4 Pakistanis Feature in Forbes 30 Under 30 List For 2021

4 Pakistanis have made it to the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 list for North America. These Pakistani youngsters have been included in the list for their contributions in the categories of education, marketing and advertising, and gaming.


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Here are the brilliant Pakistani minds to have featured on the Forbes 30 under 30;

Asad Malik

After moving to the US in 2016, Asad launched Jadu AR, a Los Angeles based startup that uses Augmented Reality (AR) for storytelling.

In his breakout project Terminal 3, he featured young Muslim immigrants. He also collaborated with Magic Leap to produce ‘A Jester’s Tale’.

Currently, Asad is working with Verizon to build educational AR experiences with 5G.

Danish Dhamani

Having grown up in East Africa, Danish was always terrified of speaking in classroom presentations and job interviews after moving to the US.

In 2017, he overcame his fear and founded a speech-coaching startup known as Orai (for oral AI). It has raised $2.3 million in seed funding since.

Based in Philadelphia, Orai lets users record themselves speaking and receive feedback such as how many times they say “um.”

Orai has more than 5,000 active users and its corporate clients include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Comcast, and IBM.


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Faizan Bhatti

While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, Faizan founded Halo Cars in 2019. The company raised $500,000 from angel investors soon after its launch.

Halo Cars envisaged creating new ad space on rideshare vehicles and a way for Uber and Lyft drivers to earn more money.

Faizan sold Halo Cars to Lyft within a year of its inception.

Sanaa Khan

As a program manager at Google, Sanaa is responsible for the market strategy and hardware planning for Stadia, the tech giant’s cloud gaming service.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, she introduced Stadia’s Free Play Days to help financially constrained gamers. She also heads a scholarship program for women developers.

Overall, the 10th annual issue of Forbes features 600 young entrepreneurs, activists, scientists, and entertainers from North Africa. The under 30 North American trailblazers have raised over $1 billion in venture funding.


  • So sad these people who are not even doing anything for pakistan or even residing here in pakistan are the ones featured in this list

    • Woh bhai as usual, jahan se article copy paste kia hoga ProPK ne wahan pics nahi hongi warna wahan se bagair credit diye images utha kar yahan laga dete :-)

  • If you notice, none of our creative brothers and sisters could achieve such things while living in Pakistan. A very true and sad take away from this article.
    Shows how much talent we have but it all goes to waste. Only by moving abroad we can exercise it.


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