Scaled

Every big business starts with a single, humble step.This episode of Scaled uncovers the journey behind Karim Cattle Farm. What started as just a few goats on a family rooftop has grown into a farm with over 400 high-breed cows and calves.Nukta’s Sheraz Ahmed sits down with A. R....

What does it take to turn a small fish-selling business into a modern aquaculture venture?In this episode of Scaled, we follow Shaukat Hussain, a Karachi-based entrepreneur who moved from traditional fish selling to biofloc fish farming, a system that allows high-yield fish produ...

Pakistan is full of inspiring entrepreneurial journeys. In this episode of Scaled, we explore the story of Ibrahim Amin, who began his career selling leather jackets and went on to build a thriving business empire. What started with just three employees has grown into a group of ...

Waggles Foods Pakistan started in a small home kitchen. Today, its products are stocked in major retail stores across the country and the company is now preparing to expand into the Middle East export market. In this episode of Scaled, we explore how a local pet food startup scal...

Are books and reading dying? Munam Farid, CEO of Farid Publishers, says absolutely not. And there's good reason to trust his opinion. He's a second-generation businessman in the book industry, leading one of Karachi's most famous bookstores and publishing houses, that were establ...

Hatimi Industries is one of Pakistan’s trusted suppliers of commercial kitchen equipment, serving leading restaurants such as Kababjees, Cafe Imran, and Arizona Grill, along with hospitals and industrial kitchens. What began 40 years ago as a small shop making steel containers ha...

About 70 km from Karachi, Café Imran is now one of the region’s most popular dining destinations. But its story began 25 years ago as a small roadside dhaba with limited resources and a big dream. Founded by Imran Khan, the café grew slowly through consistent hard work, menu impr...

He never planned to run a business, but life had other ideas. In this Scaled episode, Nukta’s Habib Khan sits down with Muhammad Ebrahim Kochra, Director of Operations at COZY, to explore how studying in Canada led him unexpectedly into his sister’s small venture and how he helpe...

Meet Faaiz Ahmed, the NUST graduate who traded circuits for sandwiches and built SubDeli, Pakistan’s bold new sub brand redefining local flavor. From launching Kurtos Bistro with limited resources to creating a homegrown deli experience that’s taking over Pakistan’s fast-casual d...

A true story of grit, resilience, and vision, Mahwish Salman began her "career" as a babysitter.Now? She's a thriving founder of CEO of Data Vault, Pakistan's first AI Data Center, which not only provides IT services to local banks, hospitals, and other sectors but also caters to...