Ahmed Fahad at Pathao
Seven years on the founding team at Pathao, one of South Asia's leading tech platforms, finishing as SVP & Head of Product. A first startup at 17, funded by Fahim Saleh, didn't work out, but it led him to the team that built Pathao.
- Role
- Founding team · SVP & Head of Product
- Years
- Seven
- Markets
- Bangladesh and Nepal
- Built
- Ride-sharing, food delivery, digital payments, BNPL
- Scale
- 10M+ users · $500M+ GMV · $50M+ raised
Written from inside Pathao
- Building Pathao Tong
How Pathao Tong grew 100× in its first seven days during the COVID-19 lockdown, and the principles behind moving that fast.
- Zero to Launch: How Pathao Points Was Created
Why Pathao Points was launched, how it works, the research behind it and the metrics it is watched by.
- Scaling an idea to a $100 Million Company
A long conversation about work at Pathao, balancing school and work, and being raised by a single mom.
Pathao on video
- The real story of Pathao, episode 1
Starting out as a software developer, meeting Fahim Saleh, starting Pathao and launching Pathao Courier in 2015. In Bangla, on YouTube.
- Starting Pathao Rides, episode 2
Dhaka's traffic problem, buying the first bikes, scaling demand and supply, then launching in Chittagong, Sylhet and Kathmandu. In Bangla, on YouTube.
- How Pathao raised millions
How to pitch a startup to a venture capital investor, slide by slide, using Pathao's and Airbnb's real pitch decks. In Bangla, on YouTube.
- Made from dreams: the Pathao office tour
A tour of the Pathao office, the team's home since late 2017, and some of the people who work there. In Bangla, on YouTube.
Pathao in conversation
- Sajid Rahman
Sajid Rahman on lessons from investing in 1,500+ startups
- Ashiful Haque Pappu
Ashiful Haque Pappu on landing a product design job at Grab in Singapore
- Sifat Hasan
Sifat Hasan on high-income tech careers and product manager salaries
- Zunaid Ahmed Palak
Zunaid Ahmed Palak shares his hopes for Pathao Health
Questions
- Who founded Pathao?
- Pathao was co-founded by Hussain M. Elius, Fahim Saleh and Shifat Adnan. Ahmed Fahad joined them on the founding team that built the company.
- Was Ahmed Fahad a founder of Pathao?
- He was part of Pathao's founding team, the early group that built the company, and spent seven years there, finishing as SVP & Head of Product.
- What did Ahmed Fahad build at Pathao?
- As Head of Product he launched ride-sharing, food delivery and payments, and he helped take Pathao to Nepal, launching in Kathmandu. He also launched Pathao Courier in 2015, and led Pathao Tong, which grew 100× in its first seven days during the COVID-19 lockdown, and Pathao Points.
- How big did Pathao get?
- More than 10 million users and $500 million in GMV, with more than $50 million raised in funding. It is one of South Asia's leading tech platforms, and Nepal's #1 ride-hailing and food delivery app.
- What does Ahmed Fahad do now?
- He is the Chief Operating Officer of Eddie AI in San Francisco, where he runs growth. After Pathao he co-founded Wind, a stablecoin remittance app that was acquired, and was Head of Product, Growth and Partnerships at Muslim Pro.