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 got VC funding with YC S21, ODF, EF, angel checks and even a co-founder position with an ex-unicorn 🦄 founder
- was a CoS for a USD$100M/year eCommerce 🛍 roll up
- led Product from $0 to 15M USD in revenue, selling to G7/petro-states’ security apparatuses ⚔️ 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 💪
- Building 🛠
- Coding ⌨️
- Investing 💰
- Law ⚖️
Education 🎓
Somerville College, University of Oxford
- Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (Law), 2016 - 2019
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