silver Play Button. The email arrived while my father was alive. The box arrived after he was gone.
Behind it all
I'm an INFP. Pakistani. Born in 1990, raised partly in Qatar. I have natural silver hair and tell people it is because I am The Flash. I have a wife and a daughter who have rearranged everything I thought I knew about time. The names stay private. The love does not.
I lost my father in February 2026. Years before he passed I had imagined life without my parents and built a Friday ritual without telling anyone. Jummah prayers together. Lunch together. Five minutes from the office. My younger brother quietly requested WFH on Fridays from his employer, week after week, just to be there. He never said a word about it. He just made sure he was there.
Faith is woven through this, not stacked on top. I pray before I speak. I pray before I dive. I pray when I do not know what to say.
The work is not to be more. The work is to be honest, to leave the world a little better than I found it, and to remember that the dark openings of my poems always end in light.
Speaking, partnerships, or hi. The fastest path to me is a 15-minute call. Email works too.
