Selling Startup to Meta/Facebook! Ft. Awais Shafique | 387 | TBT

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Awais Shafique is a Product Manager at Meta and the Co-Founder of Stealth.

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00:00 Introduction
02:21 Early Life & Education
04:16 Studying in a ‘Different Crowd’
05:14 College Life: Friends, Studies & Experiences
07:05 Why Electrical Engineering?
10:28 Time in Nust
12:45 First Startup in Nust
17:16 The Product & its functionality
19:25 Taking it to Competitions
29:00 Looking Back: Media Spotlight & Self-Reflection
32:52 The Decision of Leaving Pakistan
37:32 Moving to Germany & Finding Work
38:57 Building a Game-Changing Product
41:47 The Genesis of the Idea
49:00 Their Division of Roles
50:13 The Story of Selling to Facebook
53:23 Clients
53:50 How it worked?
56:11 Revenue Stream
55:48 The Acqusition: How it happened?
1:01:28 Why Sell?
1:04:15 End to Third-Party Sales?
1:06:14 Joining Meta as a Product Manager
1:08:02 Circling back to the life journey
1:09:25 Changing Dynamics with Family and Friends
1:14:30 Startup Wisdom & Learnings
1:25:51 ‘Article Entrepreneurs’ & the importance of Value
1:35:14 Definition of a Startup?
1:42:21 Their Funding Story
1:45:07 The Multiplier Effect on Investment
1:45:35 Problems with the Startup Ecosystem
1:59:11 How he invested?
2:02:59 Pakistan of 2050?

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