Big0 CEO Hassan Kamran spoke at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) at Lahore University of Management Sciences — arguably the best business school in the country — on entrepreneurship in Pakistan. The real, unfiltered version.
No Silicon Valley Fairytales
The talk covered what it actually takes to build something in a market where the infrastructure fights you, capital is scarce, and nobody hands you a playbook. No borrowed frameworks from ecosystems that look nothing like Pakistan's. Just the ground truth.
The Journey
Hassan shared his own path — retiring from the Pakistan Army, building Big0 from zero to international clients across the UK, Australia, and the Middle East, and developing Khan, an AI-powered project management platform, alongside it all.
The Friction Is the Filter
The core message: building in Pakistan is harder than most markets. That's not a complaint — it's an advantage. The constraints force resourcefulness, resilience, and a bias toward shipping. If you can build here, you can build anywhere.
Acknowledgements
Grateful to Zainab Amir for the invitation and the brilliant conversation that followed with SDSB students.