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Thought Behind Things · Oct 12, 2022

The doctor you couldn't find in three days

Ehsan Imam and Asma Salman Omar, co-founders of MARHAM, trace how a personal medical crisis, a 40-page document, and a nine-minute Facebook conversation became a platform serving over 1.5 million patients across 121 Pakistani cities.

with Ehsan Imam & Asma Salman Omar

11 min read

A father’s illness and three days without a doctor

The episode opens with Muzamil introducing Ehsan Imam and Asma Salman Omar — the CEO and COO of MARHAM — as two of the oldest players in Pakistan’s health-tech space, funded by Indus Valley Capital. The conversation begins with early life, but it is a medical emergency that explains everything that follows.

Ehsan grew up in Lahore, the son of a Pakistan Railways civil engineer who taught himself FoxPro and built the railway’s first booking software. That early exposure to computers — a 386 machine with a 20 MB hard drive and Prince of Persia — set Ehsan on a path to computer science at what was then Punjab Institute of Computer Science, graduating in 2006. He spent his early career moving between local software houses and remote work for a Canadian company, eventually landing at Confiz Solutions where he led delivery on a Microsoft-backed project with Target, the second-largest retail chain in the world.

It was during that project that his father fell seriously ill. “I was unable to find a doctor for my father for like three days,” Ehsan recalls. The condition was internal bleeding requiring a urologist. After a failed surgery and a last-minute intervention prompted by his doctor sister who happened to be visiting Pakistan, his father recovered. Ehsan went back to the office the next day. A colleague mentioned in passing that he had found a doctor for his own brother through a tip Ehsan had shared. That small moment crystallised something larger.

“If I can tell one person, why not tell the whole world about this experience? How many people can we save by sharing our experience?” The thought did not leave him.

From Sargodha to Confiz: Asma’s parallel path

Asma grew up in Sargodha, the daughter of a Pakistan Air Force officer. The air force environment — disciplined, organised, with F-16s overhead — shaped her early sense of what structured systems look like. She taught herself Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and Premiere from online resources by her first year of college, around 2008 and 2009, and was already earning from freelance work before she had a degree.

She entered computer science at the University of Sargodha through a narrow window — the one year the university accepted pre-medical students into the CS programme, a policy it reversed the following year. By the time she arrived, she was already ahead of her class. “I was like asking relevant questions in the class,” she says. She won first prize at a national-level competition at FAST and another at an EME Olympiad, representing a public university from a mid-sized city against students from Pakistan’s most elite institutions.

What she developed at university was not just programming skill but a sensitivity to user experience — the gap between code that works and software that people can actually use. That combination would later define her role at MARHAM.

She joined Confiz in Lahore after getting married and relocating. It was there, in a brief early interaction with Ehsan, that the conversation that changed her trajectory happened. “Nobody ever asked me ever in my life — what is your goal in life?” She had no answer. She turned the question back on him. Ehsan said he wanted to build a product and see its highs and lows. She did not fully understand what he meant, but the interaction stayed with her.

The 40-page document and the name

A few months later, Ehsan shared a document. Asma’s laptop had been stolen two days earlier. She went to a fee centre, bought a new one, and opened the file. It was forty pages long — a detailed articulation of the problem, the solution, the vision, and a one-year plan that would ultimately take four years to execute.

The document referred to the platform as GMP. Asma read it line by line. When she called Ehsan to ask about the name, he told her he had not spent time on it. She had already thought of one. “This is cure for the pain of people — the burden that patients and their families carry. What name does that suggest? Marhm.” She proposed it. He accepted it.

Her decision to join was not purely rational. She had grown up watching military healthcare — organised, structured, accessible — and had always wondered why civilian healthcare was so chaotic. “Why can’t the rest of the people have it? And when I had that discussion with Ehsan, the reason was because no one ever worked on it. No one took ownership of that problem.” She committed to it for life.

The Facebook community and nine minutes

Before building any product, Ehsan ran a validation experiment. He created a small Facebook community called MARHAM, seeded it with a few artificial questions to signal the topic, and added friends. Within weeks it had 5,000 members, then 10,000. People began asking real medical questions and sharing information.

Then came the moment Muzamil describes as the product-market fit signal. A cancer patient posted his story on the group. People suggested doctor A, then doctor B. A commenter said neither treated that condition. More people converged on doctor C. The assistant of doctor C then commented that even doctor C did not handle that specific case and directed the patient to the right specialist. The entire exchange — from problem to resolution — took nine minutes.

“If this community had not been there, everything in the medical field is very lethargic,” Ehsan says. “An appointment three weeks away, the doctor tells you this is irrelevant, come back in another three weeks.” Nine minutes to solve what the system would have taken months to address was the confirmation they needed.

What MARHAM is in 2022

Later in the discussion, Muzamil asks for a plain description of the product. Ehsan walks through it: a patient searches a symptom, receives a list of relevant doctors with clinic details, ratings, and availability, and can either book an in-person appointment or consult online. After a consultation, the platform can arrange home sample collection for diagnostics and, in select cities, medicine delivery. “MARHAM is currently an end-to-end experience — from finding a doctor to booking an appointment, to consulting online, to diagnostics from home, to medicine delivery.”

The online consultation flow runs through MARHAM’s own app. Doctors use a parallel app called MARHAM Connect. Patients select a time slot, pay the fee, and enter a waiting area. The doctor appears, calls the patient through the app — similar to a WhatsApp call but with the ability to share reports and camera views — and simultaneously fills in an electronic medical record covering diagnosis, prescriptions, test recommendations, follow-up timing, and referrals. When the consultation ends, the doctor sends the prescription digitally to the patient. The prescription carries the doctor’s credentials and can be shown on a phone or printed for a pharmacy.

By the time of recording, 30 million people have used the platform. Between 1.5 and 2 million patients have been actively served. 26,000 doctors from 121 cities and towns are registered across 130 medical specialties. Online consultations account for 30% of all bookings, with the remainder being in-person appointments.

Bootstrapping to profitability, then raising from Indus Valley

Muzamil asks about the investment story. Ehsan is direct: “We are one of the startups that have achieved profitability. We are self-sustainable.” From 2016 to 2018 the team bootstrapped. By 2018 they were cash-flow positive. They ran the company on their own money until 2021 — five years — before approaching investors.

The decision to raise was not driven by desperation. It was driven by the recognition that proof of concept had been established and the next phase required capital for growth. Ehsan had an early conversation with Atif Mian — who had worked on LinkedIn’s growth — through office hours, which shaped his thinking about what scaling actually requires. MARHAM pitched to several local VCs. Most made offers. They chose Indus Valley Capital for shared values and relevant expertise. The round was $1 million.

“We don’t require a lot of cash,” Ehsan explains. “We don’t need to purchase stock or inventory. All of the money goes into the team and growth.” The investment produced 400% growth.

The business model for doctors is modular and flexible. Basic registration is always free — a deliberate choice to maximise accessibility, the platform’s founding objective. Appointment management, EMR, and enhanced profile features are paid add-ons. Doctors can pay a fixed monthly fee or a usage-based fee. Patients pay only the doctor’s consultation fee, nothing more.

The broken demand-supply problem and what Muzamil sees in the product

By the end of the conversation, Muzamil pushes into territory that is part product critique, part brainstorm. He notes that Pakistan simultaneously has 50% of young doctors unemployed and patients waiting weeks for appointments. “It blows my mind how that’s possible. It just seems like there is a broken system where there’s a lot of power consolidation within certain hospitals.”

He also observes that the current app is designed for a mature digital user — someone who knows what a gastroenterologist is, who can navigate a list of 140 specialties. The mass-market user, the post-2013 smartphone user from a smaller city, needs something different. “For me it’s really just about how you begin to play with data to identify what this person needs.”

He proposes a thought experiment: a stripped-down app — he calls it MARHAM Plus — with a single feature. A user opens it, taps call a doctor, and a verified but newly graduated doctor appears immediately, free of charge. The doctor guides the patient, refers them upward if needed, and builds a review profile through real interactions. As the doctor’s credit score rises, they move into paid tiers. “You distribute all of those patients into all of these available doctors, and suddenly demand and supply evens out. A lot of female doctors sitting at home suddenly hop on to the system. The price point drops to 100, 200 rupees. A doctor working five hours a day earns 150,000 rupees a month. For a young doctor, that’s pretty good money.”

Asma acknowledges the team tried a free doctor feature early on and had to pull it back because of abuse — people calling at midnight for non-medical reasons. The feature exists in the system but is switched off while they work on a fix. She confirms that product-led growth — using data and experimentation to progressively open the product to wider audiences — is the explicit framework for the next phase. “We know that the child in Layyah who has studied up to fifth grade should also be able to use this easily and access healthcare for their family.”

Whether that means evolving the existing app or building a separate product, Asma says, will be determined by data and user behaviour. “Data will guide us on how this will happen. But it will happen, inshallah.”

Pakistan in 28 years: values, culture, and a difficult question

Muzamil closes with a question he asks all his guests: how do you see Pakistan in 28 years? Ehsan’s answer is rooted in culture and values. He argues that no country grows beyond its people, and no people grow beyond their values. “The biggest treasure we have — the secret — was already given to us by the Prophet, peace be upon him. The question is what are we doing today that they were doing then, and we are not.”

Muzamil pushes back, not on the premise but on the mechanism. He points to Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia as places where Islamic scholarship is being conducted at an institutional, academic level — not through chains of religious patronage but through libraries, comparative study, and structured discourse. In Pakistan, he argues, that institutional layer is absent or broken, partly as a legacy of colonial disruption and partly because of how religious thought was weaponised in the 1980s and 1990s. “When were our educated Muslim class going to take a leadership role in something that is super important to them and not let it be run by people who have no business running it?”

The conversation does not resolve. It ends with a shared point: the solution is not secularism as a label, nor is it religion as a brand. It is reformation in how religion is understood and applied. “Making it a secular country is not going to solve it. Reformation in your understanding of religion is going to solve it.” Ehsan adds that Islam, properly implemented, is a framework — a balanced way of life — and that Pakistan’s challenge is not the framework but the failure to operationalise it through culture. The audience is left with an open problem statement and an invitation to propose solutions.

Full transcript
Muzamil

सारा खाबत देना ज़रा तो welcome back to another episode of thought behind things. ज़ाहिर भाई साहब मौजूद हो गया दो बहुत ही खास मेहमान जिनसे मैं बड़े अड़से से बात करना चाह रहा था ever since I found out कि इनकी funding हुई है Indus Valley Capital. You know very one of Pakistan's most I think they're the biggest as well but also one of the most mature जो बड़े अरसे से Pakistan में कर रहे हैं and so health tech generally I wanted to get into that really figure out कि क्या चल रहा है, किस तरह से चल रहा है. But these guys I feel like are one of the oldest players in the market and so I think this conversation is going to is was very long due but finally अलहम्मदिलाह it's happening. हमारे साथ मौजूद हैं आज मरहम के co founders. ऐसान इमाम who's the CEO and co founder of मरहम and then असमाह सलमान उमर who's the co founder and COO

Guest

of मरहम. Guys, thank you so much for being part the show. Thank you so much for having me मुज़मिल.

Muzamil

मैं थोड़ा सा conversation start करूंगा आसान आपसे. Early life के बारे में अगर मुझे बताएं, you know, where did you grow up? Education कहां से ली? And and sort of how did you come about this,

Guest

you know, this product? Okay, so मैं जो है लाहौर में पैदा हुआ और early education जो है मैंने लाहौर से ली एक local school से कोई बड़ा known school नहीं है, native school system तो वहां से ली and then I, grew up और लाहौर की गलियों में बड़ा हुआ और फिर जो university की education है या college की education है, I get into Punjab college and I graduated from University of Central Punjab in CS. कौन सी year में? 2006.

Muzamil

2006. And why it's CS? Because I mean early two thousand is not a very मतलब telecom का ज़ोर था कि यार हर बंदा बस telecom में घुस जाए, banking में घुस जाए and CS was something जो कि generally किसीयत दो किस्म के लोग होते थे.

Guest

मेरे जो father है, he was a civil engineer in Pakistan railways. Right. तो when I was in fourth class तो उनको computer का बहुत shock था. जब मैं fourth class में था तो उन्होंने हमारे घर के लिए एक computer purchase किया. अच्छा. जिसके ऊपर हम game खेलते थे. उसकी 20 MB की hard disk थी. And and which one was this?

Muzamil

Like in terms of क्या? Three eight six. अच्छा, so it's like the as old as you get. तो बड़ी बड़ी floppies होती थी उसके अंदर and all उसके that

Guest

ऊपर एक game होती थी Prince of Persia. Right. तो हम जो है वह original Prince of Persia. Original, yes. Oh, oh, Black and white, right? तो उसके अंदर tink tink की आवाज़ आती थी and all that stuff. तो हम जो है सारा बकेत भैंन भाई, I, I have nine siblings तो आप सोचिए कि एक computer के साथ नौ बच्चे, कैसे लगते होंगे? हां. तो my father used to, used to, you know, have a lot of passion about computer and programming. दो क्यों वह civil engineer थे लेकिन उनका interest था. तो एक दिन उन्होंने मैं game खेल रहा था तो उन्होंने मुझे बिठाया, उन्होंने मुझे बिठाया कि देखो

Muzamil

वह ने कहां से पढ़ा था?

Guest

I get it. I never, I never knew that. But he was, he was very interested part कि यार वह जो भी नई technology और advancement आ रही होती है, उसके बारे में वह उनकी जो education थी अपनी वह UET के पढ़े हुए थे. He was like one of the अच्छा topper अच्छा. UET तो उनको जो है वह उस तरह से mind makeup हुआ था. हालांकि उनका civil engineering में computer के साथ उस तरह से कोई ताल्युक नहीं था लेकिन वह FoxPro एक language होती थी. उसमें वह programming करते थे. अच्छा. और Pakistan Railway का जो एक booking का software था initially जो उन्होंने बनाया तो वह मेरे father ने develop किया था without having any you know Third party consultants and हां, तो ऐसे वह initially बोला तो उससे मुझे जो है ना this is something मैं चौथी class से सोचा था कि मैंने engineering बनना है and software ही बनाने हैं तो I will go for it. That's how I ended up. And you didn't have like an older because you were nine so कोई बड़ा बहन भाई नहीं गया था computer science में? No no no. खैर वह father की वजह से he has some influence कि भई हम CS में जाते हैं लेकिन उस तरह से जो जब वह वाला दौर चल रहा था तो वह उन्होंने कहा कि नहीं यार यह business is better और may be business and IT combination is better so मेरे कोई भाई हैं वो और बहन भाई जो हैं कुछ doctor हैं कुछ force में हैं कुछ जो है वो Very stable career sort of वल्लाह हां वल्लाह

Muzamil

And so you graduated in 2006?

