Professional failure.
My Past
- I’ve been building stuff since Disney 🏰 wrote me a check at 15.
- I then
- founded UK’s first student run VC fund 💸 (£6M AUM) @ 19,
- worked as a software engineer in Shanghai and moonlighted in a bunch of VCs
- almost ****joined YC S21, turned down a couple of checks and a co-founder position with an ex-unicorn 🦄 founder,
- was a CoS for a USD$100M/year eCommerce 🛍 roll up
- went from 0 to 13M in revenue as the Head of Product serving a G7 nation’s security apparatus ⚔️ and XXB AUM hedge funds (Arthur Hayes tweeted about us)
- and am the proud angel of a Pakistani startup, Buscaro 🚌.
- I studied law at Oxford 🎓 on a government scholarship, and in another life, would probably be an IPO lawyer for Davis Polk.
Skills 💪
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Building 🛠
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Coding ⌨️
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Investing 💰
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Law ⚖️
Education 🎓
Somerville College, University of Oxford
- Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (Law), 2016 - 2019