Investing at 25

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  • 💸 Financial Literacy in Pakistan | Gen Z & Millenials Financial Awareness | How to invest in Pakistan? Ft. GenMo

    Episode#18 of my founder series: Investing at 25 

    I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, Tips on Investing & Getting Started in your Career, Building your Skillset, Developing Growth Mindset, improving your Mental Health & of course Invest in your Financial Wellbeing!   

    In this episode, I sit down with Mohsen Siddiqui, based in Karachi, he's the founder of @genmoapp, on a mission to change this for millions of Pakistanis and increase financial literacy and inclusion amongst the next generation.  

    In this episode, we'll talk about:

    💡 What are the key financial decisions you need to make in your 20s

    ✍️ Tips on Financial inclusion & Increasing Financial Education in Pakistan
    💸 Mohsin's Journey from being a stock broker to a startup founder
    🫶 How to improve your personal finance and money management  

    With this episode, I want to leave you with just one question:
    Throughout your academic career, were you ever taught what to do with you money?

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    44 min
  • 👏 How to Break into Marketing & Scale your Career Globally? Liia's Story as a Global Marketing Leader

    Episode#17 of my series: Investing at 25

     I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, Tips on Investing & Getting Started in your Career, Building your Skillset, Developing Growth Mindset, improving your Mental Health & of course Invest in your Financial Wellbeing!   

    Liia's currently the VP of marketing at Linearity. She lives and breathes marketing in tech, bringing multiple years of experience impacting scaling companies such as Bolt, where she served as the Global Head of Delivery Marketing.  

    In this episode, we'll talk about: 

    ❤️ Her passion for Marketing

    💡 Her Career choices, Freelancing Journey & Inspirations
    ✍️ Tips on Prioritising Projects & Requests in her Daily Job
    🛣 Her Journey as a Global Marketing Leader at a Fast Paced Tech Environment
    🫶 How to maintain work life balance in a fast paced tech environment  

    Tune in for a fun convo about Liia's journey as a Full Stack Marketeer!


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    31 min
  • 💡 How is Web3 Marketing different from Web2 Marketing? Ft. Tom Sargent

    Episode #16 of my series: Investing at 25 #interviews #podcast #web3

    Today, I'm so excited to meet Tom Sargent ✨  He is the CEO and Founder of Expensive JPEG. Expensive JPEG offers Web3, NFT, Crypto, and Metaverse advice to projects and brands looking to launch into this exciting new world. In today's episode, we will talk about NFTs, Web3, Metaverse, digital collectibles, and Tom's journey! 🚀  


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    👉 Connect with Tom here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsargent24/

    Check out Expensive JPEG here: https://www.expensivejpeg.com

    24 min
  • 💡 How to become a Web3 Blockchain Developer? Ft. Peter Holzer

    Episode # 15 of my series: Investing at 25

    I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, Tips on Investing in your Career, Skillset, Mindset, Mental Health & of course your Financial Wellbeing! This series is a safe space where we don't cover the over glorified wins of the founders, VCs or industry experts, instead we dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their journeys.  

    Peter Holzer has been a software developer for 7+ years. He's the CEO and Software Developer at Bytero.io, which helps companies not to miss out on Blockchain trains 🚂 

    I am super excited about today's episode, where we will talk about Web 3.0, blockchain, and, of course, Peter's journey! 🚀

    Listen in for a fun episode on Blockchain, Web3, Tech and Personal Growth!

    Do not forget to subscribe to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way every Thursday!


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    Connect with Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-holzer-dev/

    16 min
  • 🔥 Social Investing | Invest in stocks with as little as £1 | Let's talk investing with Harjas Singh

    Episode #14 of my series: Investing at 25   

    Meet Harjas Singh: Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Shares, a Social Investing App 💸  

    Many people don't start investing money because they think they don't have enough money to start or they don't know how or where to deploy their funds. With Shares, you can watch your buddies’ investment moves, chat about strategy and grow your investments together.  

    Harjas in this episode, covers the idea behind Shares, a social investing platform where you can invest with your friends and build strategies together. 

     An interesting fact about Shares: Williams sisters (Serena Williams & Venus Williams), backed London-based Shares app with a recent $40 million funding round.  I'm excited to share Harjas' journey with you. Let's learn how to invest better!   

    Shares is currently available in UK and Nordics. If you're based in EU or anywhere else, you can join the waitlist on the Shares website.

      *this is not financial advice :)  

    Do not forget to subscribe to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way every Thursday!  

