Nirjhor Rahman, CEO at Bangladesh Angels

Bengalis of New York

Season 3 - Episode 23: "I've been back in Bangladesh full-time since 2014 I've worked in different elements. I worked in social entrepreneurship. I worked in running an accelerator for social entrepreneurs, grassroots entrepreneurs around the country. I think one of the realizations I had is that there's a significant talent in the country. And if we're going to change the economy we have to accelerate the transformation towards being an industrialized, very traditional economy towards a digital one. Then we have to find the entrepreneurs who are doing it. We have to find the ones that are capable of scaling their ideas. And then we have to pair them up with angel investors who can actually give them the skills, the perspectives, and obviously the capital to be able to realize it.

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