Guest

Yep. How was that? How was UCP? UCP was fun actually to be honest. I think you guys were one of the earlier earlier batches there. नहीं नहीं, उससे पहले यह होता था UCP से पहले था एक college के fast and picks के नाम से fast के साथ होते थे fast picks. यह top की top की तो नहीं खैर मैं नहीं कह सकता लेकिन known IT colleges and universities थे. Then वह जो picks था वह Punjab Institute of Computer Science formally turned into University of Central Punjab. Ok. So, I mean वह एक evolution हुई? हां, evolution तो PICS काफ़ी पुराना था. It was not anew. तो वह फिर evolution होकर उन्होंने उसको सारे जो Punjab group of colleges थे उनको combine कर दिया और उसको university of, तो initially हम लोग वह थे जो Punjab Institute of Computer Science से पढ़ने वाले लोग थे. अच्छा अच्छा. लेकिन अब वह चूंकि कभी जानता नहीं है तो its name is like university of science. हां हां हां because UCP is is is much more recent I feel Yes, like, exactly. ज़बरदस्त and then you graduate so immediately afterwards did you find a job? What was the market like at the time? हां, उस वक़्त तो job like monitor साफ़ करने की मिलती थी कि आप monitor साफ़ कर लें या software कर लें. So it was, it was a difficult experience to get a job at that moment और उसके बाद जो है कि पता नहीं कहां से अजीब अजीब ख़यालात क्योंकि दिमाग़ में थे कि नहीं यार अच्छी job करनी है, internship नहीं करनी है और फलाना नहीं करना है. So, अपने आप को ऐसे ही मुश्किल में और डाल दिया. So it took me a while to find out a job and then, fortunately I hooked up to a international organization जिसका Pakistan में उस तरह से office नहीं था. Right. So the name is affordable programmers and

Muzamil

मैं remotely यहां से उनके साथ काम करता था. उनका कोई office नहीं था and it started working in Canada तो उनकी जो organisation थी Canada में थी. अच्छा interesting and how did you come about that because यह post COVID तो यह बड़ा हो गया I mean I graduated from fast and computer science and so I know a lot of my you know batchmates are now working directly but वह एक आज हम देख रहे हैं you know twenty twenty के बाद जब companies के अंदर ये sense भी वन गई है. उस time के ऊपर अगर थी भी तो it was more like a पाकिस्तानी जो वहां पर था उसको realize हुआ opportunity वो वापस आया उसने एक offshore setup तो बना लिया. But to actually sit here and be able to work with, did you ever go abroad? Like आपको कोई. नहीं, उस वक्त नहीं किया था. हाँ, so I mean उस वक्त आपका without going abroad or directly

Guest

connecting, how were you able to land this place? हाँ, वो जो हमारे, वो जो fortunately जो company वाले थे उनमें से कोई भी जो founders थे वो पाकिस्तानी नहीं थे. वो ठीक Canadian थे और other nationality के थे. लेकिन मुझे कैसे मिला तो चूंकि जब fourth class से आप computer use कर रहे हैं तो you are very used to afraid I was an artist कि भई मैं एक वह IT का बनता हूँ जिसको programming लिखनी रहती है. उस ज़माने में जिसको भी आप बताते थे कि आप IT पढ़ें तो उसकी windows खराब हुई होती है. है ना? तो वह कहते थे यार मेरी windows भी ठीक कर देना. Right. तो उसकी वजह से internet के ऊपर बहुत सारी surfing and, and help lot of people as well. Different forums के ऊपर study करना. Even, you know, before starting the job I was able to get to to develop a few websites and all that stuff. तो different forums के ऊपर पढ़ना, लिखना, वहां पर share करना. तो I find the opportunity interview हुआ, वह उनके test हुए, interview हुआ, there was a long time. मेरे पास भी कोई job नहीं थी. Maybe मैं समझता कि scam है. To be honest, अगर मेरे पास कोई job या opportunity, मैं समझता यह scam है. हां. यह तयारी में पता नहीं क्या चल रहा है ना? लेकिन चूँकि फ़ायदे थे तो सोचा कि भई try करने में क्या try करने में क्या हर्ज़ है? तो मुझे अब आज तक याद है कि वह खैर मेरी job हो गई. मेरा पहला दिन था और मैंने कितना मतलब something हम बंदा कहते कि मैं कितना stupid था. अभी भी हूं ख़ैर. लेकिन मैंने सीधा ही boss से पुछ लिया यार वाकई यह सही भी app है. He said कि एहसान don't worry about it. तो he said to me कि ok आप अपना जो bank है ना वह आप check कर लो salaries transfer होंगे. तो मैं जब bank में गया तो वैसे ही पैसे थे. That was That was the moment मैंने उसको कहा कि हां आकर बताया अपने lead को कि यार बाकी salary तो आ गई है. तो उसने कहा चलो फिर अब काम

Muzamil

And यह जो था यह how are you communicating with them? So, have their own software. So, ऐसा नहीं था हम कोई public software वगैरह में से Like, MSN messenger था ना ना ना ना ना. उनके अपने software से जिस तरह, जिस तरह MSN messenger होता था उसी तरह का उनका एक messenger था जिससे communicate करते थे. उनका ticketing system था जिसके through tickets बनती थी और tickets assign होती थी और clients के साथ काम होते थे. तो उन्हीं के software पर. Fascinating. Mean that in itself is a very interesting OK at the time as a first job. Yeah. You have no idea how the industry works. Have no idea कि industry में actually काम एक तो किताबों में आपने पढ़ा है ना और एक actual काम जो हो रहा है and you are able to learn all of that without क्योंकि यह बड़ा मुश्किल है actually आपने भी अब talent hire किया होगा.

Guest

एहसान जो है communication होती थी कि सारी ticketing की जो communication होती है कि हर ticket पूरी company को जा रही होती है. आपने उसे अपनी ticket select करनी होती उसके ऊपर काम करना तो हमारी company में female भी थी एक Pakistan से जो काम कर रही थी और इस तरह एक दो और लोग हैं. तो जो client आपको पता है USA में उनके लिए वह efforts बोलना और यह words a normal thing, right? Right. So, एक client ने वह इस type की कोई email कर दी and it went viral to the company and all that stuff. उन्होंने कहा कि यह आसान को दे दो. उस वक्त मैं by chance वेला था. ठीक है. Project नहीं था. तो उन्होंने कहा कि चल पीती है तू पहले. And वह एक मुश्किल moment था but but it has changed lot of things for me in the company because I was able to satisfy that client and away came it quickly. I was able to revamp, उसका problem solve करना and all that stuff. तो उससे यह हुआ कि I was able to get like जो जो first year था मेरा job का so I was able to get three promotions in the first year. अच्छा.

Muzamil

हां तो उससे बहुत सारी चीज़ें जो है वह. अच्छा यह भी बड़ा interesting है because it's an, it's, it was like a Canadian company तो आपको यह हो गया Pakistan में तो वह कहते ना कि आप चार साल, अब औचा काम कर ले लेकिन अब कोई चार साल पूरे नहीं हुए हैं अभी मैंने लगा कि age

Guest

is also very वह thing कि ये बड़ा agile culture है west का कि जहां पर they find value so they reward that value and they allow for that as well. How long were you in this company? I forked like one and a half year into that company. And this was like a night job? Yes. तो problem यही था कि मुझे लगा हालांकि इतनी अच्छी opportunity कौन छोड़ता लेकिन मुझे लगा कि यार मेरी social life खत्म हो गई. हां. तो मैंने कहा नहीं यार social life is more important, काम तो होता रहेगा. How

Muzamil

old were you at this time?

Guest

Like I was 21, 22. अच्छा. हां, तो उस time पर I can understand. Yeah. So मैंने कहा कि यार मतलब दोस्तों के साथ ना चिर चैट, ना रात को गपशप, ना बैठना, ना मुलाकात, यह तो नहीं चलेगा. हां. तो I, I said thank you to that company and joined a local company here in Pakistan जिसका नाम Nexperja है. I worked there for a while, like, one and a half year there and then joined another local company. Clients. I worked there for, like, four or five years. During this time, यह जो चार पांच साल का worked out, तो I was pushed into management very quickly. Initially जो मेरा experience था पहली company के साथ उसमें communication बहुत ज़्यादा involve थी. बहुत सारी चीज़ें तो they were like कि मैं soon बहुत जल्दी management वाली side पर आ गया दो कि अच्छा मतलब वह जो chance दूसरा मिला वह भी बड़ा अजीब किस्म का chance था. I worked in another company तो वहां पर, I was hired as a as a engineer और जो due to some circumstances I become management and communication में मुझे जो है बहुत ज़्यादा strength मिली. तो उसकी वजह से my career were pushed towards management more and more and more. जितना मुझे programming का शौक था, वह भी खैर पूरा हो गया था. मुझे पता चला कि यार बस यही होता है. इतना इतनी ही game है. तो फिर उसके बाद मैंने management की काफ़ी और सा and then I joined Confizz Solutions in 2013 or 1413 maybe mid thirteen. I worked there for a while as as as a project manager, senior project manager for a while. And and even during my career, I was though que मैं different companies के साथ काम कर रहा था, लेकिन I was able to get a chance to work with Fortune 50 companies. Like, I worked with PepsiCo for a while and then I worked with Ingenico. I worked with, like, Microsoft for a while. So in different companies के साथ मैंने काम किया और then I worked in Confess till 2016.

Muzamil

And that's when sort of मरहम started. Then मरहम happened. Right. And so we're we're gonna talk about that as well. But I'm gonna switch it up a little bit now to असमा. I'm sorry, but there's a काम always waiting here. I wanna have an understanding again of your early life and and really how did you, where did you grow up, what where did you get the education from and, you know, क्या हुआ? Yeah, sure. Thank you. So, I was born in लाहौर primarily but my father was a Pakistan Air Force officer.

Guest 2

So we like moved to you know different cities and then we lived for quite a few times in सरगोदा. अच्छा. So मैंने सबसे ज़्यादा जो अपना बचपन या जो you know early years वो सरगोदा में गुज़ारे और वो it was a very interesting city because वो air force का एक माहौल था and it was like शाहीनों का शहर है and you know. सरगोधा I mean I feel like is known for air force and Yes and yes yes. आपके F sixteen's है वहां पर, वहां पर exercises हो रही है so वो एक बड़ा एक interesting किस्म का environment था बचपन में. Very disciplined as well और वहां पर गुज़ारा वह air force के schools में ही education हासिल की. Sir बोला में एक बड़ा मशहूर college है air base. वहां से जो है वो अपने you know FSC की वहां से और लेकिन इसके अंदर दरम्यान में जो है वो मेरे जो वाले साहब थे मतलब मेरे like in like I was in like seventh or eighth class तो मेरे जो वाले साहब थे उनके office computer होता था. Right. So that was you know like quite a fascination कि यार यह कैसे चलता है? क्यों चलता है? कैसे इसके ऊपर क्या काम होता है? So मेरे जो parents थे वह बड़े interesting किस्म के थे. उनका यह था कि यार बच्चे जो है वह नई नई चीज़ें try करें. So like I was in my like ninth class जब you know we got a computer in our home और वो एक बड़ा exciting stage थी की ये computer चलो घर में आ गया. So वो वहां से फिर you know we get a chance to explore that और like I was like in my first year जब मुझे graphic design, websites बनाना और you know like those basic skills I was like able to learn that and I was like working I started professionally working from my first year. अच्छा. Because I was like able to learn those kind of basic skills on the And what year was this? Was like 2008,

Muzamil

2009. अच्छा. So what tools were you using at the time? Photoshop,

Guest 2

HTML, CSS, Premiere, इस किस्म के tools. ये सारा आपने online सीखा था कि कोई. सब कुछ online सीखा था. Interesting. 100%. So Google और उस दिनों में उस किस्म के मैं movies देखती होती थी. Steve Jobs के ऊपर movie, Bill Gates के ऊपर movie. Design अच्छा कैसे काम करता है? Graphics कैसे बनते हैं? Website से products बनते कैसे हैं eventually? So, यह कुछ early time था और like super obsessed with programming and all of those things. So, इस तरह करते करते you know initial start था. Interesting. And university कहां पर चाहिए आप? So university में भी, so, मैंने जो university से, the Sturgona University से तालीम हासिल की थी और वह primarily वहां से Two तो business के questions. है वैसे होना चाहिए. So I got into pre medical primarily. So लेकिन मेरे तो chemistry बिल्कुल समझ नहीं आती थी. मुझे biology भी उस वक्त बिल्कुल समझ नहीं आती थी. So and and and मेरा बहुत interest था towards computers. So वो मैं करती रही और मेरे FSE के part one में काफी काम number आए और फिर part two आ गया. Part two के जो papers थे उसके अंदर you know like unfortunately I had to suddenly अल्लाह की तरफ से मुझे appendix का you know एक sudden मसला हुआ और मैं paper नहीं दे पाई you know so I got a year as well उसमे भी मैंने computers पे ही काम किया so मेरे parents का ये था कि यार अच्छा तुम pre medical में तुम हो अब किधर जाना है न? So मैंने था मैं I was like looking for this की अच्छा maybe I will like study architecture or I will like study you know something like क्योंकि pre medical वालों को बाल में समझ नहीं आती है कि किधर जाएंगे तो I was like applying की चलो अच्छी अच्छी universities देखते है ये करते है. So one day my father you know अब मेरे घर वालों को ये लगता था कि यार computer की तरफ कुछ ज़्यादा ही चली गई है मतलब पढ़ी ही पढ़ा भी नहीं इतने अच्छे तरीके से ये क्या कर रही है? So मैंने उस time पर ये किया कि मेरे father की कोई official कोई assignment थी so he was like working on that तो मैंने कहा की मैं आपको इसके ऊपर help कर देती हूँ so I help him with that presentation and all of those things and when he presented you know that you know जब अपने seniors को तो उन्होंने कहा की अरे आपने इतना professional किससे कराया है? Who was that person? So my father was very surprised उन्होंने कहा कि यही असमान है किया है. So my father came back to home and he said to me कि तुम computer ही पढ़ लो. तो मैंने कहा कि यार यह तो बहुत exciting बात है. So at that time कोई different जो universities थी यह pre medical के students को computer science में नहीं लेती थी. यह pre engineering के ही background के students को computer science में लेती थी. सरोगोधा university का वह आखिरी साल था. वह by chance वह साल था जिसमें वह pre medical के students को ले रहे थे और उनका यह था कि यह calculus में fail हो जाएंगे 100%. They cannot shift like that कि यह pre medical के background से आएं और आकर वह derivation दो ये सब कर लेंगे. So मैंने कहा कि नहीं आप मुझे try करने दें, I'll, I'll do that. तो वह तब तक HEC की तरफ से approved था अगले साल वह बंद हो गया. अच्छा sweetheart में गया. I got into this side and वह फिर अलग से. But that was that's very interesting considering कि अब तो खैर STEM के अंदर you know there's there's an entire thing about women in tech and and and you know more and more women are now beginning to come into tech as well primarily because वह awareness इतनी ज़्यादा है but this is you're talking about 02/2010

Muzamil

I'm assuming. Yeah, 2010 में मैंने अपना computer science किया था. And उस time के ऊपर मुझे याद है like I started my computer science in 2010 as well and मैंने कराची में किया था तो हमारी चालीस के batch में मेरा ख़ाली चार लड़कियां थीं. And then I left that program because कराची was I mean it's a difficult city to live in. I'm from Islamabad. So I left that into two months later took a year off and then 11 में I started again. Through it and somehow they topped all of the classes as well but but for you like how how difficult was it like was it a very simple thing कि चलिए computer science, computer science करना अच्छा था university गोदार में जाकर मैं कर लूंगी what was the ratio like the four years as a as a woman in tech Was it something that just, I mean, for you it was just like ठीक है, मैं कर रही हूं या was it something जिसमें you were like, as a woman, it was more difficult compared to your male colleagues, for example?

Guest 2

अच्छा, so for me it was different in this way कि I was already ahead, way ahead my class. अच्छा. So when I joined that, मैं उस पक्का already काम कर रही थी. So I was like working with, I was like making websites, I was like into this के you know logos कैसे design होते है. I was doing freelancing work, I was like earning at that time. Right. So when I got there so मुझे programming. You were already a star there? Already a star already a star there. Was like asking relevant questions in the class. I was like यह कैसे होगा और बिल्कुल so even programming में भी super interested. Maths का मुझे था तो even at that so मैं research में शुरू से ही जैसे you know शौक था तो मैंने देखा कि अच्छा खान academy kids की या खान academy kids से चलो मेरा बेटा use करता है but खान academy जो था उसकी maths की ना वो सलमान खान की बड़ी अच्छी classes थी कि calculus के different concepts को वो बड़े आसान तरीके से बयान करते थे तो मैंने वहां से मैंने concept समझे और I was also like a book reader kind of person तो मैं उन लोगों में से थी जो c plus plus किताब को properly पढ़ लेते थे फिर they were like very much into this कि जो लोगों ने कहा है वो आप करके जाए. तो because मैं computer के साथ बहुत अच्छा time spend करने में comfortable थी. So I was way ahead in my class. I was very focused कि मैंने इसको सीखना है. मैंने अपनी skill को मज़ीद sharp करना है और so because I loved that. So मुझे तो बिल्कुल भी कोई मसला नहीं हुआ था. And how were your four years if you were to rated

Muzamil

in university of सरगोधा?