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    Connect with Harjas here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjas-singh-7b61a048/

    Check out Shares: https://shares.io/ 



    23 min
  • ✨ Learning and un-learning | How to make Life more Meaningful | True Leadership Ft. Kamran Rizvi

    Episode #13 of my series: Investing at 25   

    Today, I'm so excited to host Kamran Rizvi from  @SchoolofLeadershipPk  who's an Inspirational Speaker, Executive Coach & OD Consultant. Kamran Rizvi has a tremendous journey and today he shares how he developed his school of thought while going through different chapters in life and then went on to establish the School of Leadership (SOL) in Pakistan with Shireen Naqvi. 

    SOL has trained thousands of trainers, young leaders & change makers in Pakistan that have spread out all over the world to become influencers in their communities, on their campuses and in their companies.  

    In this episode, you'll experience Kamran's absolutely inspiring journey and many AHA moments as he continues to share his wisdom with us! I'm truly grateful for this episode and glad you all can hear it!

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    Connect with Kamran here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamranzr/ 

    Website: http://kzr.co/ 

    School of Leadership: https://sol.edu.pk/ 

    54 min
  • 🚀 Hunger, Energy & Hustle | Hashim's journey from Meta to Microsoft to Google | Advice on Career Building

    Episode #12 of my series: Investing at 25 I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, where we don't just cover the over glorified wins of the founders, instead dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their startup journeys. 

    Hashim's stellar career at Meta, Microsoft, and now Google as a Regional Product Lead speaks volumes of the Hunger, Energy & Hustle he represents. As a young adult in his 20s, Hashim's truly passionate about helping people build their careers. Tune in to hear Hashim's career advice! 

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    Connect with Hashim here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hashim-syed/ 


    25 min
  • ✨ The Journey of defying all odds as a successful mum entrepreneur in Silicon Valley with Reshma Hyder

    Episode #11 of my series: Investing at 25 

    I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, where we don't cover the over glorified wins of the founders, instead dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their journeys.  

    Reshma Hyder is the Jill of all trades! A super successful real estate investor, angel investor, a mum of 6, grandma of 2, who's currently the CEO of ZenSpace. Reshma's not just another Silicon Valley success story, but the struggles she has endured to be where she's at, leave behind a legacy of strength and courage. She's a mentor for so many young students across the world and without a doubt she's the actual Queen of networking and diversity 🙌

    Listen till the very end to hear what advice Reshma Aapa has for us twenty yr olds!  

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    Reshma's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshmahyder/

    59 min
  • 🚀 Robin's journey from TechCrunch to The Next Web to founding Tech.eu

    Episode #10 of my series: Investing at 25 I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, where we don't just cover the over glorified wins of the founders, instead dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their startup journeys.

    Robin Wauters is Founding Editor at Tech.eu. He is a European tech innovation and startup journalist, analyst, speaker and event curator. With previous stints at The Next Web and TechCrunch under his belt, Robin is also a Co-founder of BeCentral and Startup Europe Lens.

    Tune in to hear how he started his career in Media & Journalism, and his advice for people in their 20s!

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    Connect with Robin here:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinwauters/

    30 min
  • ⚡️ Meet Nadeem Hussain, the Great Mind behind Tameer Microfinance Bank, EasyPaisa & Planet N Group

    Episode #9 of my series: Investing at 25 I'm so excited to share Founder Stories, where we don't cover the over glorified wins of the founders, instead dive straight into the challenges and hardships they faced when they decided to embark on their journeys.  

    Nadeem Hussain, Founder and Coach of his latest venture Planet N, aims to catalyze the next wave of tech entrepreneurship in Pakistan. Planet N Group of Companies focuses on Financial Inclusion and facilitation of entrepreneurship in Pakistan through technology and has added 24 companies to its portfolio across e-commerce, fintech, edutech, mobile television, retail and renewable energy. He started Tameer Microfinance Bank at the age of 48, that went on to create EasyPaisa with Telenor, that revolutionized domestic payments in Pakistan and still remains the largest payment agency.   


    Listen till the very end to hear what advice Sir Nadeem has for us twenty yr olds!  

    Feel free to reach out and connect with me:  

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    Sir Nadeem's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadeem-hussain-43798923/

    Planet N Group Portfolio Companies: https://www.planetngroup.com/

    21 min

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Welcome to Investing at 25!! A series for everyone in their 20s figuring their sh*t out! In this series, we'll cover founder stories, industry expert opinions on how to get your career started, and…