I was a madrasa student, then a Hafez, then a teacher. Nobody saw a founder coming. Least of all me.
I was a madrasa student. Then I became a Hafez. I memorized the entire Quran. Then I became a teacher.
For years, I taught at a madrasa. My world was the Quran, my students, and a schedule that didn't leave much room for anything else. I wasn't thinking about business. I had no particular interest in it.
Then I found the internet. I started selling things online. Gadgets, whatever I could figure out. I was bad at it. Then I got less bad. Then I started learning digital marketing properly.
What made it click was this: teaching the Quran is fundamentally about communication. Taking something complex, breaking it down, making sure the person in front of you actually understands it. Marketing, I slowly realized, is the same skill aimed at a different problem. I had been practicing it for years without knowing it.
The madrasa wasn't a detour. It was the training.
I started Social Geek in June 2021. No investment, no prior agency experience. Just a clear read on what Bangladeshi SME businesses needed that most agencies weren't giving them.
The first couple of years were difficult. We figured things out by doing them wrong first: running campaigns that didn't work, understanding why, fixing them, and slowly building an approach that got consistent results. Not by following industry templates, but by paying close attention to how Bangladeshi buyers actually behave.
Social Geek is now a 15-person team. We've worked with hundreds of SME and e-commerce clients across Bangladesh. In 2025, I launched Geek Studio separately, because Social Geek's marketing clients kept needing better content, and I wanted a team fully dedicated to that.
This work is harder than I expected it to be when I started. That hasn't changed.
In July 2020, during COVID, I co-founded Qaumi Uddokta.
Bangladesh produces tens of thousands of madrasa graduates every year. Many of them are educated, disciplined, and trusted in their communities. But when it comes to business, digital tools, marketing, starting a company, they're almost entirely left out. The entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bangladesh barely notices they exist.
I came from that world. I knew what these graduates were capable of. I also knew that nobody was building something specifically for them.
Qaumi Uddokta started small. Over five years it has reached 30,000+ entrepreneurs across Bangladesh through training programs, community building, and a national summit called Qaumi Uddokta Sammelon 2025. We signed an agreement with biniyog.io to connect our community to halal investment options.
I'm a Hafez. This community is my community. This is the most personal thing I've built, and probably the work I'll still be doing long after everything else has changed.