Guest 2

Super amazing, super amazing. So जैसे जो university है ना I think उसका एक major किरदार इस चीज़ में होता है कि वो आपकी personality को shape करती है in your, in your those early years. So मुझे university of सरगोधा ने बहुत confidence दिया in terms of this के my teachers were very appreciative of you know the work I was putting in. My class was very respective of the fact what I was doing. They were like inspired. वो पूछते थे अच्छा इसको कैसे कर सकते है. Like healthy competition obviously फिर आपकी class में build होना शुरू हो जाता है. वहां पर उसी किस्म वही बच्चे थे जो कि excel करना चाहते थे in this field कि हम computer science को कैसे इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं. So वह वहां पर इस तरह से था और फिर in every in every course in every class I was like into this कि अच्छा कैसे इसमें excellence लाई जा सकती है? कैसे कोई नई language सीखें? Oh कैसे web आती है तो c plus c sharp सीख लेते हैं? Softwares कैसे बनेंगे? Java को देख लेते हैं? Android app कैसे बनेगी? Networking कैसे होती है? University में मुझे cryptography का बहुत shock था कि codes आप कैसे solve करते हैं? You know how you solve those puzzles के because मैं air force का background था तो मुझे होता था कि आगे चल के ना digital warfare होगी. Right. तो digital warfare में क्या किया जा सकता है? तो इस किस्म का experiences थे. Then I got also अब और इस during this process जो मेरी core जो strength build हुई that was this के लोग बहुत अच्छे program तो काफी सारे लोग लिख लेते थे लेकिन उनको ना बेहतरीन तरीके से खूबसूरत तरीके से design नहीं करना आता था लोगों को. We haven't seen this yet इतनी छोटे बच्चे से हमने ऐसे काम नहीं देखे करते हुए लेकिन वो एक बहुत वो एक exciting experience था उसने मुझे user experience वाली site पर ये feel कराया की programming की site पर तो बहुत लोग काम कर रहे है लेकिन user experiences, design, how people will be using those software उसके ऊपर लोग काम नहीं कर रहे है. So I excelled on that side और फिर उसी दौरान मुझे university की तरफ से दो like national level competitions में अंगाल, Pakistan universities के जो होते उसे participate करने का मौका मिला. I participated in one that will happen in EME Olympiad होता है एक. I won a prize there. फिर fast में एक national level Pakistan का competition हुआ था. उसे तो बड़ा यह भी था कि यार हम नहीं जीतेंगे आप कैसे जीतेंगी? तो मेरी university का कहती अभी आप हमारी उस आसमा को नहीं जानते. Let her you know come in the game. So वो I, I won there as well. I got the first prize और इस किस्म के भी you know exciting and adventure

Muzamil

सरगोधा you know मतलब university of सरगोधा is a public university? Yes, it's a public university. How old is it? So it like 2000

Guest 2

I think '12 में या 2002 में इस तरह का कुछ उनका हिसाब है मुझे अब exactly नहीं याद लेकिन it was an early university और जो है वो पूरा जो region है हमारा उसके लिए that was the first university ever there और बहुत सारी वहां पर even मतलब मर्द हज़ार बी, हवा तीन बी या जो students थे उस तरह से थे कि वो उनकी वो family के पहले बंदे थे जो पढ़ने के लिए आए थे. Right. So they were like very into this कि अच्छा हमारे like because वो एक agricultural किस्म का इलाका है उसके आसपास का so people like very much into this कि अच्छा हम learn करें या हम skill सीखें या हम क्या कर सकते हैं. तो वो that was a major uplift for that you know that region और मैं वहां पर even लोगों को because ये होता था कि how we can make money out of it तो even I used to give you know classes to masters के वो हम sessions करते होते थे कि अच्छा how you can you know do freelance? आप कैसे इसको तोड़ेंगे? कि आपने कैसे अपने present करना है? अपना portfolio कैसे बनाना है? आपने कैसे reach out करना है? How then you deliver on time? तो इसलिए हाथ से वह एक बड़ा exciting experience था. Interesting and and it's been eight years since you graduated.

Muzamil

आपके ज़हरे दोस्तियां होंगे वहां पर. Do you think there has been an impact in terms of आपने कहा ना बहुत सारे लोग जो हैं वह first time, first generation university

Guest 2

students थे. Yes. ज़ाहिर उसके पास उतना jobs पकड़ी होंगी. वह किया होगा तो can you see a difference in terms of their family incomes, in terms of their social mobility? Yes, definitely बिल्कुल. Even उसमें से बिल्कुल जितना बाकी universities के लोगों के साथ होता है वो you know they move to bigger cities, you know उनकी families उनके साथ शहरों में move करने लग जाती है, उनमें से जो लोग मज़ीद you know ambitious होते है उनमें से बहुत सारे लोग you know like you know got masters degrees from you know abroad as well so वो बिल्कुल ऐसी तरीके से था. Were like working they were like you know started doing and excelling at things. Right right right. So I am gonna bring it back to ऐसा आनंद. I gonna I want to have an understanding of the मरहम story right? And because this is sorry, एक second. उससे पहले you graduated and you started your first job at? Confess. And that's where you met Yes, that's where I met ऐसान. And so 14 में you started in fourteen or fifteen? No. So after 14 जिस तरह Pakistan में होता है I like got married और I then moved to लोहौर. अच्छा. So I moved to लोहौर. I took a break for like three four months and then I like applied for a few places in लोहौर and I loved the culture at Confizz and how they were like doing you know big projects like Microsoft, Intel, Ingenico. So I was like this is the place I want to work and I had you know मेरी portfolio था high plus like extensive user experience perspective से एक वह process वह run करते हैं but अलहमदारी लाई got there and that was good This your first application or did you apply to multiple companies and then sort of chose? I applied at two companies and one of them was Confess so I got there and I wanted to get there so So that's how it

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आसान how did sort of मरम happen? Because अभी जो मैं sun रहा हूं मुझे मेरे लिए थोड़ा सा confusing है कि एक startup कैसे हो गया और दवाइयों का दवाइयों से related you know health से related कैसे हो गया particularly because you know, my understanding would have been कि आप एक software house run कर रहे होते हैं, एक IT company run कर रहे होते हैं. You both hardcore sort of software folks and, you know, Pakistan में अगर वह path को मैं extrapolate करूं तो वह normally यह होता है कि यार मैंने conference में आप घुस गए ना तो मैंने तीन साल conference किया उसके बाद मैं सीधा बाहर. बड़ा मुझे rarely मिलेगा कि एक अच्छी university का student who has a a fairly good understanding of the industry or the work वह Pakistan में बैठा हुआ है और Pakistan में एक career plan कर रहा है. Like, you could have gone to, let's say, Europe or or or, you know, The US and especially you. जिस time frame में आपने graduate किया है, उस time frame में तो there was a boom happen, right? Like the Facebooks of the world and the Snapchats of the world were popping up and and there was a huge demand for for पाकिस्तानी engineers. How did you convert from core IT professionals to getting into care? मैंने एक business चलाना है. चलो back by digital है, back by sort of IT ही ऐसा है but,

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हां, sure. So, अगर हम मरहम की बात करते हैं तो मरहम was not a planned startup. ऐसा नहीं था कि we were planning for it और मैंने उसको बहुत plan किया कि मैं यह करना चाहता हूं. As a as a IT graduate and into this industry, I was very happy and satisfied with my job और घर में भी कोई ऐसे problem नहीं चल रहे थे कि यार मतलब बहुत ज़्यादा पैसे कमाने या बहनों की शादी करनी है, etcetera etcetera. So I was, like, fortunate enough to not having those challenges. तो and, fortunately, in Confiz, there was, like, a big engagement going on, which is with Microsoft. And and and, fortunately, I was leading that effort from a development perspective. So, there was a big project going on with Target, which is the second largest retail chain in the world and हम उसके साथ कुछ project कर रहे थे Microsoft की तरफ़ से और मैं उसकी delivery को देख रहा था. हुआ यह कि जब हम वह project कर रहे थे उसका एक definitely एक pressure भी है, एक एक एक fun भी है, एक thrust feel होता है आपको, right? कितने millions को roll out जाना है, इतने users का impact है, इसकी यह testing होगी, यह होगा वह. तो वह सारा कुछ चल रहा था और हुआ यह कि back in Pakistan मेरे जो father थे वह थोड़े बीमार थे और जो है And you were based out of Pakistan at the time? And were, I was based in Pakistan क्योंकि मैं local company के साथ काम कर रहा था तो Microsoft invited me to there as well but basically I was based in Pakistan. ठीक है. तो जब एक आप तरफ देख रहे होते हैं कि हम दुनिया बदल रहे हैं, right? और क्या कर रहे हैं बेहतरीन? और दूसरी तरफ यह है कि I was unable to find a doctor for my father for like three days. तीन दिन मैं कोशिश करता रहा आपको. उनको जो है उस वक्त जो internal एक bleeding basically हो रही थी एक एक organ में. Right. तो that was challenge. तो हम specifically अगर हम देखें तो हम urologist को consult कर रहे थे. And then हमने एक doctor ढूंढ लिया, फिर हमने एक अच्छा doctor और फिर वह उन्होंने देखा, उन्होंने कहा इनकी surgery क्यों जो रहता है? We went for surgery, उनकी surgery हो गई और he was recovering from it. It took like approximately fourteen days कि जितनी देर में वह recover कर रहे थे, he was still at the hospital. सारी care हम अपनी तरफ़ से best of the best कह रहे थे. मेरी जो sister हैं, वह भी doctor हैं लेकिन वह Pakistan में नहीं होती तो by chance she was visiting Pakistan हां. अगर आप surgeries जो है वह ठीक नहीं हुई. अगर आप इतना करेंगे internal bleeding बढ़ रही है. यह तो emergency case है. मैंने कहा अच्छा फिर मैंने सोचा कि यार मैं इनकी बात सुनूं या इनकी बात सुनूं, कि यार यह emergency है. You need to understand कि he's in emergency को नहीं है. फिर हमने रातों रात उनको shift किया दूसरे hospital में, दुबारा surgery की और वह सारा experience हो. हां, वह surgery होने से उस वक़्त अलहम्दुल्लाह, वह ठीक तरफ़ हो गई surgery and last moment था but अलहम्दुल्लाह recovered तो I went back. मतलब मैं office आ गया अगले दिन. अब मज़े की बात यह है कि अल्लाह तालाह तरफ़ से सब कुछ चीज़ें ऐसी होनी होती. मेरी एक meeting थी तो वह meeting पर जो एक this is how it happened. तो उसने कहा कि अच्छा यार चल, सही है. वह चला गया. वह next day आया उसने मुझे thank you किया. उसका कहता है यार मेरा बड़ा अच्छा experience रहा. Doctor ने मेरे भाई को देख लिया and all that. अब उस moment पर मुझे एक बात try की कि यार अगर मैं आज technology के दौर में इसको बता सकता हूं तो why not? I can tell the whole world about this experience. Right? तो हम कितने लोगों को save कर सकते हैं अपना experience share करके, right? तो वह जो बात है वह मेरे तो यहां अटक गई and then thinking about more and more क्योंकि fortunately or unfortunately मैंने जितनी भी career में companies के साथ काम किया वह सारी US based या Canadian based company थी. जितना भी हमने काम किया वह सारा export हो गया, right? तो एक यह बात लगी कि यार Pakistan से पड़े हैं. यहां पर हमने सारा experience लिया है. तो Pakistan के लिए हम काम नहीं करेंगे तो कौन करेगा? तो that was the moment कि जो मेरे लिए बड़ा painful था कि यार मेरे पास experience भी है. मैं international इतनी बड़ी बड़ी companies के लिए कह रहा हूं कि जिनका solution ऐसे बनेगा लेकिन अपना यहां पर इतने बड़े problems हैं जिनमें मेरे अपने relative इतना suffer कर रहे हैं और वह लोग जिन्होंने मुझे help किया यहां तक पहुंचने में, वह सारे लोग, वह bus driver, वह rickshaw driver, everybody helped me to reach to that moment. Now मुझे यह education और सारा कुछ हो गया मैं इन सबको कह रहा हूं और मैं बाहर के लिए काम कर रहा हूं. Why not to work for them? Right. So, यह जो thought process जो है यह दिमाग़ में चलना शुरू हो गया कि यार यह क्यों करूं? क्यों करूं? क्यों करूं? तो again मेरा जो family background है मैंने आपको बताया कि मेरे father जो है government servant थे railway में, उन्होंने job की तो then it all happened. मुझे तो यह लगता है कि with that magical moment के अलाह ताला maybe he heard me or maybe he has given me that confidence initially and then he he blessed me with so many good people. अलहम्द अल्लाह जिन्होंने मेरे साथ इस objective पर connect किया. उन्होंने कहा यार why not? Let's work together onto it. And then finally, वह moment आया एक दिन कि मुझे वह confidence आया कि मैंने कहा यार let's do this. Right. तो फिर हमने क्या किया कि मैंने उस दिन का बस वह moment था और मैं उठा और मैंने अपनी company में resign दिया. And then there was a lot of conversation. Definitely, I was, like, face, on a few projects और face value definitely होती है. तो they were able to it कि भाई, क्यों ऐसे क्या है? सारी चीज़ें मतलब जो भी negotiation है. But I was more about कि यार मैं यह करना चाहता हूं. Then company has made me a brilliant offer. They were very very, conference is like one of the best places. मैं कहूंगा. तो उन्होंने मुझे एक यह offer दिया. उन्होंने कहा आसान तो यह करना चाहता है ना तो एक काम करते हैं. हम तुम्हें ना एक team बना देते हैं, ठीक है? तुम उनके साथ यह तो लगता है ऐसे कि हर बंदा समय तक यह दस हज़ार रुपए लेकर मेरी website बना दें. But but but the methodology behind a product is तो the first thing I did was initially and then मतलब यह जो पूरा plan लिखने के बाद जो पहली चीज़ की वह हमने Facebook के ऊपर एक छोटी सी community बनाई with the name मरहम और जो मरहम name है वह अस्मा has suggested name. तो बाहर हम उसके बारे में discuss करेंगे how. तो हमने पहली चीज़ यह की कि we we we put together a small community. मैंने Facebook पर community बनाई and that community उसके अंदर हमने थोड़ा सी तरह artificial type के questions भी डाले ताकि लोगों को पता चल जाए कि यह community किस type की और अपने friends और लोगों को उस community में add कर दिया. That community went viral और हमारे पास like in a few weeks they were like 5,000 members and then 10,000 members. People started asking questions and sharing information from there. तो वहां से हमारे पास already वह data और वह problem आना शुरू हो गया कि अच्छा problem क्या है? लोगों को information नहीं मिल रही. अच्छा जो information नहीं मिल रही वह दूसरे लोगों के पास है. तो हमने सोचा कि यार यह तो मज़ेदार चीज़ है and then सबसे बड़ी चीज़ यह है कि एक बड़ा magical moment हुआ कि जहां पर मतलब मैं आज भी उसको सोचता हूं तो मुझे goosebumps आते हैं to be honest कि किसी ने एक cancer का patient था. He shared his story onto मरहम का जो Facebook का group था उसके ऊपर और he was thinking कि वह a, first कह रहे a doctor है जो कि उसका इलाज कर लेगा. किसी ने उसको suggest किया b doctor. किसी ने करनी a, b. दोनों इस चीज़ को नहीं देखते. C doctor फिर then there are a lot of people who said कि नहीं यार c doctor is the right fit for you. And then वह जो c doctor था, उसका जो assistant था, he commented कि नहीं यह जो doctor है इस चीज़ को नहीं देखता and आपको इस doctor के पास जाना चाहिए और मज़े की बात यह है. आपको पता है कि यह सारी conversation कितनी देर में है अभी? Nine minutes. अच्छा. So that was something कि यार अगर

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यह community Medical ना होती field के अंदर तो everything is very lethargic, right? Like आप एक appointment लेते हो, आपको तीन हफ्ते बाद का appointment मिलता है, doctor साहब आते हैं आगे देखते हैं, यह तो irrelevant है आप. उधर pink bong हो जाओ फिर आप तीन हफ़्ते और लगाते हैं and then it's very unoptimized at the end of the day like it's a lot of wasted time for everyone. Yes.

