Kamal Quadir is the CEO of bKash, Bangladesh’s largest mobile financial services company. An entrepreneur at heart, Kamal is best known for introducing e-commerce in Bangladesh by founding CellBazar, an online marketplace which was acquired by Telenor after it reached 4 million users. Kamal Quadir is also the First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Foundation, a TED fellow and the World Economic Forum recognized him as a Young Global Leader. He has received many awards including, Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, the 2005 MIT Ideas Award and India's Manthan Award for “Best E-Content for Development”.
In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the extraordinary capacity every human being possesses, disrupting industries from e-commerce to personal finance, effectively marketing your product, security and outsourcing, team building and much, much more.