Muhammad Raza Saeed is famous Tech-Entrepreneur of pakistan. CEO and founder of Pak wheel and CEO and CO-Founder of confiz inc.

1. Muhammad Raza Saeed
Tech Entrepreneur
Presenter:
Ehatsham Riaz
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2. Who am I …?
Serial Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of multiple software products & services
companies.
 Mr. Raza is the founder & CEO of Pakistan’s #1 automotive portal PakWheels.com.
 Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Confiz Limited.
 Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Simplicant, Inc.

3. Zero to Hero
 A-levels from Bahawalpur in the year 2000 and then bachelors from LUMS
 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) competition-an idea to
implement wireless meter reading for electricity meters
 year 2005, He opened a different company, Confiz is now employing more than
300 people.
 They recently acquired another company, called Mantaq.
 In 2008, they partnered up with the original owner of Pak wheels by purchasing
the majority stake in the business.

4. Definition of Success:
 Success for him right now would be putting Pakistan’s IT companies on
the global front and achieving something noteworthy, something substantial.
 He think we would be successful if we were to take Pakistan’s IT industry to
global grounds and create good examples from within Pakistan.
Work Life Balance:
He say about this:
 I think all my waking hours are spent working.
 Ideas are popping up in my mind all the time.
 On a daily basis, about 10 to 12 hours are spent in the office. And apart from that,
because of mobile phones we always tend to stay connected.
 Sunday is the only day I don’t work and so it is devoted to family time mostly.

5. Giving Time to the Team
“I think the integral aspect of a CEO’s job is to meet with the team, align them around
an idea and motivate them into action.”
He usually walk around the office floor and randomly stop to chat with someone
about what they are working on and how the process can be further improved.

6. Fear of Running Out of Cash
“80% of startups fail because they run out of cash.” – Harvard Business Review
He say about this :
 Financials keep going up and down, but thanks to God we never ran out of cash.
 I think because Confiz was generating cash, we had the money to push
PakWheels.com. Subsequently PakWheels.com started making money of its own.
So we are just moving towards expansion.

7. PakWheels
 It the largest automotive classified site in Pakistan.
 It serves as a online marketplace for car shoppers and sellers.
 As of February 2015, it has 100,000 daily unique visitors
 In November 2014, got 3.5 million dollars from an international investor for Pak
Wheels.

8. Money Making Model for
PakWheels.com
 Advertising is a good source of income in the early stages.
 They have other segments –have products both for new car dealers as well as used
car dealers
 They also have partnerships with banks.
 They do B2B lead generation for them.
 PakWheels.com is free for consumers but for businesses they have paid products.

9. Confiz Limited
 Confiz is a full service technology company producing high performance mobility
solutions and portal applications.
 Founded in 2005
 201-500 employees
 Acquired Mantaq Systems, another technology company, in 2014 to increase
technology services
 Signed multiple fortune 500 customers and well known startups as customers.
 Specialties:
Portal Applications, Mobility, Cloud Computing, Content Management, Cross Platform
Frameworks, User Experience Design,.NET Frameworks, Windows 8, iOS/Android
applications etc

10. Simplicant, Inc
 Simplicant is a next generation, cloud-based talent acquisition and recruitment
management platform to target and effectively engage talent
 Our web-based functionality helps companies optimize the speed and cost per
hire.
 Simplicant provides a complete end-to-end solution to cover all aspects of the
hiring process.
 including sourcing, referrals, interviewing, applicant tracking, analytics and more.

11. Planning for the Future
 For Confiz, we have a three year plan ahead of us – we want to go public and we
want to list it on the stock exchange.
 In the long term, we have a very clear vision for Confiz that we want it to become
a global company from Pakistan.
 There aren’t a lot of companies from Pakistan that are eminent in the global arena.
 For Pak Wheels.com, our vision is “Think wheels, think PakWheels”.
 If you are thinking about buying, financing, insuring, or maintaining a car, or
even a bike – we want to be the go-to place for all these questions.

12. Raza’s Thoughts:
 Life, Path, Milestones and more
Life is more about enjoying the journey and not about reaching milestones ...
Path should be rewarding and meaningful and it will eventually take you to the milestones you
aspire for ...
Don't fret over milestones too much because if you do, you will always be disappointed, once
you reach one of them you will be worrying over the next one and the next one ..

13. Raza’s Thoughts:
How to be a great product development company ?
 Technology is changing everyday, we have to as well. Spend time on upgrading yourself
and your team.
 Nothing is impossible, everything around you is built by equally or less smart humans
(Steve Jobs). Just dive into it and you will figure it out ! Fear is bigger cause of failure then
lack of intellect.
 Reaching top of the world can't happen overnight, give it due time. And neither it can be
done without a good team !
 Revenue maximization should not be our goal, delivering maximum value to our customer
should be.

14. Raza’s Thoughts:
How to be a great product development company ?
 We are delivering a product not just a working piece of code. There is a difference. A great
piece of code might not be a usable/workable/marketable product. We need to think like an
end user and advise our customers like that. "Thinking" can not be just the responsibility of
our customers/managers/seniors, it's for everyone to do. We have to be the greatest product
development compay in the world ! We need thinkers, opinions and voices !
 Don't re-invent the wheel, enough has been done in the world that if we become really
good at putting things together, we will stun the world. From gems to twitter bootstrap to
open source libraries, a lot of stuff is out there for us to re-use. If you are building some
component yourself, stop, look around once more ! Be good at using google !

15. Raza’s Thoughts:
What leaders do ?
 Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity
to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
 Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.
 Leaders get into everyone's skin, exuding positive energy and optimism.
 Leaders have the courage to make unpopular decisions and gut calls.
 Leaders inspire risk taking and learning by setting the example.
 Leaders celebrate.

16. Raza advises:
Those hoping to start up their own businesses to just do it.
"If you have a dream or a vision, then you need to keep following
that goal with hard work and focus. Always be very eager to learn,
have infinite curiosity and don't give up. You will reach your
desired destination!"

17. Reference:
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/razasaeed
 http://startup.org.pk/think-pakwheels-think-confiz-think-raza-saeed/
 http://opensiliconvalleyforum.org/speakers/muhammad-raza-saeed/
 http://www.razasaeed.com/
 https://www.pakwheels.com/
 http://www.confiz.com/

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