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तो nine minute में एक चीज़ solve हो जाना was like कि यार अल्लाह तल्लाह का कितना sugar है कि I was able to help them out. तो वह वहां से हमने जो है initially product market fit को देखा और सोचा कि नहीं यार इसके ऊपर build करते हैं तो then that's how we started building to be honest. और उसके अंदर यह है कि then during this journey, they were, like, beautiful people who have joined मरहम just because they share the same objective. So, हमारी जो initial team थी उसमें जिन लोगों ने हमें join किया, फ़र्वाह हैं, आसमाह हैं, मूनम, वज़ा there are so many मतलब इतने प्यारे लोग हैं कि मुझे लगता है यह है कि, I cannot say even thank you to them और अगर मैं फिर से रहा आज यहां बैठकर यह सारी बातें में दा रहा हूं, story आसना रहा हूं, बड़ी कि यह हो गया, वह गया. लेकिन it's not me, it's basically all of them who were able to help me out in building this whole ecosystem in MMK. And so if I were to talk about the ecosystem, and I'm gonna, you know, go to, ask them after this sort of trying to understand,

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you mentioned, you know, people who joined in earlier. K. What was the perspective there? But, if I were to ask you what's the product? At this point in time, '22, कोई evolution हो योगी तो what's the what's the product there? For an average user जो देख रहा है,

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what service do you offer? Ok. So, मरहम जो है एक वह आसान अल्फ़ास में हम बताते हैं कि मरहम एक ऐसा platform है जो कि हमने उन users के लिए लिया है जिनको health care से related कोई भी problem है तो वह मरहम को use कर सकते हैं जिस तरह first करें कि हम एक example लेते हैं किसी की बीमारी की let's say आपको खुदान खासा fever है so you can go to मेहरम platform और आप fever को search करेंगे तो वह आपको doctors की list नज़र आ जाएगी जो fever को deal करते हैं. है. उसकी basis पर you can find all of the information regarding doctors, वह कहां बैठते हैं, उनके clinic क्या है, उनके practice क्या है, उनसे आप दो काम कर सकते हैं, whether you can book an appointment to their clinic or if you would like to consult online with their doctor तो आप online consultation book कर सकते हैं या appointment में. And then afterwards the consultation, will help people कि जिस तरह जो diagnostics होते हैं ये labs होते हैं so we help हम लोगों के घरों से जो sampling collect करानी होती है कि आपने first online consultation ली है. इन्हें इन्हें इन्हें हम एक example लेते हैं online consultation की तो आप घर बैठे हुए हैं. आपने online consultation लिया और online consultation लेने के बाद doctors ने आपको कुछ labs, diagnostic suggest किए हैं. वह घर के ऊपर से ही आपका sample collect हुआ and then we also deliver medicines in few cities now, लेकिन end to end experience कि जहां पर हम medicine को भी deliver करते हैं. तो मरहम is currently an end to end based experience, जहां पर आप, finding a doctor to booking an appointment, to consult doctor online, to have diagnostics from home and deliver medicine. This is the kind of a service we have right now. Interesting.

Muzamil

Asma, tell me how you joined and why, did you join? Considering, again, a cushy job at, Confiz and then switching from that to a start up in 2016. आजकल the startups are very sexy, right? Like, everybody is joining a startup. I mean, everybody was joining a startup up until six months ago then Domino started collapsing. But, उस time के ऊपर तो यह यह चीज़ थी कि यार. I mean, it must have been a big decision कि यार I am willing to bet my entire career, on an idea that may or may not work. So, what was the thought behind that?

Guest 2

Very interesting question और इसमें इस तरीके से था कि जो मेरा background था जैसे कि, you know, वो एक air force वाला experience था, एक Pakistan वाला experience था कि and then फिर you know थोड़ा सा वो एक ambition और risk लेने की जो है वो शुरू से थोड़ा सा उसमें वो एक कीड़ा मेरे में मौजूद था. So उसके अलावा एक different चीज़ यह थी कि I was like the only women in my family जिसने कभी भी you know like actually practically started doing some work you know इस तरह से. So when I was like doing all of those things या जब मैं पढ़ भी रही थी तो मैं हमेशा से सोचती थी कि मैं क्या करूंगी जब मैं अपनी graduation कर लूंगी या what would be the next step. So I even remember personally कि मैंने एक दफा you know ये like दुआ की कि मैं जैसे हम सोचते हैं कि मैं Google में काम करूंगी Facebook में काम करूंगी. कहां पर you know I will be working and I remember कि मैं अल्लाताला से इसके ऊपर पड़ी मैंने भी द्वाकी कि अल्लाताला मैं I want to work on something in my life where I am working for you Like, you know, a kind of setup where I am like doing some kind of work that is very-very connected to you in that sense. So, so उसके बाद when, you know, हुआ यह कि I get a chance to, you know, meet with एहसान at confers और हम वहां पर like fast forward एक जगह पर काम करे थे and we were like working in totally different teams हमारा वहां उस तरह से कोई directly interaction नहीं था. एक दो दफा एक दो छोटी मोटी चीज़ों के ऊपर interaction हुआ होगा but even in those interactions sometimes आपकी कुछ बहुत छोटी interactions भी ना बहुत meaningful interactions होती है. So I remember की मेरी जो इंसान से बिल्कुल early conversation हुई. Nobody ever asked me ever in my life की आपका ज़िंदगी का goal क्या है? So, एहसान ने मेरे से ना एक दो early interaction है. मैं बोल energetic थी यह वह, यह उन्होंने मेरे से पुछा कि आपकी ज़िंदगी का goal क्या है? अब जब उन्होंने मेरे से यह पुछा ना कि आपकी ज़िंदगी का goal क्या है? तो I had no answer. I was blank. I was like blank. हालांकि मुझसे सिर्फ computer का पुछ लें, design का पुछ लें, programming का पुछ लें, हर चीज़ का पुछ लें. I had all the answers. लेकिन मुझसे बचा कि ज़िंदगी का goal किया and I was blank and the best comeback I have ever done in my life was this कि I asked him, what's your goal? So I asked him, what's your goal? श्रदीप politician style ना कि एक बात, if you don't know the answer तो बात गुमार देता है. Yes sir, बिल्कुल sir. मैंने सबसे आपका goal किया So he he gave me a very realistic kind of answer. He said me कि I want to build a product जिसके मैं highs and lows देखना चाहता हूँ. ना मुझे समझ आए कि product क्या होता और ना मुझे highs and lows की बात समझ आई. मैंने कहा बंदा कोई different काम करना चाहता है but but it was a very different interaction. लेकिन मैंने उस जिस तरह मैंने मेरे से यह पुछा ना कि आपको ज़िंदगी का goal क्या है? I like started thinking कि ठीक है मैं यह करना चाहती थी मैं ऐसी दुआएं मांगती थी मेरी यह aspirations थी but what I want to do? So I got into a phase जिसमें I was like started questioning that what I am doing in my life और यह future में कहां पर जाकर you know end up होगा. So I was going through that kind of phase और उसमें फिर then like few months later you know like you know handed हमारी खल के खल के discussion हुई he shared with me a document he said because मैं conscious मैं user experience design के ऊपर काम करी थी he shared with me की इसमें I am like working on something मैं उसको ज़रा explore कर रहा हूँ तो this is a document आप कोई थोड़ा सा मुझे इसको ज़रा थोड़ा सा

Guest

मतलब यह मरहम क्या है? क्या problem है? Solution क्या है? होना क्या चाहिए? So like a three sixty degree overview Yeah, of so what it it was a 40 pages document.

Guest 2

My god. Yeah, it was detailed. It was detailed. I thought it was like a one pager or something. नहीं. वह एक साल का plan था. It took us four years to execute that. But, but it was very detailed भाषाला. So he gave me the document I thought कि मैं इसको पढ़ती हूं ना ही like मैंने उसको पढ़ा line, line by line and was like और वह जो मैं इतना अपने आप को lucky महसूस करती हूं इसके अंदर and I think कि it could be anybody in my life और पता नहीं I mean you know how I get that opportunity. I got that document and मैंने जब उसको पढ़ा, मैंने जो problem को समझा

Muzamil

and all of those things. Very interesting, sorry मैं आपकी बात काट रहा This is a very interesting pivotal sort of film moment, right? Like Netflix moment when you are working on a startup and वह आजकल वह चल रहा ना v crash time sorry वह तो खैर crash के ऊपर है but we work की story है and so even co founder sort of meet तो वह एक document आई and then you know आपके scenes आ रही है इसमें just going through them and staying up later. A very interesting.

Guest 2

Exactly even he gave me the document मेरा उससे दो दिन पहले laptop चोरी हो गया था. इन्होंने मुझे document भेजा I went to her fee center I purchased the laptop I opened it on that. मैंने कहा क्या इसको मैं आया I'll explore this और वो उसको देखा उसके because मेरा उससे ज़्यादा background था because मेरा user experience problem कैसे map होगी फिर solution के साथ किसको हम implement करेंगे and he was like best at it already मतलब इनको products बनाना किस तरह से काम करना है. So when I went through all of that thing I was like this is amazing. उसमें उन्होंने नाम लिखा हुआ था कि GMP would be this platform. So I like called him कि यह जो आप बना रहे हैं इसका नाम GMP है. So he said नहीं नाम में मैंने time नहीं waste किया मैंने बाकी चीज़ लिखी आप you can you know think about it. So I thought की बिल्कुल ठीक है so तब मैंने सोचा की जब मैंने वो पूरा document पढ़ा and I like went through all of that thing I thought की ये जो vn है which you know which you know we are trying to implement here this is primarily this के this is cure for the pain of people. वो जिस किस्म की suffering से गुजरते है या disease से लड़ते हुए उन्हें जिस किस्म का बोझ उन्हें या उनकी families को उठाना पड़ता है. We want to share this you know the service wants to share that burden. So इसका क्या नाम बनता है? So like you know immediately like it came like कि मरहम इसका नाम बनता है we want to become मरहम for them this product wants to become मरहम for them so I like you know then suggested this to him कि we can like name it this way और फिर मैंने इनसे भी पुछा की आप यह क्यों करना चाह रहे है and you know he told me this की यह vn है और यह ऐसे ऐसे करना चाहिए और उस वक्त जो you know passion था जो energy थी ना I have not experience that so far मतलब तो मैंने कहा गया this is something I want to work on. मैं अगर अपने वक्त का इस्तेमाल अगर किसी बेहतरीन जगह पर करना चाहती हूँ तो this is something that I can do. फिर उसके अलावा एक background में यह भी history थी कि because मैंने सारी ज़िंदगी air force का health care देखा था. So that time like वह बिल्कुल एक early pregnancy वाला भी गुस्ना के मामला चल रहे थे. तो civilian healthcare was very different. Military is quite organized in terms of healthcare but civilian healthcare was very disorganized. So I was also very like you know questioning this के experience wise अगर वह एक community है जिसको यह privilege है कि वह एक organized healthcare देख सकते हो तो यह बाकी सारे लोगों ने क्या किया है? You know why they can't have it? And जब उस समय मेरी बेसान से मेरी discussion हुई because उसकी वजह यह थी कि because no one ever worked on it. किसी ने उस problem की उस तरह से ownership नहीं ली कि you know let's solve this. Right. So there I thought कि you know यह तो एक responsibility वाला काम है and let's you know commit to this for life. So यह मेरा मामला था. Interesting and if I were to ask you just give me a very quick summary of what you guys have achieved over the last six years.

Muzamil

Give me some numbers, give me, you know, where do you stand today?

Guest 2

बिल्कुल, wonderful. So, alhamdulillah so far like very humbling to share this but alhamdulillah till now in last six years we were able to you know तकरीबन तीस million यानी के तीन करोड़ से ज़्यादा लोगों ने मरहम का platform अभी तक इस्तेमाल किया है. So इस्तेमाल experience के साथ हमने जो है वो पंद्रह से बीस लाख patients को serve किया है. Currently हमारे पास जो है वो Pakistan भर से और Pakistan के एक सौ इक्कीस शहरों और town से हमारे पास जो है वो छब्बीस हज़ार के करीब doctors इस platform के ऊपर registered है. Doctors जो है वह अब and highly specialized doctors available है जिन्हें ढूंढना would you know takes you days and weeks to find those kind of doctors. चाहे वह बच्चों की kidney के खसूसी doctors हो या brain की development के कोई अलग तरह के doctor हो या खून से related कोई अलग specialized super specialized doctors हो those kind of doctors as well to you know like doctors and like skin के you know gastro के हमारे पास तकरीबन एक सौ तीस medical specialties के doctor जो है वो all across Pakistan मौजूद है and this is you know one of the you know एक unique kind of service that that kind of information is available there. इसके अलावा जो मरहम की एक और unique achievement है कि मरहम को Pakistan भर से जैसे last month की अगर हम बात करें तो हमें एक सौ पैंतालीस चेहरों से patients ने reach out किया और मरहम के platform से अपनी appointments और consultations ली और इसके अंदर जहां पर doctors के साथ आप appointments लेने के through आप बात कर सकते हैं इस तरह जो हमारे जो एक major achievement है which was like very difficult to crack initially was this के doctor से online कैसे बात होगी? You know online consultation कैसे होगी? So we feel very happy and proud about this के आज से पांच साल पहले ना आपके phone पर पांच minute के अंदर अंदर doctor available नहीं हो सकता था. It was impossible. You can never say कि मैं एक जगह पर जाके दो चार button दबाऊं and doctor is on my phone and I can get authentic information right away you know at my home at anywhere

Muzamil

but now with मरहम you can do that. Interesting and if I were to ask you कि मुझे थोड़ा सा process बताएं मेरे लिए यह actually सवाल मैंने लिखा था कि जो online consultation हो रही है at this point in time वह किस basis पर हो रही है? Is it like कि मैंने doctor को book करवा दिया मैंने choose किया उसमें कि यार I want an instead of an in person I want an online. तो what's the IT stack क्या है वह online interaction का? Is it like कि ok someone from the call center has now sent me a Zoom link and now I'm gonna interact on a Zoom call

