Building Bangladesh's Biggest Tech Startup with Hussain Elius, Founder and CEO of Pathao

While Southeast Asia remains one of the hottest markets in the region, South Asia is also catching up, especially with the likes of Bangladesh and Pakistan. The region is also home to some of the fastest-growing tech startups, and today, we venture down south to Bangladesh and talk to the co-founder and CEO of Pathao, Bangladesh's largest tech company which is valued at over $100 million. Pathao is the leading ride-sharing, on-demand logistics, and food delivery platform in Bangladesh. Today, its motorbike and car-hailing vertical alone serves five million riders across five cities in Bangladesh and Kathmandu in Nepal. How did Pathao come into existence? For a market with typically no culture of motorcycle-taxis, how did you create the need in the market? How did they manage to stand out from the competition even against the likes of Uber? How has their journey been moving from an app to a super app? We talk about all these and more, in today’s episode. Show Notes 02:20 Introduction to Hussain Elius 03:22 How Pathao came into existence 05:48 What the status quo was before Pathao 08:21 Inspiration behind founding Pathao 11:10 The competitive landscape for Pathao 13:50 The competition against Uber 17:20 Understanding why the “Uber-way” was not the way to go 22:37 Lessons learned from Gojek 25:30 Pathao’s expansion to Nepal 29:05 Evolution of Hussain’s role 32:43 Does mentorship matter? 36:03 Final thoughts Many thanks to our guests Hussain Elius ; host Oscar Ramos ; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary ; editor David ; organizer Chinaccelerator ; and sponsor People Squared . Be sure to check out our website Share,

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Building Bangladesh's Biggest Tech Startup with Hussain Elius, Founder and CEO of Pathao is an episode from The China Startup Pulse by Orbit Startups.

This episode is 00:39:31 long.

This episode was published on Jul 1, 2021.

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