Arzish specializes in community building, entrepreneurship, youth advocacy, and innovation travel. The youngest global graduate from Founder Institute, a highly celebrated Silicon Valley accelerator, has hosted many leading entrepreneurs, technology experts and investors including in his talk shows and has directly helped 100+ startups and SMEs in global exposure.

He is the brain behind Pak-US Tech Exchange, the largest independent tech exchange program connecting Pakistan and Silicon Valley. His exposure from being Pakistan's youth representative at Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 in Stanford, Organization of Islamic Corporation's Youth Entrepreneurship Forum 2017 and 2018 in Kazan, Russia, Startup Grind Global Conference 2018 in Silicon Valley, Web Summit 2018, Startup Grind Barcelona Conference, SXSW2019 and Oslo Innovation Week etc. brings the gamut of relevant experiences and rich understanding of the field. He uses this to empower the youth of his nation with similar worthy global exposures, network, and experiences.

He further leverages his leadership as the Islamabad Chapter Director for Startup Grind to create a robust and well-knitted entrepreneurial ecosystem in Pakistan, he's the lead organizer of the Startup Grind Pakistan Conference which hosted 50+ global tech leaders in Islamabad. He is also an alumnus of Plan9 – Punjab Information Technology Board’s Technology Incubator and the National Incubation Center in Islamabad.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I needed a place to stay for a few days after the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 in Silicon Valley when I discovered couchsurfing and I've been on it since. CS is the best way to meet the locals in a new place, experience the life of that city perfectly. The best thing about CS is the community that It's built around, CS community is so helpful, supportive and you can count on them because these people have had the same experiences.

Interests

Marketing, Tech, Gadgets, eCommerce, Startups, Travel, Lifestyle, Nightlife, Electronics, Cars, Life, Boredom

• technology
• physics
• startups

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pursuit of Happiness, Iron Man Series, The Avengers, Gravity, The Five, This is the End. Music: Sufi Music, Punjabi Rap, Hip Hop, Eminem, and many more. Books: The Alchemist, Siddhartha, The Art of the Start 2.0, Quiet by Susan Cain, Rich Dad Poor Dad

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Started my first business at the age of 16, Started a Free Food Camp at 17, Started my first Startup at 18, Graduated Founder Institute as their youngest grad worldwide at 19, My first trip to Silicon Valley, CA for Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit at 20, Lead a delegation of 22 entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley at 21

Teach, Learn, Share

Being a young entrepreneur in an emerging economy I want to share my experiences and learnings with people around the world and hear their life stories. The more you explore the more you learn.

What I Can Share with Hosts

An amazing sense of humor, Fun experiences from my short and adventurous career, How to start a startup and how to fail several 😅

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, England, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Pakistan, United States