Guest 2

or what? No no, बिल्कुल. So, इसके अंदर यह है कि even we were like when we starting शुरू से ही हमारा यह like after like initial testing हमारा यह focus था कि हमने बहुत अच्छा like एक experience build करने की कोशिश करनी है जिसमें patients को कोई you know blocking point ना हो या वो आसानी इसको इस्तेमाल कर सके. So इसमें इस तरीके से होता है कि आप अगर मैं उनके platform के ऊपर आए आप एक doctor select करेंगे आप अपना अपनी पसंद का available time slot select करेंगे जो doctor साहब का वहां पर available होगा and then आपने जो भी doctor की fees होगी वो pay करनी होगी and then उसके बाद आप waiting area में आ जाएंगे as per your time slot और similarly ये patient का flow होगा दूसरी तरफ doctor के पास भी मरहम की ही app का एक variant है मरहम connect doctor उस app के ऊपर doctor को भी तमाम notification और information जाएगी कि this patient is available doctor उसको confirm करेगा doctor will appear on the waiting area doctor will call the patient on the app app ही के ऊपर जो है वो doctor और मरहम ही के app के ऊपर doctor और patient आपस में जैसे हम WhatsApp पर call करते है वो उसी तरीके से एक दूसरे के साथ connect कर जाएंगे लेकिन इसमें differentiation ये है कि during that call and before even the call you can share your reports with the doctor. You can you know you know have different kind of camera views as well to you know अगर कोई चीज़ physically दिखाने की ज़रूरत है और उसके through आप conversation करेंगे doctor के साथ. Doctor के पास एक EMR होगा जब वो आपसे video consultation पे बात कर रहा होगा तो वो साथ साथ आपका diagnosis, आपको क्या दवाइयाँ लेनी चाहिए, कौन से test कराने की ज़रूरत है, next treatment की ये वो सारा digitally डाल रहा है. वो सब digitally डाल रहा है. ठीक है. और आपका next follow up कब होना चाहिए? उसमें आपको कोई referral की ज़रूरत है किसी और doctor के पास? So वो इस किस्म की दमान information जो है वो doctor भी अपने पास app में add करेगा. जैसे ही consultation end होगी doctor will you know this press a button के you know send this prescription to patient और वो एक notification आएगा patient के पास और patient can then have that you know prescription और वो तमाम information उनके पास होगी. And that prescription is

Muzamil

because Pakistan में थोड़ा सा ये भी problem आए कि when you talk about prescription medication तो वह क्या उसको phone पर दिखा सकता है या वह उसको print निकाल करके अगर for example if some doctors antibiotics particularly a certain type Pakistan में controlled उस पर आ गई हैं post typhoid regime जो यह resistance आ गई थी. तो उसमें बड़ा मसला होता है कि you know pharmacies are very serious at least इलाहाबाद में तो ऐसा ही है कि they don't just hand it out right? बिल्कुल. उसकी

Guest 2

clarity है कि बिल्कुल उसके ऊपर जो prescription होती है उसके ऊपर doctor की credentials मौजूद हैं कि इनकी क्या तालीम है,

Guest

you know, why he is qualified to do this और वह फिर तमाम detail उसके साथ patient को दी जाती है. It's same like कि जिस तरह आपका normal prescription होता है, this is kind of a e prescription which you receive it and then if you would like to print it, you can print it and take it to there. Otherwise, you can show it on on the phone to the medical store. Very cool. That's perfect. I've just downloaded the app. Sorry. I was a little distracted on the phone. Was just trying to do that.

Muzamil

Very, very, by the way, very, agile and clean app in a way कि दो minute पर download हो गया है. Was saying, not clunky at all. Wait पर काफ़ी काम किया है. हां, तो तो तो तो good job on that guys. I I just opened it up. It's called मरहम find a doctor. It's an iOS right now. I'm sure Android maybe obviously Sí. That's the bigger market in Pakistan anyways. So you open the app and straight up what I can see is book an appointment and then consult online. And then one of the features that I was actually very interested in was कि there is this pop up which says call doctor now. Yes. Right? And and this I feel like is is one of the most engaging feature because more often than not when I am feeling sick medicine is a big अजीब सी field है generally in our podcast we have a a times lot we times times lot this is the thing जो है आप ignore करते हो for the longest time. We जब तक आपके सर पर नहीं पड़ जाती ना तो आप कहते हो यार health के बारे में मुझे ना बताओ anxiety. Let

Guest

me give you another answer to that. जब हमने शुरू में काम करना शुरू किया तो हमने doctor से पूछा कि यार

Muzamil

तबीज़ and everything is there and then उसके बाद finally you know things unfortunately उसमें चीज़ काफी दफा बचा भी सकते हो but उससे पहले आप जा ही नहीं रहे होते. Late खुश गए होते हैं yes. And so instinctively जब मैं कहता हूं कि यार खास्ता कुछ हो गया है and now I really need a doctor. I was gonna ask you कि do you have a feature like that? I'm assuming this is that feature. So this is a call call a doctor now and now it's telling me all specialties and there are like a 140 of them and उसमें आपने data का I guess इस्तेमाल करके आपने top specialties बता दी जिसमें mostly लोग जाते हैं. बिल्कुल.

Guest

Similarly उर्दू के उर्दू से भी नाम mention किया हुआ है. Yes लेकिन एक बात मैं यहां पर बताना चाहता हूं वह यह कि still मरहम is not an app for emergency. तो अगर कभी भी खुदाना खास्ता आपके साथ emergency हुई है do not download मरहम app go to the hospital. Go to the hospital that's fine. Great

Muzamil

legal testimony. In case there is a lawsuit coming but that's good to know. But when I mention emergency I mean more of a life threatening emergency but more like कि यार पेट में बहुत दर्द हो रही है अब मैं क्या करूं? Normal हर इंसान क्या होता है वो university में या university में तो नहीं high school में एक दोस्त था

Guest 2

कि you know अब Pakistan में एक need है कि या एक culture है कि you know if you feel like आपको कोई symptoms महसूस हो रहा है या कोई परेशानी है so आप immediately you try to find a doctor friend आप उसको reach out कर लेते हैं you just want to call and you know get an information.

Muzamil

So why not we you know make doctors you know accessible like that friend and doctors of different specialties accessible like that friend. Just come over आपको वहां पर different fee range जिसके doctors available होंगे आप उस तरह से देख सकते हैं. And so this is I went into so in the top five you know I just found a psychiatrist which by the way I find very interesting the fact that you are you know focusing on mental health there as well. And so and that more often than not is an emergency in a way. You know, sometimes people go through anxiety, and they're like, you know, I need to talk to a doctor or whatever. And so I click on psychiatrist, and now there are a bunch of options available, and it says call now. I put my information, and I send the money, and now this doctor is available on the spot right now. These are the live doctors right now available on the platform. Is that correct? Fascinating. एक चीज़ जो so so so what I've seen is this, confusion मुझे तो आ रही है. जो आपका core original thought थी और जो story है और जो current product है उसमें थोड़ी सी evolution आई है. Mhmm mhmm. Original thought के basis के ऊपर अगर मेरे दिमाग़ में अगर एक platform मुझे नज़र आ रहा था ना तो मुझे Yelp नज़र आ रहा था. So this is Yelp as well. You can help. In a way it is Yelp. In a Yelp because you can find those reviews there and all Absolutely. Those But in a way what this is doing is कि Guelph is basically, like, somewhere deep down inside. Mhmm. And what's really out there now is more of a a a a hospital a a of the hospital experience in a digitized way that's taken the front seat. And the reason why I say this is because

Guest

and it's fine. Either way is very important to understand both are fine. हां, but I I definitely would like to tell you that the revolution कि कैसे बनाओ और task एक कैसे

Muzamil

तो revolution के बारे यही पूछूंगा but also I want to understand because sure I mean some sort of a review mechanism will give you ranking in a way that it will allow me to rank doctors better through my algorithm. But that's still driven primarily by, you know, five by five by five stars, 92 reviews. Everybody has a review listed and and I don't know if you can actually read the reviews as well. Yeah. But I'm sure you can, right? So but that's it. So that's there. But when I originally thought, मैंने वहां में यह आ रहा था कि यार if platform is platform but even if as a community if I want to go in and and and sort of identify कि कौन सा doctor मुझे potentially best होगा मेरी location के हिसाब से या यह है वह है तो मुझे वह भी information मिल जाएगी. So tell me that that evolution of how because इसके अंदर direct finances का element भी आता है इसके अंदर product product भी आती है like this is the the service that you are doing sure but how do you sort of convert that into something more valuable? Makes sense. So I think like one of the thing which we were trying to do at that moment तो

Guest

हम basically जो बात कर रहे थे initially हम ना एक cultural shift की बात कर रहे थे कि हाँ हम ना health care का culture ही change करना चाहते हैं तो हम आपसे भी कुछ भी नहीं charge करें, just give your information. And उन्होंने कहा कि क्यों भाई? क्यों भाई? निकलो बात.

Muzamil

Was like surprised. हम एक अच्छी चीज़ करने निकले हैं कि why aren't people helping us? Yeah,

Guest

FBR वाले ना आ जाए type of stuff. So it was a bit of a challenge and then if we let's say कि हमने initially बड़ी कोशिश की कि doctors जो हैं उस तरह आना शुरू हो जाएं. लेकिन वह तो हमारा control में ही नहीं था. हमारे control में ही था कि हम उनके पास जाते वह कहते हैं ठीक है, register होना है हो जाए, नहीं होना ना हो and then उनकी information ठीक है, ठीक है, नहीं है, नहीं है. We would like to build an experience for the people, right? तो हमने सोचा कि क्या ऐसी चीज़ है जो इन doctors को attract करेगी कि नहीं यार हमने होना है, right? So instead of you go doctor after doctor, doctor after doctor उनको कहें कि please आप हमारे पास आ जाएं. Why not to build something

Muzamil

मेरे मके ऊपर

Guest

देखें जिससे आपका electronic health record वन रहा है फलाना but nothing was that thing जो कि जो हम करना चाहते थे experience को, बेहतर बनाने के लिए वह नहीं आ रहा था. तो then we thought about what motivates an industry altogether. तो हमने कहा किया? It is more about जिस तरह आपकी जो real digital presence है which is actually converting into the real life experience कि whether मरहम पर जो profile बनाते हैं उसे उनको real life में क्या फ़ायदा होता है, right? So that was there तो फिर हमने उसके ऊपर सोचना शुरू किया, फिर हमने consumer के problem सोचना शुरू किया कि यार लोगों को क्या problem होता है? Strategy जो क्या नाम होता है methodology follow की जिसको agile methodology कहते हैं. जिसके अंदर जो है आप जो product develop करते वह according to user feedback या customer feedback के ऊपर develop करते हैं. तो हमने यह नहीं कहा कि फिर हम बस product बनाते रहते हमने कहा कि बस छोटा सा बनाते हैं. उसके ऊपर users का feedback लेते हैं. देखते हैं कि यार चीज़ user को चाहिए. सिर्फ वही बनाते हैं. तो that is how we can be a good product market fit at the end of the day. So that is how वह हमने step by step, step by step, step by step score evolve किया है. Evolve किया है and reach to this point. Right. इसमें

Muzamil

एक और सवाल मेरा योगा कि what's the what's the model here? I understand online consultation with the probably there's a percentage model. Just like for hospitals, you give a percentage for the platform and then the doctor sort of keeps his own sort of commission, right? Like, but what about the appointment management system जो कि उसके clinic पर या उसके hospital पर manage हो रहा है and and and is there a difference between so maybe that's the same as well but percentages का फ़र्क़ है. How is मरहम making that money? And in terms of profitability not in terms of positive revenue but in terms of profitability. Are you there? Or do you still have like a. Ok sorry यह profitability के सवाल है ना startups थोड़ा सा मेरा साम ज़रूर करते

Guest

लेकिन मज़े की बात यह है कि अलहमदिलावी are one of the startups जिन्होंने profitability achieve किए and we self sustainable between like we started in 2016 and we reached to 2018 और 2018 तक हमने bootstrapping की mostly and then after 2018 we were a self sustainable cash flow positive startup and till 2021 we were a self sustainable startup. हमने अपने ही पैसों से अपनी company को grow किया अलहम्दालाह. ज़बद. And then reach to 2021 where we have we raised a seed round with Indus Valley Capital and उसकी एक reason थी हम उसके ऊपर भी आते लेकिन उससे पहले ठीक है. Patient don't have to pay anything other than a doctor's free. तो हमने अपनी जो सारी strategy build की, वह उसके round की कि patient को extra पैसे ना देने पड़े. Right. तो जो हमने doctors के software बनाए हैं, it's more of a बड़ा easy type की methodology है. हमने जो है module by module चीज़ें बनाई हुई हैं. If you would like to just use the appointment booking system, you can use it and there's a different fee for that, right? Right. If you would like to use EMR, there's a different fee for that. You can enable EMR component into it. If you would just like to के देखना चाहते कि यार मैं अपना profile बनाना चाहता हूं तो there there are multiple options for that but हमारे platform पर doctor की जो registration है, जो हमारा पहला point था कि हम चाहते accessibility को improve करना, that's free. Right. आप business model दे रहे हैं, आप ऐसे दें या ना दें. It doesn't matter. मरहम आपको हमेशा register करेगा. उसकी वजह यह है कि हमारा objective था कि हमने accessibility improve करनी है, right? ठीक है. तो बाकी यह है कि वह additional services हैं. आप जितनी additional services लेना चाहते हैं वह आप लें. If you want us to manage the appointment then you have and then उसके अंदर भी बड़ा flexible environment है. वह क्यों? कि sometime हम doctors को कहते हैं कि there is a fixed fee for that लेकिन sometime वह they don't want to get into the fixed fee model. उसके तो अंदर ये है कि वो जितनी type की services वो use करते हैं as they use more services they can pay according to that. तो वो जितनी ज़्यादा use कर रहे हैं वो उसके मुताबिक pay करेंगे. तो it's a very flexible model. At the end of the day doctor के पास free register होने की भी option है to appoint कि जहां पर वह जो services हैं. And the and the model and the the the flexible model is based built around your services or is it built around

Muzamil

the usability of those services? What I mean by that is, let's assume someone takes an appointment management system but somehow his audience is not converting to the online model. Right? And so, you're still gonna charge irrespective of whether someone actually booked appointments with them through your system or not. Or will you be like, pay as you go or pay as you grow? Right? So you say, okay. Listen. Like, I'm not gonna charge you. So the software is available. I mean, it's a stack. Right? So you'll just open it up. But if there's a there are a lot of people who end up using it, तो हम उस usability

Guest

की percentage लेंगे. Rather than saying कि भाई you know lump sum पंद्रह सौ हज़ार रुपया तुमने मुझे महीने का देना ही देना है use किया या नहीं किया? Exactly so इसके अंदर हमारे पास दोनों options हैं. ठीक है. So you can pay a fixed amount per month जो कि हमारी है or you can go to the usability model कि अगर अगर आप कोई use करते हैं system, you pay and if अगर वह use नहीं कर रहे तो don't pay us. Ok, interesting.

