Welcome to the second episode of Unlimited Partners. My guest today is Rahat Ahmed from Anchorless. He's the Founding Partner & CEO of Anchorless Bangladesh. He's an investor, advisor and strategist in technology and emerging markets with a focus on long-term value creation. Passionate about emerging technologies and how consumer behaviour will evolve over the next 25 years.At Anchorless Bangladesh, they are very excited to work with brilliant founders with incredible ideas, globally-experienced investors, the startup community and other local stakeholders to strengthen the Bangladeshi ecosystem.

Join me for a discussion with Rahat as we dive into his background and what it means to build in a part of the world is growing at 10% GDP year over year. Taking on risk when you're looking for 100x returns. What a good founder looks like, as well as many other great tidbits of info.

I am your host, Thomas McGannon.

 

Discussion Points:

Rahat's Bangladesh upbringing

Moving to Texas

Building ecosystems in an emerging market

Risk

What makes a good partner

Good founder qualities

Mobile phone growth

Tech infrastructure

USA/Bangladesh relations

Resources:

 

Rahat Ahmed LinkedIn

Thomas McGannon LinkedIn