In a country where corporate jobs have long been considered the only “stable” profession, the success of Airlift is inspiring entrepreneurship.
After graduating from college in 2016, Yahya Humayun jumped headfirst into management consulting. He joined Ernst & Young in Lahore as an associate consultant. But within a year, he realized that the job wasn’t the right fit for him. Humayun wanted to do something that was fast-paced, created an impact, and changed lives. His big break came in 2019, when he joined Pakistani e-commerce giant Airlift Technologies as a customer experience optimization executive. “They were solving a huge problem for Pakistan at the time — [they were] solving for mass transit,” Humayun told Rest of World.
From Airlift, he joined two other startups before setting out to launch his own venture, Pattern, an app looking to disrupt the restaurant dine-in and takeaway space, where little innovation has taken place over the years.
Humayun credits his time at Airlift, and the company’s founders, for part of his success. They “inspired me and many others in the growing startup ecosystem in Pakistan, and they have helped our team at Pattern raise a six-figure angel round,” he told Rest of World.
The atmosphere at the Airlift office was inspiring, Humayun recalls. He and his colleagues would talk about solving the next big problem during lunch and coffee breaks. “Back then, there was so much inefficiency in the B2B retail supply chain, and when the pandemic...
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