You are the darkness, you are the light
What you seek is what you sight
from The Lost Wanderer, one of 39 poems I wrote as a teenager in Karachi
I am Sameer Ahmed Khan. I write, I build Social Champ, and I hunt fish that have a sixth sense.
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.
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.
Recent writing
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- The YouTube Silver Play Button: What Actually Happens at 100,000 Subscribers How the YouTube Silver Play Button actually works in 2026, from a creator who has one: the 100K threshold, the email, the wait… 19 Jul
- Claude Code and Codex Together: My Dual-Review Setup (2026) How I run Claude Code (Fable 5) and OpenAI Codex (Sol) as adversarial reviewers with two open-source skills, and the bugs they… 18 Jul
- The Burnout I Can Blame on AI Two years of sleepless prompts, a week of drips, and everything AI built while my body gave up. 10 Jun
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.
See all 23 scans →
- Spoken at
- TEDxNUSTKarachi Web Summit Lisbon Web Summit Qatar Slush’D Karachi Techstars Toronto ’22 Collision Toronto 021Disrupt AIM Global Abu Dhabi Microsoft Nokia IEEE USAID CEO Club Pakistan Founder Institute Toronto Techstars Mentor Madness
- Featured in
- Fortune Bloomberg BBC Digiday Dawn Tech in Asia Business Recorder Business Standard The Nation TED TechJuice MENAbytes
- On the record
- Techstars Toronto ’22 TEDxNUSTKarachi 2017, “The Power of Influence” YouTube Silver Play Button, February 2026 Press kit
Want to talk?
Speaking, partnerships, or hi. The fastest path to me is a 15-minute call. Email works too.