How to be an Entrepreneur - Zeeshaan Shah on how he built a billion dollar company - TPE 281

Zeeshaan Shah is a Multi-award Winning Entrepreneur, Zeeshaan Shah is the Chairman & Founder of the ONE Group, a diversified global real estate and venture capital firm and Pakistan's Honorary Ambassador-at-Large.
On this episode of The Pakistan Experience Zeeshaan Shah discusses Business, Entrepreneurship, Dropping out from school, starting from scratch and the importance of Hard Work.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:51 Teenage Years in Karachi, Distaste for a 9-5 job, University years, being a phone salesman in UK
19:23 Relocation to Dubai, real estate, knowing when to move on, Prince naseem & Floyd Mayweather
29:57 Starting fresh in the UK, The apprentice, scaling up businesses
45:23 Investing in Pakistan, Pakistani energy sector and IPPs, Debt Servicing, making a business plan for the country
1:01:31 incentivising important industries, diverting money away from real estate, localisation of production, barriers to freelancing, learning from failure
1:21:53 Audience Questions

[@AsifV7]

Keep it up shiekh Saab u r doing such an amazing job. I just listened this on Google podcast while driving.very inspirational.

[@adeelansari]

Man what a great storyteller. Loved listening to his experiences being told in such a candid way

[@fayezakamal3778]

Excellent. So good to see a dynamic young man. I'm old now, but totally resonate with this. Have tried my hand at lots of fabulous things. I've just done a partnership in med tech. My passion. Pray i have success. May all our young people get inspired by this wonderful guy. ❤

[@SmokeMamba-pi5xk]

Retired hai kya aap? And Aapne haaj karliya kya ?

[@salimpatel6551]

Speaks so well and touches on so many mindset points. Great content.

[@JanShairKhanEngineer]

This will be added in the list of one of my all time favourite podcasts.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@AbdulBasit-sp1ow]

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your podcast, it's one of the best podcast i have ever heard on this channel. I would love to hear more episodes on different topics rather than politics. Thank you!

[@adeebazaidi637]

zabardast ..!!Keep up the good work Shehzad 👍

[@nazimhussain4531]

we need more interviews of zeeshan on different channels in pakistan. good job zeeshan. couldnt disagree with even one thing what you said..

[@todaywithmuhammadayubnawab3116]

Actually it’s motivated Podcast, good job Shahzad & keep it up

[@YousufAhmad0]

Thank you so much

[@dhirajpandey6018]

He is an awesome man, highly gifted by god, but still so grounded. Learned a lot from you about life apart from business. Love from India.

[@umairyasin1354]

01:17:52 the best part 👌

[@talhasheikh9865]

This man, summed up so good, learnt alot from him 👏

[@owaistariq96]

One of the best podcasters i’ve come across, knowledge and can relate alot to the topics. Great to here Zee talk a man with alot of wisdom 🙏🏻

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@NVRMND-lg6jg]

Such an amazing podcast as always your guest lineup is the best thats why you are the best podcaster in pakistan ❤❤.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

❤❤

[@faizahmed6068]

Sorry. Strongly disagree. This podcast is not great because of the choice of guests but because shehzad, as a person, is well equipped and intelligent enough to hold an actual conversation with his guests. His warm personality also makes the guest feel comfortable and speak freely as well. You send the same guests to Nadir Ali's podcast and see what crap unfolds over there. After a point, you actually start feeling bad for the guests on Nadir Ali's show.

[@umairyasin1]

One of the best podcast. Do more this shehzad

[@atulyt2129]

India should compare with China. I want every Indian here to learn about top 20 startups of China. And then compare Top 20 Indian startups. Indian biggest startup is a over priced videos selling tuition. The teachers are not IITians or anything. Long way to go India.

[@ak99-to1gz]

IITians are overrated

[@raomubashir-sf6zf]

Sir jee, wonderful..... Please invite more people like him.....

[@alokranjan5410]

Good ....keep going

[@najmussaharbangash6924]

Shahzad sahib, usually your programmes are very good but this one is something out of depth for destitute people to consider; this successful entrepreneur does not recognise that he was born with a golden spoon (I should know because I have experience of living in Britain and benefitting from the system) so no surprise he made it. Unfortunately, the lot of general public will not be so lucky but yes they must all learn that "if you fail once, try try again."

[@tapasvibhardwaj]

Keep doing the good work sir

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌❤

[@jonathanevans3500]

the best statement in this podcast “jump in the sea”. best advice for a 20 year old,

[@harishsharma4978]

Awesome

[@asifgitaz4720]

Good podcast, and As a ex supporter of PTI. i believe Mr pm shebaz sharif doing good right now or ek direction bna rhe hai.pak k logo ko government ko support krna chiye also we need long term policy and benefits.

[@SmokeMamba-pi5xk]

Military ko kab hataoge ? Desh barbad kar rahe hai wo

[@NVRMND-lg6jg]

Please bring guest like these more ppl are just done with politics we want watch something through which we can learn and grow as an individual.

