Wednesday, October 23, 2019

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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