Enterprise
The Slow Collapse
Pakistan media and technology · independent analysis · may 2026 TheSlowCollapse. Pakistan’s news industry is sitting on 111 million potential readers, a diaspora wiring $38.3 billion home every year, and the most influential audience in the country living on X. They are reaching almost none of them. Here’s the data. Here’s why. Here’s what they … Read more
Pakistan’s Software Export Board: A Legacy Trap in the AI Era
In Pakistan’s noisy tech streets freelancers doing midnight sprints around power cuts, startups scrimping to keep servers alive, founders flying to meet clients because local procurement rarely buys from them. The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) sits like an institutional fossil. Founded in the dial up era to “promote Pakistan’s IT industry,” it still evaluates … Read more
Veon’s Jazz in Pivot Peril as PTCL-Etisalat Merger Shakes Up Pakistani Telecom Landscape
In the burgeoning telecom sector of Pakistan, Veon’s subsidiary Jazz faces a pivotal juncture. Veon’s third-quarter financial disclosures and strategic plans, outlined during their latest earnings call and a comprehensive trading update, convey a narrative of a company striving for digital metamorphosis amidst a fiercely competitive and economically challenging environment. The latest figures from Veon … Read more
Its Complicated. The curious case of Fintechs, Banks and Asma.
It truly is complicated, every one just graduated from MAU(Monthly Active Users) to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and now on to Blockchain. (Formerly known as Block Chain). We are still catching up on financial inclusion. Before we get in to Artificial Intelligence lets talk about basic intelligence or due diligence. With news daily of X “local” … Read more
Get. Set. Go ; Stupidity Avoidance Filter (It’s a real thing)
Every day when people wake up in Silicon Valley, they get up , set eyes on their mission and get going to deliver on their vision. This btw is not only limited to California but from Tel Aviv to New Delhi and from Jakarta to Sao Polo all the places that are going places have … Read more
The Game of Assumptions. Road to Pakistan’s GMV
This is joint post by Jawwad Farid & Faizan Siddiqi * Before we start let us all take a deep breath and try to ascertain what GMV means. Gross Merchandise Volume From Wikipedia Gross merchandise volume or GMV is a term used in online retailing to indicate a total sales dollar value for merchandise sold through a particular … Read more
**k your Accelerator / Saith Investor & get ready for an IPO
Are you an Entrepreneur with either 100k MAU or between 30-40% Margins in your business(Not Just Tech)? Are you struggling to scale beyond this? Read on. Are you interested in Scale? Chinook Strategy will invest its resources for an 8%-10% revenue share to either lead you to a desirable seed round, exit, IPO or institutional … Read more
The Worlds Biggest Startups & The Men who run the largest Accelerator @ Scale
I bet you are thinking to your self you already know the answer to this question. If I was a betting man, I would wager that you didn’t, or at the very least it would not be your first guess any way. Saudi Arabia doesn’t come off as easily as MTV(Mountain View) or SFO(San Francisco) … Read more
Alibaba and its Chaalis (40) choices in Pakistan | 阿里巴巴及其在巴基斯坦的40個選擇
These days its seems like not a day goes by and some one or the other publishes a picture, a leaked story, an input a whisper about Alibaba talking to some one in the country. That in it self is fantastic and super exciting. The choices for Ali Baba are literally unlimited in what they … Read more