I am Sameer Ahmed Khan. I write, I build Social Champ, and I hunt fish that have a sixth sense.

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~ Karachi, 2026 ~

Three startups failed before the one that worked.

I run Social Champ from Karachi. 100+ countries, tens of millions of posts published every month, a team of about 32. Before it there were three that did not make it: GameOChat, Educating Dreams, RemindZapp.

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. Canva talked acqu-hire in 2016 and came back in 2017. Vendasta offered roughly $3M in 2022. We stayed, and we have been profitable since.

The older part is on paper. I wrote 39 poems as a teenager. Between 16 and 17, YT magazine in the UAE printed 23 of my pieces. I have been writing far longer than I have been building.

Husband. Father of two daughters. Karachi is home.

A spearfisher descending into open blue water off the Karachi coast

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. A 24-hour marathon ended with a Red Snapper's gills slicing my hand open, field-dressed with seawater miles from shore. The ocean is honest in a way meeting rooms are not.

The channel that documents these dives crossed 100,000 subscribers in February 2026 and earned a Silver Play Button. It is past 190,000 now. The email arrived while my father was alive. The box arrived after he was gone. It sat unopened for days.

▶ Watch on YouTube → See the catch log

The YouTube Silver Play Button awarded to Sameer Ahmed Khan for passing 100,000 subscribers — February 2026

Recent writing

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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. Twenty-three 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

Where this has been checked.

Forty-plus stages so far, and the write-ups that followed. These are the ones with a date and a title attached.

On stage

TEDxNUSTKarachi November 2017 “The Power of Influence.” Choosing computer science over medicine, and the poems.
Web Summit Lisbon 2022, Doha 2025 Both stages, representing Pakistani SaaS.
Techstars Toronto December 2022 Demo day, at the end of the accelerator.
Slush’D Karachi August 2023 The founder story end to end, on video.
AIM Global 2023 Startup pitch competition, ADNEC Abu Dhabi.

In print

Fortune March 2023 Quoted on how CEOs are actually using ChatGPT, and what the risks are.
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 On the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and its fallout for the ad industry.
Business Standard November 2016 “This social media scheduling app is getting rave reviews from Guy Kawasaki.”
Dawn 2020 “TECH TALK: A tool to simplify social media management.”
Business Recorder April 2022 “Interview with Sameer Ahmed Khan, CEO Social Champ.”
MENAbytes 2019 “Pakistan’s Social Champ raises $100,000 from OTF Wadi.”

The rest of it, with links, sits in the press kit.

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