When four Pakistani entrepreneurs were nominated to Forbes’ Asia’s “30 Under 30” list for 2022, it was a source of national pride.

For their contributions to e-commerce, enterprise technology, and other industries, Zain Ahmed, Dur-e-Aziz Amna, Muhammad Saad, and Shawana Shah are featured in the business publication. In the categories of art and style, industry and manufacturing, media and marketing, and social influence, entrepreneurs have been honoured.

According to the Forbes website, “all of the awardees in the Forbes Under 30 Class of 2022 have overcome the odds: overcoming a global epidemic, supply chain bottlenecks, and isolation to establish resilient enterprises destined to impact the world.”

Dur e Aziz Amna

Dur e Aziz Amna is a Yale graduate who is Pakistani-American. She is an award-winning novelist who has published several books. Her debut novel, American Fever, is a coming-of-age story about a Pakistani Muslim girl in rural Oregon, based on her cross-cultural experiences in South Asia and the United States. Dur e Aziz Amna has contributed to Dawn, Al Jazeera, the Financial Times, and the New York Times, among other publications.

Muhammad Saad

Muhammad Saad is the co-founder of BridgeLinx, a Lahore-based company that uses a marketplace to connect Pakistani manufacturers and exporters with truckers and private fleets to help them move goods more efficiently. It also provides technical solutions for document verification, timely pickups, and cargo security.

Zain Ahmad

Rastah, a Pakistani streetwear fashion label, was co-founded by the designer in 2018. His designs have been worn by a number of celebrities, including Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar, Oscar-winning actor Riz Ahmed, and rapper French Montana. According to the Forbes description, the company “champions sustainable and artisanal designs, with goods conceived, sourced, and made in limited quantities by local artisans in Pakistan.”

Shawana Shah

Forbes recognised Shawana Shah’s work on gender equality and social impact. She is the co-founder of ‘Da Hawwa Lur,’ a platform that supports Pakistani girls, women, and transgender people on political, social, and economic levels.

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Forbes Magazine has launched its inaugural NFT collection, which features a list of 100 fake billionaire investors, allowing anyone to become a virtual billionaire.

The media organization, which is known for ranking people throughout the world based on their wealth, has established its own list of 100 fake billionaires with hypothetical portfolios and virtual net worth based on real-time New York Stock Exchange pricing. A partnership was formed based on Ethereum tokens, with cryptocurrency exchange FTX opening today, April 13th.

Forbes’ Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Supitskiy, notes that “the debut of this collection is a key milestone as Forbes embraces Web3 and digital assets, and it provides a chance for our audience to better participate in this sector as well.” Illustrators Goodog and ItsACat designed the 3D headshots.

Individual NFTs can be purchased by interested investors, who will also own the virtual billionaire’s public crypto wallet, which will be shown alongside the profile. The Forbes’ Virtual NFT Billionaires List will rate all of the NFTs. Forbes sought to engage people in Web2 and Web3 as well, according to Supitskiy. As the fictional profile’s collection of publicly owned assets on the New York Stock Exchange grows, the list will freely modify.

“We wanted to make it engaging and dynamic, and relate it back to our lists, so that people can feel like there’s something going on, that it’s not a static collection,” he continued. Every day, users can witness [their NFT Billionaires] move and change rankings.”

Forbes will continue to work with the metaverse and incorporate other elements.

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5 Companies From Pakistan Make it to Forbes Asia’s 200 ‘billion list’

Forbes magazine is the leading magazine and recently has released  Asia’s best under a billion companies list 2017.

It is definitely a proud moment for Pakistan that in many Asian companies, five of the Pakistani companies managed to secure the rank and get their names included in the annual list.

The five names that were featured in the Forbes Asia list include  Agriauto Industries, Cherat Packaging, Ferozsons Laboratories, Ghandhara Industries, and Searle Company.

How Forbes compile its ‘Best Under a Billion’ list?

Forbes makes it decision by analyzing the profitability and growth rate If the revenue if the company increases and reaches $1 billion the company is than included to the list.

There were more than 18,000 candidates but 200 were published in the list. The winning 200 produced best earnings and growth result during the current fiscal year and three-years periods.

These are the Pakistani companies that were included to the list:

The Searle Company Ltd

Searle Company is engaged in making pharmaceutical and consumer products. The company has highest market value when comparing it to other companies included in the list. As of now the market value of the company stands at $696 million.

Ferozsons Laboratories

Ferozsons Laboratories, the pharmaceutical products making company has been included in the list for the second time. Ferozsons grew almost 93 percent last year and market value of the company is $102 million. The company was founded on January 28, 1954, and is headquartered in Lahore.

Agriauto Industries

Agriauto Industries manufactures and sell automotive components for motorcycles, and agricultural tractors etc. The current market value of the company is $105 million.

Cherat Packaging

Cherat Packaging makes and sells paper sacks and polypropylene bags for the cement industry of Pakistan and has a market value of $64 million.

Ghandhara Industries

Ghandhara Industries, founded on February 23, 1966, makes vehicles varying from pickup, trucks, and buses. The current market value of the company is $113 million.

Here will want to mention that Chinese companies ruled the list and India had only three companies in the list.

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Forbes releases list of world’s most valuable technology brands

Forbes Magazine has always been collecting facts and bringing to us one of the best work. The leading magazine recently published the list of the most valuable technology brands of 2017.

Apple has kept the legacy of remaining on top. For this, the Senior Editor of Forbes, Kurt Badenhausen, said,

“Apple’s premium brand produces an average selling price of nearly $700 for its iPhones and helps the company generate more than 80% of industry smartphone profits.”

This is the seventh time Apple has become the top leading brand and it id the first ever company to cross the $800 billion mark.

The list of 100 brands was published and the total value of the brands collectively is $1.95 trillion. The list includes the famous firms and the grossing tech companies managing the top rank.

Badenhausen added,

“Technology brands continue to rank as the most valuable in the world with nine of the top 15.”

The top most list of the brands is mentioned below:

1. Apple:

The company gained a raise of 10% as compared to last year and managed to remain on the top with the brand value of $170 billion.

2. Google:

Google landed on the second position and has the brand value of $101.8 billion.

With the huge increase of of 23% value as compared to last year.

3. Microsoft:

Microsoft bagged the third position and managed a good raise of 10% and came in the list with total brand value of $87 billion.

4. Facebook:

Over the last year, Facebook had moved to an increase of 40% and reached the brand value of $73.5 billion. It was ranked fourth.

5. Amazon:

Amazon landed on the fifth number. The website gained the mouth widening raise in value of 54%. The brand has the value of $54.1 billion.

6. Samsung:

Samsung bagged the sixth position  and has gained an increase of 6% this year. It has the reached the brand value of $38.2 billion.

7. General Electric:

With the brand value of $37.9 billion and an increase in the value of 3% it has landed on seventh rank.

8. AT&T:

It has the brand value of $36.7 billion. It reached the 8th position with an increase of 12% over the year.

9. IBM:

IBM made it to the 9th position with the brand value of $33.3 billion. This year it experienced a loss of 20%.

10. Intel:

Intel made it to tenth rank with a brand value of $31.4 billion and the increase in value if 13%.

Hopefully these most valuable technology brands list will help you to figure out which one is being next big giant in technology.

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