Ibrahim Batla

QFI is to PTI was Saqib Nisar was to PMLN - none can be cheered and none of this is ok. Wasn't then, isn't now!

Since last year liberal commentators have constantly enabled this facism. They talked us down & called us youthia when we only tried to warn of whats to come. These people r now switching & acting appalled at the current state of injustice. Hope public remembers these charlatans.

Accepting reality is a good way to reduce suffering, but it only gets you so far. At some point reality just isn’t good enough, and then you can only reduce suffering by changing reality.

This is what oligarchy is about. Today just 3 Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street manage $20.7 trillion in assets. These 3 firms are major shareholders in 95% of S&P 500 companies. Democracy will not survive with this concentration of economic & political power.

I’m starting an incubator. Funded entirely by me. It’s called 8090. Tell us what enterprise software you use and my team and I will build you an 80% feature complete version at a 90% discount. We are using AI and offshoring to make this happen.

What is better than VC money? The answer is free money. And free money is what the current caretakers believe will help promote Pakistan’s startups. On Tuesday, caretaker IT minister Umar Saif launched govt’s first ever Rs2 bn Pakistan Startup Fund 🧵

We can’t even enforce the Monroe Doctrine anymore but we’re messing around in Russia’s backyard like we own the place.

Today we launched the Pakistan Startup Fund (PSF) which will invest up to Rs 2 Billion every year in Pakistani startups. The fund is structured as an equity-free capital to help close a VC round for a startup. PSF is designed to help a startup raise its first external investment. If you are a startup in Pakistan and a foreign VC is evaluating your startup for a $1 million investment, the VC only needs to invest $700k — the Pakistan Startup Fund will give you a grant of $300k to help close the round. We won’t take any equity/shares in your startup or a board position etc. PSF is designed to lower the risk for international investors to invest in Pakistani startups; once we have written you a cheque, we won’t hassle you at all .. betting on you and your VC investors to drive your success. With PSF we hope to create a value of at least Rs 50 Billion per year in the startup ecosystem in Pakistan.

Honestly if shan was the captain in our home series we would have definitely won (aag lagadi)