Elius, Morshed Al named in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list

Two Bangladeshis were named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list of 2019. The two Bangladeshis are Pathao Cofounder Hussain Elius and Cartoonist at Morshed Mishu's Illustration Morshed Abdulla Al. 

Forbes, the American business magazine, also published a short biography on Hussain Elius and Morshed Abdulla Al.

WHO IS HUSSAIN ELIUS? 

Hussain Elius and Shifat Adnan (over 30) cofounded Pathao, the leading ride-sharing, on-demand logistics, and food delivery platform in Bangladesh.

Today, its 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, according to Forbes.

Pathao has raised over $12.8 million from four rounds of funding and is valued at over $100 million, reports Forbes.

WHO IS MORSHED ABDULLA AL?

At the beginning of 2018 a Bangladeshi cartoonist under the pen name Morshed Mishu began transforming tragic and shocking images from wars into joyful art, hoping 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.

HOW IS THE LIST MADE?

Forbes presented this year’s edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list after choosing from over 2,000 entries which was heavily researched by a team of reporters and vetted by an A-list of judges.

The list represents people from 23 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, reports Forbes.

Source: thedailystar