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Imran Khan, the Bangladesh-born strategist behind Snapchat’s success
Imran Khan was born
in Bangladesh on June 16, 1977. He
passed H.S.C from Dhaka College in 1996. During his college days, he was well
known for his debates. One of his iconic debates was during "Bangladesh
Television School Debates 1993-1994".
Some of you might
only know him because of this speech. His speech was all about himself, his
visions and most importantly he wanted to become famous and millionaire.
After passing HSC, he
moved to Colorado as a student, from there he received his Bachelors of
Business Administrative degree in Finance and Economics from the University of
Denver. Khan began his career at WildBlue, a
Denver-based satellite-broadband startup.
In 2004, Khan was hired by JPMorgan as a researcher and eventually became head of global internet and
US entertainment equity research. While at JPMorgan, Khan was ranked the second
best internet analyst by Institutional Investor’s annual rankings of
researchers.
In 2011,
Khan switched jobs to lead Credit Suisse’s Internet banking franchise. At
Credit Suisse, Khan worked on some of the biggest tech IPOs, such as Go Daddy,
Box, GroupOn, Weibo, and so on. As the firm’s head internet banker, Khan is
known for his leading role in the $25 billion Alibaba IPO, the largest ever share sale.
Khan joined Snapchat in 2015 as Chief Strategy Officer where he
directs the company's corporate strategy, including building up operation,
expanding the business partnership, running ad sales and taking a leading role
in leading the company to IPO. In his first 30 months at Snap Inc., he
helped grow revenue from $0 to $728 million.
In 2016, Khan was named the one
of the Most Indispensable Executives in Marketing, Media and Tech by
advertising trade magazine Adweek in its annual Adweek 50 List.
Khan is being awarded graciously
for his work too, raking in $5 million in bonus in 2016, on top of his $241,539
salary.
He left Snap Inc. in 2018 and that became the breaking
news all over the country. The sad part is 90% of people in Bangladesh don’t know
about him, but outside Bangladesh, he is a hotshot.
He left Snap Inc. because of Verishop, his own new e-commerce startup, which
goes head-to-head with platforms like Amazon.
His wife Cate Khan also partnered
with him who was one of the Marketing Principal
& Manager at Amazon. At the end, his dream of becoming famous and
a millionaire came true. We learned one of the most valuable things from his life, "Dream with goals because a dream without a goal is just a dream".
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