Muzamil

And then tell me a bit about why Indus Valley Capital and and a lot of other investors that that that came in as well considering the fact that I was having a conversation. Think इस से जो पिछली episode यह रही होगी probably. There was there was a young kid, 23 year old. He's he's automating traffic signals in Pakistan, fascinating mind. And you know he he everything else he said perfectly. One of the things that you know he mentioned was that I don't I don't wanna go to a to an investor and I don't wanna go to I don't wanna sort of मैं अपनी liquid वह नहीं करना जो equity है उसको मैं वह नहीं करना चाहता and I think that's a very common perception in Pakistan right? एक दिया idea is कि भाई मेरा धंधा चल रहा है तो मैं क्यों left right किसी और के पास जाऊं? मैं तो इसी तरह चलाता रहूंगा. And then there are people now who are increasingly going to investors. और इस पर I remember I had a conversation with you know मीना की बड़ी बड़ी conversation है metric app वाली. ्होंने यह बात बोली थी कि काफ़ी दफ़र लोग जाते हैं और जाकर पैसे उनका mindset यह होता है कि बड़ी बड़ी valuation ले लें, बड़ा वह कर लें and it's very important to price your surprise as well at the right time, right? And if you sort of over evaluation आप दे दें और फिर आप growth ना show कर सकें तो अगले round में आपको problem होगी. Yes. आप जो है वह again too much excitement. Don't chew more than you can swallow sort of. Don't bite more than you can chew. So what was it for you guys when you were looking to what was the thought process? As a as a as a founder listen like let's go look for investment and and यह भी बताइएगा कि वह मुझे थोड़ा सा give me that story. Did they reach out to you? Did you decide कि listen like now is the time and why did you eventually

Guest

accept it? Great. So I think like one of the key thing is again going back to the objective कि जब आप objective पर जाते हैं तो decision making आपके different हो जाती है. तो initially हमारा यह idea नहीं था कि हम investment raise करेंगे. Why? Because health care is very sensitive industry. You need to understand it. It's not a commerce industry जहां पर अगर आपका एक order गलत हो गया तो that's fine. Customer ज़रा सा गुस्सा होगा और that's fine. यह, it is very serious. So, building the right foundation when you are not doctor or medical. So, initially हमारे से गलती हुई कि हमने अच्छा किया. लेकिन initial भी यह था कि यार नहीं, हमने ना किसी hospital owners को या बड़े influencers Businessman को को डालना है. डालना नहीं है. क्यों नहीं डालना? Eventually हम जो है ना उसकी तरफ तो anyways तो then we reach to 2021 जब हमने bootstrapping भी कर ली, जब हमने self sustainability भी कर ली, cash flow positivity भी कर ली. अब वहां पर एक point था या तो हम यही सोचते रहें कि भाई हमने equity किसी को नहीं देनी, effort करनी पड़ती थी behind that. But eventually जब twenty twenty one था IVCI और जो investors investment का momentum बना तो हमने कहा कि why not? I I was I got a chance to talk to आते not before even investing, before he decided to invest into मरहम. तो just वैसे ही office hours के ऊपर हम थे तो क्योंकि he he worked into LinkedIn, he he was able to grow LinkedIn. तो I was very interesting talking to him कि यार कैसे आपका experience था and how were you able to grow? And that was a very interesting time तो हमने कहा कि challenge करते हैं. तो it took us like two months or maybe a little more, little less. तो हमने वह अपनी सारी planning वगैरह की and we reach out to the local VC. So it was not, to be honest, not at all a difficult experience. बहुत smooth, बहुत easy experience था and we had a call with अथिव और एक call हुई. उसके बाद दूसरी call हुई. उसने कुछ question दिए, हमने question solve किए. He made the offer. Right. That's the story. And then क्योंकि हम कुछ और investors से भी उस वक़्त हमने pitch किया था. तो हमने all of them made offer. तकरीबन, right? Right. So, हमने सोचा कि अब हमें क्या करना है, right? And then we decided कि we would like to go with Indus Valley because of the values they share and because of the experience and expertise they have and that's how we reach to this point. Interesting. And so it's primarily the investment days for growth? Basically, हम उसको सीधी investment ही कहेंगे कि we would like to to see कि हम अपना experience को कैसे और improve कर सकते हैं and then grow कैसे कर सकते हैं. तो हमने अलहम्दुल्लाह इस investment को लेकर we were able to grow from like approximately हमने 400% grow किया by raising that investment to to to the world. The what's the volume if it's public news? I am not sure. What's the volume of the investment? Is it public? Yeah yeah, it's public. It's a like $1,000,000 investment. है. क्योंकि जो इस तरह के हमारे पास जो mostly there are a lot of things कि भाई startup को इस तरह judge किया जाता कि वह कितनी investment raise करते लेकिन यह जो हमारा type of industry है जहां पर हमने कोई purchase नहीं करना, कोई stock नहीं करना, तो we don't require a lot of cash. Right? हमें तो सिर्फ अपने team के लिए और growth के लिए catch चाहिए. So, I think हमें चूंकि किसी और जगह पर invest नहीं करना So, all of the money just goes into the team and the growth. ठीक है. मुझे यह बताएं कि and असमान, maybe you're better equipped to answer that. This is a purely operational question.

Muzamil

You mentioned patients को समझ आ गया. Any patient is a is a good patient. Right? But any doctor is not a good doctor technique, theoretically speaking. And so when you're onboarding a doctor, is there a purely digital experience, first of all? And second of all, what exactly sort of documentation do you require? What are the bases through which you're onboarding a doctor? And I'll give you the context for this question. I was reading up on on Twitter today or yesterday. There was a tweet about how, you know, this girl or this boy, don't remember the exact gender but you know they mentioned कि जी I graduated from King Edwards last year and I have been jobless since and doctors का बहुत बुरा हाल है and then I clicked on that tweet and उसके नीचे लोगों ने लिखा हुआ था कि 50% of young doctors जो अभी graduate कर रहे हैं they're jobless. There's a huge problem with the health care industry and and it's always I've always found that fascinating considering just the sheer amount of people in this country and the the health care you know provision which is an absolute mess demand and supply के बंदा industry को scale करता है ना. तो आप कह रहे हो कि यार patients कह रहे कि doctor available नहीं है. चार चार हफ्ते के appointments हैं. Doctor कह रहे नौकरी available नहीं है. And it blows my mind how that's possible considering कि वह है तो it just seems like there is a broken system where there's a lot of power consolidation within certain sort of hospitals and certain spaces. And so in a simple mind like my own will say कि this is a great way to connect out of work doctors with patients or at least early warning patients who are looking for some sort of an advice and but then the more complex problem comes in how do you identify that these doctors are experience and their quality are their and then how do you begin to rank that system in a way that even if they don't have any experience maybe it's a straight out of the university maybe they have their house job. पहली बात यह है कि what's the minimum benchmarking जिसके ऊपर आप कहते हो कि अरे अच्छा you have this this this you have a license you have a house job or whatever you can be part of the system. And then secondly how do you begin to identify कि यार वरना ख़याम यही होगा कि everybody will go to that top ranked high performance doctor and ये बाकी सारे जो हैं वो बेचारे बैठे हैं wait कर रहे कि यार हम क्या करें और उस doctor का queue जो है बड़ी जा रहा है. So run me through a little bit about on boarding the doctors and how do you sort of distribute the management. So

Guest 2

इसके अंदर मुज़मिल इस तरह से होता है कि you know बिल्कुल ये एक major problem है हमारे मुल्क के अंदर कि जो healthcare ecosystem है it's not balanced. So जिस तरह आपने बताया कि you know different you know silos हैं और उस तरह से एक you know imbalance system है. इसके अंदर हमारा जो onboarding का process है उसके अंदर जो एक कुछ fundamental चीज़ें हैं जो कि health care की guidelines Pakistan में बनी हुई है जिनके मुताबिक कौन से doctors हैं जो practice कर सकते हैं और उसके लिए क्या bare minimum requirements हैं. So वो bare minimum requirements को you know verify करने का हमारा एक पूरा mechanism है that is super essential and critical to us. So इसके अंदर हम ये करते हैं कि किसी भी doctor ने अगर मरहम के platform के ऊपर अपने app को register कराना है so they can you know come on our product or like website app वहां पर आकर, you know, join as a doctor के, you know, एक process से वह गुज़र सकते हैं जिसके अंदर वह अपनी कुछ basic information related to their license number, like their qualification, their experience. वो कहां पर अभी practice कर रहे हैं या क्या या online clinic अपना setup करना चाहते हैं और उनकी क्या like कुछ credentials हैं जो कि हम एक तमाम information हम doctor से लेते हैं. उसके बाद we take almost three business days to you know call their doctor, verify that information और PMDC की website से हम उनकी वो तमाम जो degrees हैं उनकी validity को verify करते हैं. Means sure कीजिए ये information इस तरह से मौजूद है and then after that process we onboard a doctor on our platform. Then उसके बाद क्या होता है के यहाँ से ही एक उनका initial step है उसके बाद ये होता है कि जैसे जैसे doctor अब मरहम से patient देखना शुरू करता है वहाँ से भी उनका एक review mechanism जो है वो start हो जाता है. So let's say के एक doctor से मुजम्मिल appointment book कराते है और उनके पास वो visit करते है. So after every appointment हम एक जो है feedback का एक process run करते है. जिसके through हम उनसे ही पूछते है के आप doctor के पास आपका even experience wise कैसा रहा? In terms of wait time, in terms of you know staff, experience वो कैसा रहा? And other on this क्या आप diagnosis और treatment से कितने satisfied रहे? How accurate that was? How helpful that was? How satisfied you are from that? So वो एक हम एक process जो है वो thorough run कर रहे होते है because जैसे आसान ने earlier mention किया health care is like super critical. So उससे क्या होता है कि वो एक हर doctor की जो है वो हमारे पास एक profile बनना शुरू हो जाती है with the help of data कि ये कैसा practice कर रहे है. Prime यहां पर अगर मैं role की बात करूँ so जिस जिस technology को हमने year over year refine किया या उसके ऊपर काम करने की कोशिश की वह एक तो यह था कि हम patients को authentic और accurate doctors के साथ ही connect करें जो verified हैं, authentic हैं, उस field के अंदर specialized हैं उनसे connect करें. दूसरी तरफ हमारे लिए यह बहुत important था कि doctors के लिए एक equal opportunity create की जा सके. Equal opportunity create करना क्यों ज़रूरी था? Because ये बिल्कुल आपकी बात ऐसे ही है के अगर एक doctor है उसके पास नहीं उसको किसी अपनी practice setup करने में even वैसे आपको पांच से सात साल का एक journey आपको लगता है आप या किसी जगह के ऊपर अगर आप अपना clinic खोल भी लेते है as a doctor doctor अगर हम उनकी career management की बात करे वो अगर एक जगह के ऊपर अपना clinic open भी कर लेते है तो how anybody will know की यहां पर doctor exist करता है या आपके nearby area में वो doctor exist करता है. So वो अब जो है आपके लिए के अस्सी फिसद patients को तो वो 20% doctors का ही पता होता I mean 10% doctors का ही पता होता है. So हम उनकी accessibility अपने platform के through you know build करते है उन doctors को so उससे क्या होता कि when we like make those doctors accessible on our platform वहां पर ये होता है की जी ये technology का platform उनको एक equal opportunity देने की कोशिश करता है की किस तरह से you know if you know आपकी timing आपकी availability के हिसाब से आपको कैसे जो है वो right impressions मिलेंगे की आप एक certain number of visits आपके profile के ऊपर आ रहे हो और patients आपको visit कर सके. So इस तरह से you know हम doctors की profile build करते है और doctors की profile build करने की भी क्या value है इसको थोड़ा सा हम define कर लेते है या उनके लिए ये कैसे उनके career को establish करता है Pakistan में. के हम for example अगर किसी भी आपने doctor को ढूंढना तो ऐसा कभी भी नहीं होगा कि आप कहीं you know सीधा जा रहे थे and you like decided कि ये इधर ये cardiologist बैठे हुए है और मैं इनके पास suddenly चला जाऊ. You will always need some background information about this के doctor कौन है? मुझे क्या इसके पास जाना चाहिए? नहीं जाना चाहिए? यह qualified होगा? यह नहीं होगा? So what we help doctors with this? के we you know build that kind of authentic profile for them जिसमें एक doctor की qualification आती है. उसके अंदर वो कहां practice कर रहे हैं? वो कहां से पढ़ा हुआ है उन्होंने. उनकी उनके reviews वहां पर mentioned होते है. इसके अलावा we do an another exciting thing की हम doctors की videos record करते है. So doctor को मिलने से पहले ही आपने doctor को somehow देख लिया होता है. आपने बोलते हुए देख लिया होता है, आपने यह देख लिया होता है कि वह किन diseases को treat करते हैं. So all of that information जो एक patient को चाहिए होती है to decide कि यह doctor क्या मेरे लिए ठीक है? Is this doctor matching right? Is a right fit for me or not? हम वह profile digital use की build कर देते Right. I would like to add one thing here as जी. वह यह कि

Guest

जो सबसे पहली बात हमें understand करनी की है कि what's the methodology जब हम किस तरह doctor को find करते हैं before में हम और हम नहीं हैं तो आपके पास एक ही mechanism है. आपको कोई भी problem है आप GP के पास जाते हैं और आपको पता है कि 80% of the time. GP solve करते हैं आपका problem solve करता है. हां है ना? तो इसका मतलब क्या हुआ कि जो specialized doctor हैं अभी अच्छे की तुम बाद में बात करते even उन तक भी जाने की ज़रूरत नहीं है. GPA आपका problem solve करता तो इसका मतलब यह है कि 80% of the time it is not the doctor, it is you के जो इतना late daughter के पास जाता जिसकी वजह से problem हो जाती है. तो अगर हम देखें तो एक जो doctor है जिसने बत्तीस जिस तरह as an engineer अगर आप if you are an engineer तो आप सोलह साल की उम्र में आप जो है फर्ज़ करें engineering शुरू करते हैं. बीस साल की उम्र में आप complete कर लेते हैं. इक्कीस साल की उम्र में आप job कर रहे होंगे. पड़ती है. उसके बाद house job करने के बाद he still a general practitioner. वह भी उस तरह clinic के ऊपर नहीं जाता. वह इधर उधर house officer as काम करता है. फिर उसके बाद वह FCPS के part one की तैयारी करता है. फिर FCPS part one देता है. फिर उसके बाद FCPS part two की तैयारी करता है. फिर FCPS part two देता है. तो by the time he reach to that level कि जहां पर वह FCPS part two देकर clear होता है, वह 33, 34, 35 में पहुंच चुका

Muzamil

सकते हैं? How do I, word-of-mouth तो खत्म हो गया but how do I ensure कि मेरे पास actually, मेरे पास register हो गया. अब मैं कहता हूं कि suddenly दस हज़ार बच्चा जो है वह आकर register हो जाता है. Is there a mechanism to provide some form of some patient to every doctor to begin to build their profile. या वह कोई ना कोई होगा जो कि हमेशा उठ रहेगा because the list is too long and the SEO isn't good enough and you know like it's basically like it becomes okay. You're not necessarily trying out every doctor. And so, is it that every other doctor will get that opportunity? Or is it that you have the the the core, the engine of the, sort of, modernized medical sort of management system. But there are certain things that the doctors have to do themselves as well. Maybe वो यहां पर आकर register कर रहे हैं but now they have their own social profile and वहां पर आकर वह actively, you know, लोगों को कह रहे हैं कि अपनी वही profile sort of brand build कर रहे हैं on Instagram, on Facebook and then they are saying, you know, get an appointment, come on मरहम and, you know, talk to me. So,

Guest 2

बिल्कुल. So इसके अंदर इस तरह से जो आप यह बात कर रहे हैं कि इसी तरह से ही हमने एक technology stack जो है वह जैसे मैं बता रही थी कि हमने बनाया हुआ है और उसकी उसके अंदर there are definitely some certain criteria's जो जिस तरह के doctor ने register किया तो initially वही जो एक as an equal opportunity हम उस doctor को एक certain profile views या impressions जो है वो मन होने product के ऊपर देंगे. ठीक है. फिर उसके बाद उनका patients के साथ कैसा experience रहता है and patient उसके ऊपर क्या feedback देते हैं. On the basis of this system will learn कि doctor के साथ जो है like

Muzamil

like monthly इनके साथ कितने engagement जो है आपको you committing the impressions and conversion is entirely up Yes. To the

Guest

Right. And the doctor as well क्योंकि profile कैसी है? हां, ज़ाहिर है जितना वह नया वह है तो उसके And another part is that हम जो doctor को एक और opportunity provide करते हैं, we do have a free forum on our site, right? और app पर भी कि जिसके ऊपर patient को जो सवाल है, वह पुछ सकते हैं. And then there is an opportunity for the doctors कि they can answer those questions. Interact and then through through that build their profile as well. Yes yes. Ok, so I'm gonna move to a segment.