[@None_of_ur_concern]

1:02:35 Pakistan main real estate main tax nahi lagta h😮?

[@farooqwada4012]

1:17:00 pe banda kamal baat kar gaya

[@user-pt5wk7sy8p]

MIAN SAB Time was great 2013 - 2017 😢❤

[@NewChannel-zw7cs]

Bhai bring more business podcast

[@shahidazim]

He is interesting but he wasn’t speaking about realities maybe because of his honorary role in government. Especially I don’t like the statement about after 2018 everything is bad in Pakistan!!!

[@jssidhoo]

Good go getting attitude

[@muslim9061]

Shehzad bhai !!! Plz upload podcast with engineer Muhammad Ali and iffat omar, waiting anxiously for these

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Boss abhi toh record bhi nahee huee Engineer sahab kay saath

[@SmokeMamba-pi5xk]

@@ThePakistanExperience kab record kar rahe ho?

[@SurgicalStrike2.0]

He Sounds like Sohail Khan from India

[@amanshukla75227]

USA ka gold reserve dekhiye

[@hamoodurrehman4331]

He was belonging to middle clapss of your buddy Muzammil podcaster😂. He went to good schools, parents professional, had cars (not good ones😅) but still were not rich. 😂 I know many friends who started new business, failed and left with no money to restart a new business.

[@waleedabbas4996]

Honestly, Zeeshaan was completely right about Protein. I've always wondered the same about why we couldn't produce Whey. We produce so much milk and the imported products are extremely expensive so, there's clearly potential here.

[@waleedabbas4996]

@@thydarkarts Cheese consumption is increasing especially in city centres. There's quite a few small businesses that produce cheese. Eggs have increased 3x in price in the last year so, it's not sustainable especially if we're removing yolks. Secondly, why is there no plant protein available? You can use any lentil/legume or peas to make protein powder as well yet there are none available domestically.

[@waleedabbas4996]

@@AliAli-bc6ir Feel free to give me a small loan of a dozen crore's and I'll set up a processing plant.

[@waleedabbas4996]

@@thydarkarts Plant protein powders also have a significant amount of protein per scoop as most of the plant i.e. fibre is removed, only the protein component is left. Secondly, the reason people buy protein powders is because of convenience. It's far harder to make separate dishes like red meat or legumes just for additional protein when you can just use one scoop of protein powder with water/milk. Hopefully, your cornflakes idea works out well. Good luck with that!

[@mylord3003]

Bakeestan best startup includes lEt,jEm,jUa etc

[@affaksheikh9195]

The main journey how he built billion dollars company wo to discuss huwa en ni bat economic crises ki side pr nikl gae

[@maryamcheema8427]

Salam brother, can you please do a podcast on child trafficking in pakistan? 2M per year children are trafficked per year. Not sure what the stats are in pakistan. But for me this is the ultimate issue, please look into Tim Ballard and sounds of freedom. Surely there’s organisations in pakistan who are assisting in this? Children are our future!

[@fayezakamal3778]

One day is allowed to be angry and disappointed with the people that stab you. Next day you move on, and up. Been there, done that. Got the T Shirt

[@umararshad2601]

after watching his views on Pak economy, i can safely say he has no idea about how things work here, agar yahan baith kar wohi ghisi piti line bolni thi k "ap ne Pakistan ko kia dia" to Shahzad bhai mujhy bhi bula lo, mai entrapreneur nahi hun lekin local problems par in se zada grip rakhta hun.... i thought i would learn something interesting today, but it was just a classic "i, me and myself" kind of BS....

[@brewingmemories]

1:26:50 Pakistani have nothing but black salt🧂we will see how much it is scaled in future 😂

[@freakyharris4485]

Uk born defence mai reh rahe thy bhai ye born successful tha bhai Pakistan ki 70 percent awam itni gareeb hai jin k liye khana afford krna bhi mushkil hai bhai

[@TahirDutch]

A lot of contradictions. Ristrictions on imports and talking about free trade. Why should we make sugar when imported sugar is cheaper. Ok let them produce sugar and textile but without subsidies. Why our money for biggies. In totality i respect this guy.

[@anildhande7337]

we need more episode like this keep it up sehzad👍

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@sumairabi9211]

Pakistan a sleeping giant. Inshallah Pakistan will rise. It is our destiny! Great interview

[@MehrozRAna]

I wish the establishment should put puppet in power in 2018. Pakistan was going on right track but but tabdeeli ka keraa ta.

[@ashwanigoel9105]

India has - 100 private $1B + Unicorns, generating a revenue of $36B and are worth $ 360 B , a 10x multiple. Interestingly, India has - 280 public $ 1Bn+ companies, generating a revenue of - $1.4Tn and are worth $2.7Tn, a 1.9x multiple. Private markets are clearly yet to correct

[@yasirali-pr4vs]

so?

[@gnxtpankaj]

He is that uncle jo sirf motivational quotes bakta hai. Isko duniya me kya chal raha hai isko koi khayal nahi hai. Apne he world me mast hai ye ..😅

[@Mysticrohit]

A billion $ company , could not find the valuation for his company anywhere !! I doubt

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Company has done transactions worth over billion dollars - not the net worth of the company itself.

