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Water-level view of a violet sea under a pink dawn sky, one red fishing boat on a tilted horizon

I am Sameer Ahmed Khan. I write, I build Social Champ, and I hunt.

You are the darkness,

you are the light

from The Lost Wanderer, one of 39 poems I wrote as a teenager in Karachi
I reply to every email.

  • GameOChat
  • Educating Dreams
  • RemindZapp

Three startups failed before the one that worked.

Social Champ

100+ countries use Social Champ, publishing tens of millions of posts a month.

Sameer Ahmed Khan, black-and-white studio portrait

I run Social Champ from Karachi, with a team of about 32.

Zohaib coded the first prototype as my birthday gift. I tweeted it at Guy Kawasaki in 2016 and told him his book was the reason it existed. He answered. He used it. He kept pointing out bugs, and he still opens it every day. One of the world's biggest design companies talked acqu-hire in 2016 and came back in 2017. Another offer followed in 2022. We stayed.

The older part is on paper. I wrote 39 poems as a teenager. Between 16 and 17, YT magazine in the UAE printed 16 of my pieces. I have been writing far longer than I have been building.

Husband. Father of two daughters. Karachi is home.

Sameer Ahmed Khan alone on a lit stage at Karachi Slush'D, mid-talk

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Sameer Ahmed Khan speaking on a long lit stage at Web Summit Lisbon, the audience in the foreground
Web Summit Lisbon, 2022
Sameer Ahmed Khan presenting beside the red TEDx letters at TEDxNUSTKarachi
TEDxNUSTKarachi, November 2017
Sameer Ahmed Khan on the red dot at TEDx Hamdard University
TEDx Hamdard University, February 2021
Sameer Ahmed Khan on a blue stage at the SEO International Conference
SEO International Conference, 2022
Sameer Ahmed Khan presenting at OTF Wadi in Muscat, the audience seen from behind
OTF Wadi, Muscat, 2019
  • Startup Survival Guide
  • The Power of Influence
  • Coder Turned Founder
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Awards and press.

Awards

Sameer Ahmed Khan holding the P@SHA ICT Awards 2023 trophy and certificate
P@SHA ICT Awards, 2023
Sameer Ahmed Khan beside the APICTA Awards trophy at the Hong Kong 2023 ceremony
APICTA Awards, Hong Kong, 2023
  • P@SHA ICT Awards 2021 to 2025 Top Spot Winner (2025), four consecutive wins including Gold in Digital Marketing and Advertising for Consumers (2023). P@SHA is the Pakistan Software Houses Association.
  • APICTA Awards 2023 Hong Kong: Merit Award, Consumer / Digital Marketing.
  • Momentum 2017 1st place out of 180 startups, The Nest I/O. Coverage in Dawn.
  • YouTube Silver Creator Award February 2026 For crossing 100,000+ subscribers on the Sameer Ahmed Khan channel, primarily for spearfishing vlogs.

In print

  • Fortune March 2023 “How ChatGPT is being used by CEOs and what are the risks.” Sameer quoted as one of the CEOs cited.
  • Bloomberg May 2017 “Dodging Illicit Cash, Pakistan Startups Turn to VCs for Funding.”
  • BBC Urdu On the TikTok algorithm and platform dynamics.
  • Digiday April 2023 Quoted on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and its fallout for the ad industry.
  • Business Standard (India) November 2016 “This social media scheduling app is getting rave reviews from Guy Kawasaki.”

Every stage is on the speaker page, every write-up on about, and bios and photos in the press kit.

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Before any of it, a magazine in the UAE printed my work.

YT magazine, 2007 to 2009. Poems, short stories, and essays I wrote between 16 and 17, printed on paper before I owned anything that could publish itself. 23 of those pages survive as scans.

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Magazine scan of the poem Minutes Before Death, published in YT magazine Magazine scan of the poem Silence Shall Speak, published in YT magazine Magazine scan of the essay Caged, published in YT magazine Magazine scan of the short story Simplicity of Max, page one Magazine scan of the essay Peace Shall Come, published in YT magazine Magazine scan of the poem A New Leaf, published in YT magazine Magazine scan of the essay Respect Elders, published in YT magazine
A school of yellow-tailed fish over a coral reef in clear blue water.

I learned to love the ocean from my father.
Now I dive in his name.

Charna Island and Somar Goth, in the Arabian Sea. I target grouper, snapper, barracuda, and sweetlip.

The channel that documents these dives crossed 100,000 subscribers in February 2026 and earned a Silver Play Button. It is past 200,000 now. The email arrived while my father was alive. The box arrived after he was gone. It sat unopened for days.

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The YouTube Silver Play Button awarded to Sameer Ahmed Khan for passing 100,000 subscribers
February 2026
Sameer Ahmed Khan in a camouflage wetsuit just under the surface, reaching forward along a loaded speargun.

I hunt fish that have a sixth sense.

Sameer Ahmed Khan on a boat in a spearfishing wetsuit, smiling and holding up a long yellowtail barracuda, open blue sea behind him.
What you seek is what you sight

from The Lost Wanderer

I reply to every email. Not a form, not an assistant, me.

Writing, speaking, spearfishing, Social Champ, or something I got wrong on this page.

sameer@socialchamp.com
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