Muzamil

This is first time we are doing anyway I actually started the session जो एक दोपहर पहले किया हुआ है. But think of this as a thought experiment brainstorming session. ठीक है? जो आपका huddle होता है ना generally आप लोगों का होता होगा कि let's think about what we can potentially do. We've just gotten a million dollars. We're rich. Where do we put that money? I'm getting into this app, right? And and and and before I say anything because I know के लोग वह जाते हैं तो certain things I wanna make clear. You guys have done a remarkable job. You created a beautiful system. The engine of of this is robust. It's clear के you know, it's it's mature and it's it works. So that's there and and and you know kudos to you for for for having built that. अब मैं I'm just gonna try to figure out as a sort of समझने कि product manager identify कि, you know, what are some of the areas that that can be improved. Great. So I've opened the product. And now one of the things that I've realized modern day के अंदर is there's way too much text. Right? And and if I segment the audience in Pakistan I am gonna segment it. I can segment it across multiple verticals and multiple sort of rows and rows and columns but मैं इसको बहुत simple करता हूँ. मैं कहता एक mature internet audience है और एक immature internet audience है. Mature internet audience वो है जो कि दो हज़ार तेरह 3G4G से पहले internet पे थी. हम आप सारे वही हैं. हमारे किसी parent ने जाके कभी computer लाके दिया उससे हमारा experience शुरू हुआ. Pakistan की generally वो sort of upper middle and above class exist करती थी. जो सारी universityयां भी जा रहे थे उनके खानदान भी एक certain sort of educated families में exist करते थे and so they had those products to play around with. They saw the services globally So they are a mature user in terms of digital services. उनको सिर्फ सिर्फ अपनी user experience देना कि यार हाँ आप doctory online भी हो सकती है. Once they have experienced it, they are there. No questions asked. So that user tends to read whatever you're you're giving them and is really interactive. And as long as it's simple enough, is able to learn it. And then there is another user, and that's the post 2013 era. And that user is your masses, that user is उसकी primary और first और primary device phone है. He either does not own a laptop, never has never owned a laptop और if he has a laptop तीस, पैंतीस, चालीस हज़ार रुपए से ज़्यादा वह आगे कभी यह नहीं है you know in terms of the technology वो उससे आगे नहीं गया. Again मैंने off camera आपके से पहले ही example दी थी difference between both users is one is Instagram user and one is TikTok user. Right? अच्छा मेरे दिमाग में ना जब आप ये सारा का सारा चल रहा था what I what I can see here is there's a there's a remarkable engineering team at play who really knows what what's the engine that I have to develop and so they've built that engine. Probably what's missing is कि sometimes you don't need I mean, sometimes you look at the पाकिस्तानी market and you're like, यार, am I do I need a McLaren engine here? You know? Mhmm. True. And so so right now what I'm seeing is it's it's a lot of stuff here. And so and I know there is a there is a definitive audience for it. I know it works. I know it's cash flow positive and so I am going to say कि यह चल रहा है चलने दें. इसको site पर रखें. Let's talk about another app. Let's talk about an app जिसको हम कहते हैं मरम्प्लास. ठीक है. मरम्प्लास is an app जिसके ऊपर मैं जैसे जाता हूँ ना तो उसका उसके अंदर एक feature है सिर्फ और वो ये है call a doctor. ठीक है? जैसे ही मैं उस पर click करता हूँ ना तो पुरुंग करके सामने मेरा एक doctor आ जाता है ठीक है अभी मैंने कोई पैसा नहीं दिया वह पुरुंग करके एक doctor आ जाता है और वो doctor जब आता है तो आप कहते हो कि doctor साहब मुझे ये problem है there is no specialization. मैं इसमें भी अगर मैं इसमें बताऊं another issue that I found here was when you call a doctor is giving me a bunch of specialization you know go from a SCCAB and then suddenly start going towards C and people have no clue what this is. Have no clue what family medicine is, eye specialist is. वो यहाँ पे दर्द हो रहा या पीछे दर्द हो रहा है या दिमागों का दर्द हो रहा है they have no idea so they really want to talk to someone like they just want access. Right? So मेरे इसमें मुझे दो जो problems नज़र आए जो कि solve नहीं हो रहे हैं वो ये हैं कि there's a huge amount of doctors who are jobless. There's a huge amount of patients who have no clue what's going on with them. And there requires a a mechanism through which both of them can grow. And so I envision a platform where a doctor straight out of college straight out of house job can sign up. वारंग बैठा है ना पूरे दिन. तो वो दिन में चार घंटे आके अपना experience build करे मुफ्त में doctors देख के. वो आपको next steps guide करते है या तो वो next step guide करते है कि ये you need a specialist for that you know that's where you read out to the महारा map now he is guide उसने guide कर दिया आपको ये specialist चाहिए है ये इस तरह से चाहिए है इस तरह इस तरह and so some वो जो है ना एक demand creation के phase में you have to actually educate the audience support as well वो part वहाँ पर हो रहा है meanwhile वो doctor और patient का जो interaction है उस app के अंदर वो एक अगर वो हो गया और वो call खत्म हो गया उसमें हुआ कि satisfied? Yes जैसे ही satisfied गया तो for a certain time छः घंटे के लिए वो patient doctor को text भी कर सकता है doctor उसको respond भी कर सकता है आखिर में review आता है. Doctor का वहां पर जो credit है वो वहां पर बढ़ना शुरू होता है and then after a certain credit जब उसका बढ़ जाता है तो वो अब वह 0 rupees से पचास रुपए के दुनहरे में आना शुरू हो जाएगा और पचास रुपए से सौ रुपए के उसमें आना शुरू हो जाएगा and so what I am missing is there is a specialized area that you already are catering to and you are saying कि let's say I I have gotten like 15 lakh users. How do you take 15 lakh to 15 crore? तो

Guest

one of the thing is that you have identified a very very good problem and you have explained it very well. So क्या मरहम में जब हमने चुके काफी मरहम में चुके काफी ज़्यादा हमें time हो गया तो we have, we were able to run a lot of different type of experiences. तो हमने एक यह भी experiment run किया था initially कि हम free doctor हमने मरहम के ऊपर available किया. So, no fee even. So, आप call doctor नाव पे जाते हैं. आप So उसके अंदर यह है कि अभी जो हमारे पास one of the challenge जो है, वह यह है कि हमारा जो culture है और as a nation जो है हम लोग, हम लोग one one two two पर भी मज़ाक की call करना शुरू करते थे ना जब हमें क्योंकि there are female doctors, there are male doctors, people started abusing the surveys and and try to call doctors and then then wasting their time as well क्योंकि उनको लग रही है यह तो free का chat है जब मेरा दिल करेगा मैं रात को खोला और chat करना शुरू कर दिया. Then we off board that point but वह service अभी हमारी बनी हुई है. ठीक है. लेकिन हमने उसको off किया हुआ है and we are working behind on to that area कि यार let's fix it and get back to that point कि जहां पर हम यह service दे सके. तो इंशाला कर रहे And free is one thing like देखें इसमें बड़ा important एक element यह है कि

Muzamil

यह आपका area है, right? कि user experience right now this is not conducive for someone let's say पांचवी जमात pass in from लईया who by the way is using snack video, who is using TikTok, who is using all those things and has a medical problem. उसके लिए एक app होनी चाहिए जिस पर वह जाए और उस पर वह जाकर. अब जिस तरह मैं छोटी सी मिसाल देता हूं. मेरे लिए अगर यह यह आ रहा ना तो यह नहीं होना चाहिए. मेरे लिए बड़ी बड़ी आपको ना एक questionnaire दिया with with big sort of images का करके या एक audio cue के साथ पेट का दर्द, इसका दर्द, उसका दर्द तो आपने yes, no, yes, no, हां, नहीं हां, नहीं हां, नहीं करके किया और उसने उसके हिसाब से उसने connecting you connecting you connecting you पीछे से एक बंदा connect कर दिया and like you mentioned के so for me it's really just about how you begin to play with data. Yes. Right? To identify कि यार यह बंदा सच्ची बात है मैं आपको एक बात बताऊं भी कर रहे हो. But और तीसरे level के ऊपर यह बड़ा important है. I feel like free वाला should exclusively be tied to young new doctors who are verified, who are licensed but who are just trying to build their profiles and the reason why I say this is because they solve that problem. You're not giving them impressions. You're giving them actual hard patients and letting the patient decide whether this doctor was good enough or not. And then, kungie masala esmi ya, right, que while you've pro you solved a lot of the problems that you identified, one of the problems that's still unsolved is that only a good doctor is still being able to access patients efficiently. और आपको नज़र नहीं आ रहा कि maybe there are a bunch of other doctors that can potentially rise but उनको opportunity ही नहीं मिल पा रही because they're too focused on their craft not worrying about their digital presence and their this and their that. And so do you think there can be a like this is something मैं हर startup से पूछता हूं. How do you convert your current experience into an experience जो कि पांचवीं जमात का पास कर सके? And I think you crack that code and that is where you really like and and and that's not a 1,500 per consultants fee problem because that's unaffordable. That is a problem जो कि demand and supply का problem है. Right now the fee, consultant fee is for 1,500 rupees simply because of the fact that very few doctors are looking at very large amounts of patients, and so it's cute. But you distribute all of those patients into all of these available doctors, and suddenly demand and supply, you know, evens out. And a lot of these female doctors sitting at home suddenly now begin to jump on to hop on to the system as well and so suddenly the price point drops down to 100 rupees, 200 rupees और वह पांच पांच पांच minute के हिसाब से वह doctor on average जो है वह घंटे का हज़ार रुपया कमा रहा है और वो दिन का let's say पांच घंटे काम करते वो पांच हज़ार रुपया कमा रहा है और वो उसको multiply करते हैं वो डेढ़ लाख रुपया कमा रहा है and for young doctor that's pretty good money. So the model is there. It's just that the the the the SECC sort of lower middle income and the the majority of jobless doctor is unable to be connected right now. Yes. So how do you envision that problem to be solved? Yeah, so, असमाह would you like to answer that? Yeah, sure. So, बिल्कुल मज़मिल,

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we agree because अभी जैसे हमें है कि मरहम के जो next, even अगर हम short term भी targets की बात करें तो there is, you know, definitely because for a startup आपके लिए growth pretty critical होती है. You have to ensure के आपने जो services बनाई है उसको आप उसके best potential तक लेके जा सके और आप और आप उसकी वजह से ecosystem में जिस किस्म के problem solve करना चाहते हैं वो आप कर पाए. अभी तक हमने आप अभी तक हमने जो किया that was kind of a proof of concept because Pakistan is a big market. आपके पास proof of concept में भी एक huge, you know, एक number base होती है. Right. लेकिन we know कि अब जब हमने इसको आगे इंशाला ताला scale करना है, so वहां पर this is super critical for us की we make it happen की जो है हमारे पास वो बच्चा जो की अभी लैया में है और उसने पांच जमाते पड़ी हुई है वो भी इसको आसानी इस्तेमाल कर सके और अपनी family के लिए, अपने लिए health care की services ले सके. So इसके लिए जो एक framework जो कि बनाया गया है इस growth के model को भी कहते हैं product led growth. Right. कि आप कैसे अपने product को इस तरीके से optimize करते जाते हैं कि you eventually get to a point जहा पर आप आप इसको masses के लिए open करते जाते हैं. So उसके अंदर there is a lot of data involved, there is experimentation involved, there is you know how you read through that data and then implement those kind of experiments and see कि अच्छा user की interaction कैसे बढ़ रही है and how you are going to untap this. Right. So this is super critical for us. हम इसको और with time, अभी we feel like कि अभी हमारा जो product है उसके अंदर हमने इसको easy बनाने की कोशिश की है लेकिन there is a long way where we can go where the experience can be like super easy for anybody for for like old people for even for younger people जो या even the lower middle जो हमारी community है वो उसको आसानी इस्तेमाल कर सके so with those kind of frameworks with the help of data experimentation

Muzamil

and. Do you think sorry मैं आपकी बात कर रहा do you think इसी को evolve करके आप बनाएंगे do you think के मेरे हिसाब से my thought is and again it's it's just a thought so you you you're the expert. My thought is that there are two separate audiences and both models cannibalize on the other. So you make it too simple and someone like me would be like यार यह क्या basic सी चीज़ है? मुझे तो एक मैं तो specialized चीज़ चाहिए, right? So for me the current app works. For me the current app is actually a remarkable way of you know trusting me with my intelligence and saying listen like you can choose the specialization and so बड़ा confusing सा है यह कि like which is why I said do you think is it it's going to evolve out of or or rather within the journey of the मरहम find a doctor which is also interesting because it's find a doctor and that sort of alienates a lot of बुर्दु speaking audience but और rather कि आप कहते हो कि मरहम find a doctor which is your english speaking upper middle class but an offshoot of that that's targeting an entirely different segment. ताकि वह उससे आपकी current base evolve sort of put off नहीं होती. Who's who's used to your system, who's used to your user

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experience. इसके अंदर भी again so अब जैसे कि like आप किस तरह से इसके बारे में DCN making करते हैं. That is now entirely dependent on data as well. So आप यह भी यह DCNB के whether we will be we need two separate apps or we should you know evolve this app into that one app जो कि you know different तरह के market segments को cater करी होगी और because Pakistan में एक certain diversity मौजूद है वहाँ पर हमें यही देखना पड़ेगा कि when you know we will be इंशाला growing this product towards this. Data हमें किस तरह से lead करता है, users हमें किस तरह से lead करते हैं, उनका behavior and, you know, usage over the app that will be इंशाला guiding कि यह कैसे होगा? But करना ज़रूर है इंशाला ताला. Makes sense guys better thing is कि यहाँ पर हम जो अभी फ़िलहाल इस audience को कैसे cater करते हैं कि we do have a helpline

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center as well. तो हमारे पास जो जिस time हम opportunity की बात कर रहे थे तेरीबन दो million लोग हर महीने नए लोग आते हैं जो हमारे platform पर doctors को search करते हैं और हमारे platform पर जो नए doctors हैं they they still got an opportunity with you know 2,000,000 people के they can be found over there but अभी हमारा जो call center है it receives like a high amount of calls as well कि जिनको app में उतनी level नहीं है तो वह call करके doctors का पता भी कर लेते हैं, appointment भी book करवा लेते हैं and then we we guide them separately कि how to download the app and just they click on link and they just reach to directly the area of consultation without going through the cumbersome process right now. But मुझे आपका जो idea है ना मरहम plus वाला, I I I really like that idea. To be honest, मैं अगर मुझे

Muzamil

देखें तो मुझे I may I may try that and then one day maybe give you the credit to यार बस मुझे change. Just just one last question. I'm gonna wrap this up because we're at the one hour fifty two minute mark but what's the what's the ratio of digital or or the online consultations versus in, you know, in person appointments that are being booked in the country. So currently

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जो online consultations हैं वह तकरीबन you know total bookings का 30% है और physical consultations की तरफ अभी सत्तर percent का है. Understand but I am surprised 30 लोग. Yeah so initially तो मुझे तो नहीं लगता था कि लोग के लोग जाएंगे doctors के और लोगों का बहुत trend है towards you know like mental health. वह issues जिनके बारे में वह doctor के पास नहीं हुए sexual health.

Muzamil

वह जहां पर उनको लगता है कि like physically visit करना would be a little bit difficult. So this gives them. I mean women health to be honest. Women health a lot of women don't have access to or do not have the freedom or transportation and वो बस घरों में बैठी रहती है और उनको समझना था कि हमने किससे बात करनी and for them this is a remarkable opportunity.

