2 Bangladeshis make it onto the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list
Pathao Cofounder Elius was named in two categories while Cartoonist Morshed was named in one
Pathao Cofounder Hussain Elius and Cartoonist Morshed Abdulla Al have made it onto the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Asia.
Elius, 29, was listed in two categories— Consumer Technology and Big Money Startups—while 25-year-old Morshed was named in the category for Media, Marketing & Advertising 2019.
Elius, along with Shifat Adnan cofounded Pathao, the leading ride-sharing, on-demand logistics, and food delivery platform in Bangladesh.
Pathao’s motorbike and car-hailing vertical alone serves five million riders across five cities in Bangladesh, and Kathmandu in Nepal.
Elius envisions Pathao as the country’s “super app” and is inspired by one of his key investors, Indonesia’s Go-Jek. Pathao has raised over $12.8 million from four rounds of funding and is valued at over $100 million.
On the other hand, Morshed—who goes under the pen name Morshed Mishu—began transforming tragic and shocking images from wars into joyful art at the beginning of 2018.
The Bangladeshi cartoonist, with his art, hoped to show how beautiful the world would be without violence or war.
After his work went viral, Mishu was awarded the “Global Happiness Challenge” project and he was hired as a cartoonist for newspapers across Bangladesh.
Currently, he is the assistant editor at Unmad, a Dhaka-based satire magazine and the founder of Morshed Mishu’s Illustration.
