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00:00 Introduction
02:19 Early Life & Education
03:34 Why Computer Science?
05:31 Kids and Code: His Approach
07:25 Early Learning: What Kids Gain?
11:45 Four Years at LUMS
13:47 Post Graduation
14:14 Key Players in the Industry at that time
15:20 Joining Techlogix
17:00 The Work & Culture
17:40 Jaffer’s Work
18:22 Applying for Masters
19:34 His Blog: Source for Job offers?
20:36 Why leave Techlogix?
21:35 Fulbright: How it works?
22:51 Why Carnegie Mellon University?
24:15 Getting Married before Masters
25:14 Young Couple's Move to the USA
26:06 Coming back to Pakistan
27:15 About PosterMyWall
29:33 The Launch
20:06 The First Sale
30:15 Kickstarting it: How?
31:42 Hiring the first team
33:05 Navigating Self-Questioning
36:18 Realizing the Potential for Scaling
39:55 Why not go for VC?
41:10 Current Data Insights & Revenue Model
42:28 Acquisition on the Horizon?
42:56 Competitors
44:50 User Acquisition
46:39 The Design Space & AI
51:40 Moving from the Web to the App
54:16 Why did they overlook iOS?
55:54 Product Businesses in Pakistan
57:01 Sevices vs. Product
58:44 Circling back to Product companies in Pakistan
59:50 Analyzing the Pakistani Market in Depth
1:08:03 Talent Challenges
1:11:13 Normalising Remote Work
1:13:21 Need for Aggressive Leadership?
1:21:12 Plans Beyond PosterMyWall
1:26:44 Pakistan of 2050
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