LIVE EVENT THIS SATURDAY
First up, another live event is planned for this Saturday, 2pm New York time. It will be with Rakesh Kumar, about data engineering. He has a managed service called Geoharbor which takes customers from notebook hell to an organised, coordinated data engineering team. Sign up on LinkedIn or Discord. Or save the Calendly link yourself.
DISCORD SERVER
Speaking of which, we have a Discord server!
CLIPS
Rejected then rewarded: a startup lesson:
Why gov’t apps miss the mark:
No open data policy — the real barrier:
Find your camp with bookmarks:
EPISODE
We are privileged today to share an episode with a Pakistani geospatial firm, Seerab Technologies. Zulkifil is a co-founder and has been with the company nearly 10 years. They have their own platform for real estate developers to help customers understand the context of proposed property purchases. He gave a simple example, a property with a large hole in it is hard to spot if you don’t have a terrain map. Seerab provides that to users. He also stepped through a few prizes they have won, including from Uber. Nice to have some lessons learnt from a firm all the way over in Pakistan telling us how product development is done.
What was most interesting to hear is the timeless advice he shared applies everywhere. We’re so used to hearing it from Silicon Valley, but his is a story of applying it successfully a world away - Seerab has been in business for years.
Finally, Zulkifil talks about doing good. According to Gemini:
The Hajj is one of the world's largest annual gatherings, with over 1.8 million to 2.5 million pilgrims converging on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for five to six days of rituals. It is a mandatory, once-in-a-lifetime duty for all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable.
One may imagine with so many people scrambling across a relatively small area on foot, in an unfamiliar place, there is a risk of getting lost. So Zulkifil showed us a solution based on listening to Pakistani pilgrims going to the Hajj.
Thanks Zulkifil for taking the time!
