Starting from zero with eyes open to a changing world

A Warm Place That Wasn’t Warm Enough

Muzamil opens by welcoming viewers to another video, this time from California. He spent six weeks in Seattle, in Washington’s northwest, where Microsoft and Amazon are headquartered. Seattle is one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in America, but “the weather there is very sad,” he says. He describes constant clouds and rain, the kind that can trigger depression. He preferred California instead. “I actually came to San Jose. My brother lives here. So I will stay with him for the next six weeks,” he explains. He plans to visit San Francisco and explore what the Bay Area has to offer, inviting any viewers nearby to connect.

A Life Built Over Years

For context, Muzamil shares what he left behind. Around 2022, “I was running a successful podcast channel. I had a team inside my house of 10, 12, 15 people and staff were present.” He had a driver, a cook. “I passed my time comfortably. I had multi-million rupee income. And you all know, in the sense of the world at that time, Pakistan was comfortable.” His network was so strong that he felt no one he needed to meet was out of reach. He had built something significant through many years of work. His financial, professional, and social life felt settled. “I was comfortable and I had made it this way,” he says.

But then something shifted in the information he was consuming.

Sensing What Others Ignored

Guests on his podcast started asking if he was paying attention to what was unfolding globally. Muzamil realized the world was changing fast, and in three distinct directions. The first was geopolitical. The Ukraine-Russia war was beginning, and while it seemed silent at first, he sensed it would expand and shape global outcomes. The second was political and scientific: anticipation of sovereign debt crises and financial reset scenarios he had read about in books by thinkers like Ray Dalio. The third was the emergence of artificial intelligence and a new industrial revolution. “The sound of revolution was starting to sound,” he recalls. A friend told him, “Brother, you’re about to experience something very revolutionary. This is going to happen and everything will change again.”

The signals were there. The world was accelerating in ways Pakistan could not shield him from. “It felt like the world was really changing,” he says. “I felt very clear and very fast” shifts coming, in three big areas where he wanted to watch closely.

The Dubai Interlude

“I wanted to look outside of all this noise and really understand what was happening in the world,” Muzamil explains. This is why he moved to Dubai and stayed for two years. “I spent quite a bit of time there. I slowed down the work to an extended vacation type, yet I was still working from Pakistan.” He kept his core team lean, letting many people go. “I was spending my time studying, researching. What is happening? What are these changes? How could they possibly affect us, you know, people all over the world?”

He loved Dubai. His family loved it. But after two years, he realized his long-term goals were not aligning with staying there. “Dubai has many professions too. Many boxes in Dubai,” he says. He needed to move forward, and Dubai was not the right place. He had received a golden visa, a kind of permanent residency, but it was not the right move.

Four Reasons to Move

He wanted to explain why he chose to come to America. Muzamil has four clear reasons he structured around his life goals.

“First, I put all of my income. I want to dollarize it. I want to really be a global citizen? The dollar is at least for now the global currency. And I want to make sure that my earnings from all of these are in dollars. So I don’t get stuck at any given time. I can hedge my beds. It’s a risk I had when I was in Pakistan. When I was in PKR, I did this for one and a half months. It came and my net worth and my savings were cut in half. Because rupees fall. I don’t want this to happen again. So I want my income to be dollarized.”

Second, he wanted to globalize himself and his family. He wanted freedom of movement, the ability to ensure his children could go anywhere they wanted, if and when they needed to. “We want to ensure I can live as a global citizen. My passport is important. And for that I wanted to go to a destination that globalizes me. My whole family is in America.”

Third, he wanted to reconnect with his roots in technology. Muzamil studied computer science. He won an all-Pakistan software competition at age 19. He was very good at technology, but then fell into media around 2011 and found success there. Now he feels the pull again. “I definitely feel that now I have the sense, yes content is very good. You know digital media is amazing. But technology has a lot more interesting opportunities. One more time new technology is coming in. And because of that, and also because for people like me who have been disconnected for the past 10 years. The capability gives an opportunity to use these tools and a lot of it without effort, really benefit technology value creation.” He wanted to study it, read it, and come back to it.

The last reason was about value creation itself. “I was tired of the reason I wanted to go to technology was because the value you can create. Through automation, through AI is faster and much more. How old can I be? If I am providing productivity to humans if I am doing this I will give you 100x1000x. I can only x by using technology. I don’t need to create a team of 100 people when I can find the right area where my domain expertise is and then I can find the right tools and I can build the right system. Which I think I can provide a lot of value.”

A Complete Reset

Muzamil has effectively walked away from all his earnings in Pakistan. “I have taken myself out of my comfort zone intentionally. I took out all of Pakistan earnings. Last year too it was a bit volatile. I did this effectively I ended everything. I have now the age of zero areas where I can earn. And I feel like this is a very big challenge.” But he is clear. He wanted to be sure he was not trading one set of comfort for another. “I actually really check. Can I use my technology roots and AI and your media distribution platform? Can I really create value?”

Building in Public

His big goal for 2026 is straightforward: start a new business from the ground up. Within 15 days, build the entire business structure. Within 30 days, start the business and generate the first sale. Within 60 days, earn $10,000. “Again this target I could definitely fail and I will certainly have many failures. I feel like humans learn from failure. I will learn from failure too. You will also fail. I will teach from here. I can claim somewhere this. I’m not doing that, brother, come let’s build together. And any big hit will shake and the world will change. I think this will be beautiful. This mission or this series’ purpose is that I really want to start a new one. My engagement happened. It could be that I am completely I should fail. You can be able to see. I think, brother, this AI, all this lime, this is just talk. But I think. To see it practically is better. Know if it feels like you, then it’s good that it’s not working. What was left maybe I’m making some mistakes. Maybe AI is making mistakes. But why not go through this? Why not become respectable and put it out there.”

He is excited to launch this series. In the next video, he promises, he will share how he is building the foundations of this new business with viewers watching in real time.

An Invitation

Muzamil opens the door to his audience. If anyone has ideas for the kind of digital business he should build, where he can show it publicly, he asks them to share in the comments. He has a general idea, but wants input. He closes with a call to subscribe, noting his goal to cross 1 million subscribers by June. He reminds viewers that aiming for the stars means you’ll land somewhere, and in these times, a growth mindset is essential. He asks viewers to like and subscribe, and thanks them for watching.