[@Mysticrohit]

@@ThePakistanExperience In that case , your video caption is quite misleading. I was close to 100% certain that no home grown Pakistani company is worth a billion and also his company is not exactly a Pakistani company anyway .

[@aqvines2914]

@@Mysticrohitbtw Engro is a billion dollar company

[@adeelakif814]

looking like a saif ali khan

[@Malhotra69]

India per capita is higher than Bangladesh as per latest IMF report ... Thousands of Bangladeshi immigrants are coming to india illegally, and doing cheap labour.

[@voidabinitio]

Is he the same guy who appeared in UK Apprentice show and made a biggest bhund by mixing guitar with oud

[@qaiser4u007]

I will spread him in few points : points lost abhi sona chahiye

[@biggiestud9451]

Shehzad mot bc788 wese hi muqable par aa jata hae

[@Arvindchauhan-qv6gd]

Another Gujju lineage 😂😂😂😂 had to be successful.. in the league of extraordinary gentlemen of Gujjus like Ambani, Adani n the list goes on....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅

[@lanoklom9697]

What minute is that on in this podcast?

[@Logicsupersedes]

Who said he's a gujju?

[@bharatkapoor4062]

@@KD-ih6bs income inequality is also very high 10% riches have 50% wealth of india

[@dharmeshparikh7837]

​@@bharatkapoor4062income inequality is not an issue USA has higher income inequality than India. But USA has higher per capita income .In India we have issue of per capita income which is extremely low. May be after 10-15 years, we can have a more clear picture how much middle class income has increased in India. Because you need to have higher per capita income with such huge population.

[@papaji1995]

His lack of education comes through clearly,mostly a street smart person also known as ‘jugaaru” He has limited knowledge on this subject,I don’t blame host for bringing him because pool is so small where is he going to bring his guests from he has to run his podcast business also.

[@anambutt8127]

Insan kitna maghroor hota hai. Achi kismat ka sehra apni mehnat k sar sajata hai 😅

[@AS-jo8qh]

Gujarati hai to obviously business hi karega..unke parents unhe job karne ko kahega?

[@YoutubeWatts]

Easier to be rich, when your parents are multi millionaires 😂

[@hdsz7738]

lmao I'm also from university of Nottingham

[@waleedabbas4996]

Was it worth it? A younger cousin wants to go there.

[@hdsz7738]

@@waleedabbas4996 imo there are better unis out there to consider. But if not those, University of Nottingham is already a great uni, ranks very high and I had a wonderful experience, AH

[@humayunbabar6637]

Bhai yeh adhi adhi wali sariyan na maro karo motoo honestly your sense of humor is so low app k clients ko btao ga adhi adhi oh pleasee gollooo

[@anambutt8127]

Ameer banday ko apni privilege kabhi nazar nahi ati 😂

[@AmanKumar-bp1zf]

Real estate business doesn't do anything good for humans 😂

[@nusrathuma183]

Podcast ka host aik bilkul gol mol sa bubbloo hai. 😂

[@mpqw]

Muslim with a Tattoo. Interesting😳

[@adnanraza6892]

Taboo is okayish many Muslims have 😂

[@adnanraza6892]

Anyhow just wanted to let you know.

[@fayezakamal3778]

So much to understand and this is what is your takeaway?

[@mpqw]

@fayezakamal3778 I just said interesting, and this is your takeaway 😂

[@umararshad2601]

kabhi bolta hai 5 pound thy phir bolta hai mai 5k pounds kama raha tha, phir achanak Dubai chala gaya, lekin paisa koi nahi tha, to bhai wo 5 5k pound k bill kidhar gye? nationality uk ki, ghar defence mai, lekin ham bary saada log thy, bhai ap hogy bohat bary entrapreneur lekin ap ki story add up nahi ho rahi, aisi fake stories Elon musk ya bill gates banaty hain (its a well established fact) to un ka naam bhi bohat bara hai, ap par suit nahi kar rahi ye "ham bary ghareeb thy aur mai ne bara struggle kia" type stories

[@thehungrylecturer]

He lost me at, 'I had a British passport' I don't so the rest of the 'struggles' don't make sense to me😭😭

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Hes acknowledging his privilege

[@thehungrylecturer]

@@thydarkarts insha Allah 😁🙏

[@thehungrylecturer]

@ThePakistanExperience yes, I'll give him that😁

[@waleedabbas4996]

@@thydarkarts He didn't go in a kashti though. His entire family had a British passport and we don't know how they went there.

[@fayezakamal3778]

That's a bit of a cop-out statement

[@umer.on.youtube]

Qis qisam ki cheez hain yeh bhai saahab? Probs the worst guest Shahzad ever had.

[@kayaar00]

the host needs to get out of India's love affair. it's toxic.

[@Rahul_20000]

Love you brother shehzad

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Love you brother Rahul