E03 Building Pakistan with Mr. Salim Ghauri (NetSol, CEO/Founder)

Building Pakistan with Benje Williams

Mr. Salim Ghauri is Founder and CEO of NetSol Limited, one of the first and now largest software houses in Pakistan. What's incredible about Salim Saab and NetSol is not only that they have helped catalyze an entire industry in Pakistan, but the way in which they've done it: through both strategic insight and perhaps providential circumstance, they built an invaluable product when most emerging tech companies in Pakistan were just focused on services. The product was initially a financial tool they built for Mercedes Benz to provide better financing to their car buyers, but somehow NetSol was able to maintain the rights for this product and now sells it at over $20 Million USD per license. NetSol was also one of the first Pakistani companies to go public on Nasdaq, and then weathered the dot com crash, managing to not only survive but eventually thrive into 1,800+ employees, $100M projects and a pretty amazing story that we dig into with Salim sb. *Building Pakistan is brought to you by the team at Amal Academy (amalacademy.org), with support from +Acumen (plusacumen.org) as our distribution partner. Illustrations and production editing are by Awais Farooq (Amal Academy). Music is provided by Danny Roberts (dannyroberts.com), Lydia Cole and Ryan Baxley.