Carbon6's community empowers eCommerce sellers, removing the barriers to selling online. Focused on the global Amazon seller community, this innovative StartWell member company has just come out of stealth mode and is rapidly scaling their team and software solutions.

For this session of the StartWell podcast we sit down with 2 of the company's cofounders, Naseem Saloojee and Kazi Ahmed and hear their foundation story plus learn what their approach to providing Amazon sellers value is.

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Qasim Virjee 0:27

Welcome back to this the 41st episode of the start, well podcast this time I'm joined in studio on King Street West in downtown Toronto here at start well, by the illustrious co founders are two of the cofounders will hear the larger story of how the company came to be of carbon six, which is a member company here at start. Well, their offices are resident at struggles campus on King Street West. And let's just jump into it. So here I am, sat with Nassim Sergey Fuji, so the jeep and Kazi Ahmed. Guys, it's a pleasure to have you in studio. Thank you for joining me.

Unknown Speaker 1:04

Pleasure to be here, right to be here.

Qasim Virjee 1:07

I know that carbon six has been kind of in stealth mode. And I want to hear how it got into stealth mode to start off with what is carbon six? Or I should say, let's start at the beginning. What was carbon six when you guys started, like figuring out what you wanted to do to create this company? And who is you guys anyway? How did you? How did you come together? And what's your interest in the topic? Matter is? Yeah, curious to me, and then start? Yeah, go for it.

Kazi Ahmed 1:34

So yeah, maybe I'll get started. So in the SEMA, and I know each other almost a decade at this point. And, you know, we went to business school together, coming out of business school, you know, we were doing different things, starting different companies. But we always wanted to work on something together at some point. But we were trying to figure out what about a year ago, I was exiting my last business, which was a roll up of mental health clinics. And one of the lead investors there is actually our third co founder who's not here today, because he's, he's based out of the US in Puerto Rico, he was actually an investor in that business. Okay. And as that business was exiting, we were starting to have conversations about what next etcetera, etcetera. And this idea of carbon six was noodling around on his head. And, you know, I'll go into a little bit about what carbon six is, you know, he, there's a lot of people who are trying to sell online, right, like on marketplace, on Amazon, on Walmart on Shopify. And, you know, people sometimes thinks it's pretty easy to sell online, but it's actually pretty difficult. If you, you know, talk to a number of successful sellers, they're using anywhere between eight to 15 different tools to run their business. You know, the same way any of us use, you know, DocuSign and Docs and, and zoom, etc, etc, to run a business there. Imagine a whole suite of tools to help run, run your business. Right. And, you know, Justin had been talking to some some folks in his neighborhood who were successful Amazon sellers. And

Qasim Virjee 3:15

like, literally, in his residential neighborhood, in

Kazi Ahmed 3:17

his residential neighborhood, like literally, in the pool, like, his kids, kids are swimming with their kids. And he's like, chatting with them by the pool. Yeah. And trying to understand, what is this sort of new world of E commerce? And what makes the people who are in this, like, nice neighborhood, like successful versus, you know, the 10 million people who will try selling online? Well, they'r