Raad Ahmed

Bengalis of New York

Season 5 - Episode 4: Raad on startups, life, and philosophy. I think there's a common theme in my life where I just don't like being told what to do. And, I'm kind of a little bit of like a free thinker. Maybe that's sort of seeded the plants of like, not really ever being able to hold a steady job. I just, wasn't very good at showing up at one place at a specific time and doing the same thing over and over again. I'm just not a very big morning person. So whenever I had to sort of just forcefully wake up, that would just dampen my mood right then. I'm just like a curious person. So if I'm like told to do something and I don't really understand the why behind it, I'm just not going to be naturally into it. At Lawtrades, we hire people that really have to be sort of like self-starters and self managers, and just be generally curious. I’m good with like, sort of setting the stage and setting the vision and giving them why, letting them know why this work is important and the impact they could have, on the greater society, if we succeed. I use a simple approach found the different companies that I built. There needs to be some sort of cycle that it goes through, which one thing leads to another. for example, a platform like Uber, the more Uber drivers on the road equals faster transport and a more successful product. So, I think that about a lot of things in life and in business that it's helpful to just look at it as a high level framework to know that over the next 10 years, if you do this thing, there's going to be some sort of compounding effect to that. Listen to the entire conversation with Raad Ahmed, Founder of Lawtrades, on the BoNY Podcast. Available on all Podcast platforms and on BengalisofNewyork.com/bony-podcast. Subscribe and share. Link in bio. Also, Amazon Alexa/Echo knows us! Just say, “Alexa, play BoNY Podcast.

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