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Cost save करता है. कैसे करते हैं क्योंकि 138 specialties हमारे पास registered, जिनमें सब speciality, super specialty available है. वह सारी की सारी एक cities में तो हुई, एक city में तो नहीं हो सकती और again मुझे small area है उसमें तो दस specialty भी नहीं होती, right? एक

Muzamil

बैठे हुए हैं, wait करने का मेरी बारी आएगी versus, you know, you connect to a doctor in in minutes. Yeah, makes sense guys. We're, you know, gonna wrap this up. Probably one of the longest that we've done on this platform. But thank you so much for coming in and and sharing that insight. आसान, I'm gonna ask you a question. Generally, ask all of my guests and, you know, you're you're मैं publicly आपकी HRN नहीं बोलता, but, you you've been in Pakistan most of your life, but you've worked with clients and some of the top clients from all over the world. You've seen how they work as well. You eventually opened your own startup. You decided कि यार, मैं उस experience को leverage करके I'm gonna give something for to Pakistan, for Pakistan. And that requires a certain level of hope. That requires a certain level of belief and faith both in the fact that this country can will deliver and in the fact that there is a potential opportunity that can be realized and actualized. Pakistan unfortunately हर पांच या सात साल बाद एक नाज़ुक मोर से ज़रूर गुज़रता है and for business owners like yourself मैं खुद उससे हूं कि बंदा सार खुश आ रहा होता है कि यार

Guest

क्या कर रहे हैं? कर रहे हैं?

Muzamil

Sir in that context I'd like to ask you you know how do you see Pakistan twenty eight years from now micro के ऊपर show there are problems and वो सारे होते हैं but macro के ऊपर you know having seen all of whatever seeing all the variables the youth of this country the people the evolution the evolution of your own sort of audience in terms of the consumers and so on how do you see Pakistan twenty eight years from now knowing what you know now and seeing what you have seen over your life? Do you want to wrap up or do you want to answer me to answer this question because I may answer it you know. I mean go for it.

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I have a very different perspective about it because Pakistan के अंदर क्या problems हैं या कैसे problems को solve हो सकती which has enabled us to build this awesome product, right? अगर आप एक बहुत अच्छी company का culture खराब करते जाके तो वो देखेंगे वो company यूंद हो गया जाती है, right? तो अगर आप ये सोचें Pakistan के बारे में कि हम IT करेंगे, वो करेंगे, वो करेंगे हम grow कर जाएंगे तो मुझे personally लगता है कि उसके chances बहुत कम हैं. I think about it in a, in a way कि जिससे हम Pakistan के सारे लोग हैं, इनको उठाएं और Australia जाकर छोड़ दें. तो क्या Australia grow होगा या नीचे आएगा? तो मैं यह believe करता हूं मुझे लगता है मुल्की बदल जाएगा, मुल्की बदल जाएगा. तो कोई भी मुल्क जो चलता है वह अपने लोगों से चलता है. लोग कहां से चलते हैं? Culture से. Culture कहां से आते हैं? Values से और जो values हैं वह सबसे important है. हमारे पास जो सबसे बड़ा खजाना है, मुझे लगता है, जो हमारे पास secret है, वह हमें नवीपाक सलाल अलहब्सलम पहले ही दे गए हैं कि यार what is the secret to be successful? Right. देखिए इसीलिए जब हम नवीपाक सलाल का journey study करते हैं तो हम एक चीज़ भूल जाते हैं. वह यह कि जब नबीपाक सलाल अब्सलम आए उन्होंने इस्लाम की तालीमात दी उसके बाद क्या हुआ? Right. है ना? तो वह सब लोग दुनिया में भी कामयाब हो गए. Right. आपने leadership में देख लें, आप war, art of war में देख लें, economy में देख लें, सब चीज़ों में देख लें तो वह दुनिया में कामयाब हो गए. इसी तरह अगर हम बात करें आज की तो हमारे लिए यह बड़ा important है understand करना कि currently हम ऐसा क्या कर रहे हैं जो उस वक़्त वह कर रहे थे और हम नहीं कर रहे. हमारा जो ROI है मतलब return on investment कि let's say आपने कमरे में यह AC लगाया हुआ है. हम इसको कहते रहे यह बड़ा खूबसूरत है, grow करने के लिए. अगर हम उनको implement करें तो हम देखते हैं कि growth आनी चाहिए moral values में. Right. लेकिन हमारी moral values जो है वह रोज़ भरोस नीचे की तरफ जा रही हैं. Right. हम हम हम देखते हैं कि लेकिन there is a real value जो कि इस दुनिया में भी वह deliver करती है और जब हम वह एक perfect culture बनाएंगे तो that will take Pakistan forward. मैं एक आपको example देता हूं. First करें कि बस हमें उस moment का इंतज़ार है जहां पर हमारी जो young generation है, they were actually able to discover that real foundation और जब वह foundation निकाल लेंगे तो Pakistan को grow होने से कोई भी नहीं रोक सकता. दुनिया में जितनी भी बड़ी बड़ी companies हैं, जब आप उनसे बात करेंगे वो कहेंगे हम एक अच्छे culture की वजह से grow किए, अच्छे culture value से आया. तो हमारे पास तो दुनिया का बेहतरीन culture है. दुनिया की बेहतरीन values हैं लेकिन we actually will not able to get to that methodology originally कि वह values को हमने culture का part कैसे बनाना है? कैसे generation के अंदर वह values जाएंगी और उसका mechanism क्या है? और उससे हम एक जो generation बनाएंगे that will make Pakistan successful मेरा यह believe है और फिर I can talk a lot more about it कि भाई वह values को कैसे लेकर जाना है all that. But then अब

Muzamil

आपने बात छेड़ ही दी है तो मुझे मैंने गुज़र ही जाते हैं but then मेरा उसमें problem यह आता है. बात आपकी बिल्कुल दोस्त है 110%. मेरा उसमें मसला यह आता है कि अगर आप culture और और और values की बात करते हैं ना तो फिर तो मेरे एक बहुत pessimistic future नज़र आता है और उसकी वजह यह है कि उसकी वजह मेरा blame आता है दो उस पर. पहला तो यह है कि देखें आप in in that case Pakistan में there is no academic understanding, research and identification of the values of the holy prophet. जिसको फिर convert किया जाए into a social structural reformation में. Yes. Right? Yes. आप Egypt जाएं, आप Indonesia जाएं, आप Malaysia जाएं, आप even Saudi Arabia चले जाएं. वहां पर this is being run on an institutional level by people who are academics. Yes. Not individuals who were, who studied under the patronage of a religious scholar, who studied under the patronage of another religious scholar और religious leader. वहां पर वो लोग हैं जो कि अपना आकर जब यह बताते हैं कि यार मैं अगर religious scholar हूं तो मैंने दो हज़ार किताबें इस university में इस library से पढ़कर यह knowledge हासिल की है और उस knowledge की basis के ऊपर मैं यह identify कर रहा हूं कि आज के society के अंदर सबसे बड़ा मसला यह नहीं है कि हवा तीन workplace में जाकर काम कर रही हैं तो problem आ रही है. सबसे बड़ा मसला झूठ है और हमें झूठ को control करना चाहिए, Right? And इसमें भी मेरे पास बड़ा वह clear हुआ है कि this is a post colonial problem where colonization ensured that you used religion in a way that is is sort of वह and then eighties, nineties के अंदर the way that the religious sort of academics were hunted down and destroyed. But मुझे तो उसका कोई solution नहीं नज़र आ रहा है. आप कह रहे हैं हमारे पास एक सामने के सामने की लिखी लिखाई वह है. क्या कहते हैं उसे The constitution की interpretation ही आपकी जो ख़राब है. उस constitution के interpreters जो है वह they are not up to the task. They have no degrees, they have no qualification, they have no understanding and they have no what's the word for it? There is no consensus. Who do I listen to? Like do I listen to my मस्जिद's imam? Do I listen to my sects? अच्छा उसमें भी तहस लोगे. Do I listen to the YouTube scholar? Because there are 10 different YouTube scholar saying 10 different things. So, so, so, so I think I mean when I look at religion as a solution I know that's a solution But that's a very pessimistic solution because I also see that not happening. Alternatively मैं देखता हूं China को वहां पर भी उतने ही corrupt लोग थे. उन्होंने जाकर डंडा दिया. उन्होंने कहा यार सब के सब सीधे हुए खड़े हो और एक corona एक technological system बनाती है of so-so European and American systems were built around. They took honestly they saw Islam. They took the values and they were like, let's build a value system. What India right now and China right now are doing is they they're not focusing on values. I mean China is India is extremist as anything right now. But what they're doing is they're वो जो एक आपको ना और villian future नज़र आता है ना they are both of them are working on that where they are creating a very strict mechanism and a strict justice system and they are saying you do this वो है reward and दूसरा उसका opposite क्या होता है?

Guest

It may be the hardest way to do it. Right. लेकिन सवाल यह नहीं है. सवाल यह है कि do the right thing. Right. First करें कि हम कहते जी economy को हम IT के through grow कर लेंगे और इस side change कर लें. हां. लेकिन Pakistan का जो मकसद है उसके through हमने Pakistan को जो बनाया हुआ है. We cannot identify this is a difficult thing. We need to identify what is the right thing and then we need to do the right thing. जो आपने बात की वह बिल्कुल सही है. There might be a chance कि हर हर इंसान को एक बिल्कुल liberty होनी चाहिए जो US ने किया या बाकी लोगों ने किया उन्होंने church को बाहर निकाल दिया. कोई कुछ भी कहता है. Law क्या होता है? Law ही होता है, right? Right. अगर आप America में आप चाहे whoever you are आपके पास jaguar है या आप cycle पर जा रहे हैं या जो भी है, अगर आपने इशारा काटा है तो आपको सजा मिलेगी. बिल्कुल. Right? उन्होंने वह principal लिए, उनको law बनाया country का और उसको implement कर दिया in a way कि अब किसी ने license लेना होता ना. आप एक पांचवीं class का बच्चा ले आए हैं. उससे अगर दो जमा दो पांच होता है. मानेगा आपकी बात?

Muzamil

Honestly depend करता है किस coach से आए हैं.

Guest

I I I think कि उसके लिए फिर भी आपको मनाने के लिए resist करेगा. हां. Right?

Muzamil

मैंने अपनी community में भी किया तो लोग कहते कि यार आपको religion पसंद ही नहीं है. मैं कोई नहीं रहा कि आप मुझे religion पसंद ही नहीं है. Exactly. मैं तो यह कह रहा हूं कि यार जब there was a time Pakistan के अंदर जब extremist form of religion फैलाया जा रहा था और अच्छे तमीज़ के moderate मुस्लिम खामोश बैठे थे. ठीक है? When were our educated Islam, मुस्लिम class learn to take leadership role in a in in something that is super important to them and not let it be run by people who have no business in running that. You know that's all I am saying कि मैं अकेल यह कह रहा हूं कि मुझे मसला मुझे डर हो रहा है कि कितने पढ़े लिखे लोग हैं और पढ़े लिखे से मुझे बिल्कुल भी नहीं है. देखिए everybody can have a religious opinion. कोई qualification होनी चाहिए, कोई degree होनी चाहिए, कोई किताबें होनी चाहिए जो उसने पढ़ी हुई है, कोई मुतालियां होना चाहिए of comparative discourses within the religious thought and उसके बाद जाकर आप कोई कोई outcome what I like to take out from it is and what I like the audience to take out from it is again the point is not like to to separate the state and religion because और इसके बाद मुझे लहौल literary festival में दो हज़ार चौदह में I was there and and speaker said कि you know we can make Pakistan a secular state and and that will solve all our problems. मैंने उसको उनको यह बात बोली थी मैंने कहा जी. अच्छा the the the other speaker was a was a proponent of democracy. Was very against dictatorship had recently come out of dictatorship. Pakistan निकला था तो it was very against dictatorship but also said let's make it a secular country. I was like आज referendum करा लें. Public Islamic republic चाहती है तो public Islamic republic चाहती है. अब आपका solution जो है ना वह आप चुटकी बजाएं. America by the way is officially a Christian country. ठीक है? Has a has a lot of freedom. India is a secular country.

Guest 2

And go and look at the freedom in India. So just titles are not going to change anything. ईतन इसमें if I would like to add one thing is this कि हमने इस्लाम को ना as a religion बहुत brand कर दिया है. But इस्लाम is primarily a frame of framework. A way of life, yeah. Yes, it's a way of life. अब, अब अगर हम यह बात करते हैं कि अगर Pakistan ने आगे twenty fifteen में scale करना है, Pakistan need a strong culture, is a country के, you know, who we are, how we do things and a balanced one. Absolutely. Because Islam is a balanced like like if we take shortcut तो Islam is a balanced frame of work. If we like implement it in a right way which can help us to profit. Absolutely

Muzamil

absolutely and I think what I what I am trying to get at is that you know, making it a secular country is not gonna solve it. Reformation in your understanding of religion is gonna solve it. And so, you know, we have this conversation came, Islam is not bad, Muslims are bad. And that's a lazy argument because that's where we stop. Right? So, so what I'm gonna take from your your conversation is for viewers as well, मैं नहीं हूं. मैं इतना learned नहीं हूं. I'm sure बहुत सारे आप में से होंगे. Come up with solutions. Yes. You know, give us apps. Yes. Tell us how to, like, जो the problem statement उन्होंने identify की है, जो हमने discussion की है, tell us how to be connect in a spiritual way. That does not and you have सबसे important element. That does not create more disagreements. Yes. That actually brings people together. Yes. It's very easy to pander to my own crowd. Yes. You know again एक imagery रखकर, दाढ़ी रखकर, एक certain language बोलकर, एक certain accent में बोलकर, मेरी जैसे तो आ जाएंगे. जो आपसे दूर भागने हैं उन्होंने दूरी भागना है. The real problem not to crack is how can you appeal to people who are different from you? Yes. Who don't agree with you and I think वहां पर हमें एक educated religious segment की requirement है in a problem solving startup y way. Yes yes. And I think maybe we might be able to solve that problem. बड़े मज़े का आपने आज तक किसी ने यह perspective नहीं दिया. Thank you so much for sharing that but honestly thank you so much for taking the time out. I know you guys came in for all the field from Lahore.

Guest

You know, दो घंटे, बारह minute आपने इस conversation के लिए. Thank you so much for for that. Thank you so much for listening us for two hours in twelve minutes. It's it's definitely

Muzamil

play is mine. And thank you so much for conducting it in a very great and neutral way. So, am really glad and and and you know that sort of work that you guys are doing again is, it's बहुत सारी और industries होती हैं. Healthcare is something जो कि जिसमें एक मैं हमेशा यह बात करता हूँ जब भी किसी you know healthcare professional या healthcare industry के उसके साथ हो कि health care is not just a business, it's a service and so thank you for your service. I am excited to see. I mean, you know, I was not expecting the numbers to be as big as you guys, you know, have already achieved and Inshallah I am sure this is just going to grow. I am looking forward to madam plus 10 madam light. But anyways you know for all of you guys अगर आपको episode पसंद पसंद आई हो अपने दोस्तों यानों के ख्याल ज़रूर share करिएगा यहाँ पर हमने कुछ भी discuss किया हो आप agree करते इससे agree करते हमें comment section में बताएं what are your thoughts. As well. यहां पर कहीं पर easy पैसा jazz cash आ रहा होगा if you'd like to support the channel we accept anything from 1 rupee to as much as you'd like. It's a thought that counts but इसी के साथ साथ. We have a great plan for season four and so for that you know we are looking for some sort of revenue generation जो हमने दो लाख के बाद start कराता So we are going to commercialize the podcast as well. If you're from an agency or a brand, you can definitely reach out and we can talk about how, you know, we can create a partnership that is mutually beneficial. But anyways, this was Sayyam Mazamela Sanzedi. You are watching Thought Behind Things.