Creative Marketer / Entrepreneur / Angel Investor. An Optimist who likes connecting people and getting things done! 🇵🇰 🇦🇪 🇺🇸
Karachi, Pakistan
Joined August 2009
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The Man, The Myth, The Legend @faizansiddiqi ! Great stuff @MubarizSiddiqui
Best career advice I have received came from @faizansiddiqi, and I have done well every time I followed it.
Do not pick the right industry. Pick problems that scale. Compound what makes you valuable, not the years you have spent in one vertical.
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"Things are going well. I don't know why I'm struggling with it."
I hear some version of this from founders constantly.
Revenue's up. The team's growing. Momentum is real.
And they're restless anyway. Tired. Second-guessing calls they used to make on instinct.
The instinct is to work harder. Usually the fix is the opposite: stop long enough to think clearly.
Founders rarely have a room where they can say any of this out loud:
→ I'm not sure this is the right strategy anymore
→ I'm exhausted by the thing I built
→ I think I'm the bottleneck
→ I don't know what the next version of this company, or me, looks like
No boardroom. No team to reassure. No investors to manage. No friends telling you it'll be fine.
Just someone who's operated through growth, turnarounds and pivots for 20 years, listening and pushing back on the parts you're too close to see.
Not motivation. Not advice for advice's sake. Better thinking.
I've made this deliberately accessible: direct booking, no retainer. chinookstrategy.com/#work
If something's been sitting in your head unresolved, bring it as-is. You don't need to have it figured out first.
That's what the hour is for.
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Everyone thinks the opportunity was in buying KE.
I think the opportunity is in rebuilding KE.
They're not the same thing.
Before AI, smart grids and digital transformation, can the next owners fix the basics? Resolve the circular debt, invest in the network and build a culture that attracts world-class talent?
KE can be so much more than load shedding.
But first it has to become a great company.
Heres how ⬇️
Hot take: K-Electric is the most underrated tech company in Pakistan.
Yes, the one you curse during load-shedding.
It owns more data on how Karachi lives, earns and pays than any bank, telco or startup in the country. It does almost nothing with it.
On the stock market it's worth the same as ONE Lahore software house doing an eighth of its revenue.
It's holding a cheat code and playing on hard mode.
I make the full case here 👇
profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/…
RT @faizansiddiqi: The Hon. Minister @ShazaFK recently led a session with Pakistan’s freelancer community, and I had the opportunity to at…
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4 years ago I told myself I'd write one newsletter every week for entrepreneurs as an outcome of a spaces discussion...
Weddings. Funerals. Flights. Sick days. Holidays. 210 weeks later , still going strong.
If you're building something bigger than yourself, this is for you 👇
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The Supreme Court upheld the Sindh High Court decision that the board of TRG has committed a $150 million fraud against TRG’s 13,000 public shareholders. A business that once managed over $2 billion in assets now has only $100 million, with the rest destroyed by the present management, while they have paid themselves and their lawyers tens of millions of dollars. We look forward to removing them in the upcoming board elections now endorsed by the Supreme Court, and rebuilding the business, hopefully to even greater success than before.
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Pakistan’s biggest news brands have 28.5M combined followers on X.
Average engagement rate: 0.017%
That’s not influence. That’s a Contact List.
Some outlets with 5M+ followers are barely hitting 1–3K views per post.
Here is my detailed take on The Slow Collapse of Legacy Media In Pakistan.
Follow the Link Below ⬇️
bit.ly/theslowcollapse
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Pakistan is a top 5 freelancing country in the world. Its payment infrastructure belongs in 2005. This is how I think we can solve it.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪 UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just humiliatingly dismissed Senator Lindsey Graham in the most eloquent way possible.
Graham's calling for Gulf states to join the war. Says they're "under attack" and need to fight alongside the US.
Al Habtoor's response: "We know full well why we are under attack, and we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his 'allies.'"
In other words: You started this war without asking us. Now you want us to fight it for you? No!
The money shot: Graham said Iran and Venezuela together hold 31% of global oil reserves. That if the U.S. takes control, it's a "nightmare for China" and America would "make a lot of money."
Al Habtoor: "Only then does the picture become clear. And only then do we understand why they want this war."
Not about freedom. Not about security. Oil and money. Graham said it himself.
"We do not need your protection. All we want from you is to keep your hands off us.
We invest in our security and pay billions of dollars for these weapons. This is an industry that thrives on wars and arms sales, not a charitable endeavor."
The kill shot:
"Senator Graham: You may be a senator in the U.S. Senate, but anyone who hears your statements might think you're a member of the Israeli Knesset, because you defend Israel's interests more than you defend the interests of the American people themselves.
We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions.
We want peace and stability. We will not accept being forced down the path of war, nor will we accept being fuel for others' battles."
The Gulf-U.S. alliance just cracked in public. Over oil. Over being used. Over being told to sacrifice their people for American profits and Israeli security.
Meanwhile, the UAE is treating its residents and tourists like their own nationals (Arabs, Israelis, Europeans, Americans, and Asians alike), and resiliently ensuring their airports, ports and infrastructure operate flawlessly. Not lost on them is the media wars being played to bait them into joining a war they never wanted in the first place.
@KhalafAlHabtoor
🚨🇮🇷 The viral images of Khamenei's body in rubble are AI-generated.
Reuters and Google's SynthID detection tool confirming it, with "very high confidence" the images are fake.
In a war with a near-total internet blackout inside Iran, AI-generated content is filling the information vacuum in real time.
Verify everything. Believe nothing you can't source.
Reuters
This could have been a much better ad @emirates
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I will publicly disavow ANYBODY justifying this.
He likes Trump? He likes Israel? Guess what? He’s a fucking AMERICAN and he has freedom of speech.
You can love Stalin for all I care.
Hold any fucking opinion you want NOBODY gets shot for an opinion in a civilised world.
Please don’t die @charliekirk11.
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BREAKING NEWS: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, 31, has died after being shot at an event in Utah. An appalling assault on free speech and democracy. Charlie always welcomed debate, with anyone. This is disgusting, and heart-breaking.
RIP Charlie. 🙏
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We the people and the Gov of Pakistan needs to really support our Athletes..... so proud of the National Hockey Team for getting to the finals with such lack of resources!!! @GovtofPakistan @OfficialDGISPR
This is the moment when Pakistan reached the final of FIH Nations Cup. What a world class save by Muneeb Ur Rehman 🇵🇰♥️♥️♥️ #FIHNationsCup #tapmad
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This is the moment when Pakistan reached the final of FIH Nations Cup. What a world class save by Muneeb Ur Rehman 🇵🇰♥️♥️♥️ #FIHNationsCup #tapmad