The annual Paragon Fellowship is a platform to provide young and inspiring entrepreneurs from Asia Pacific as role models to the youth to raise entrepreneurship awareness in Asia Pacific. 100 Young Entrepreneurs and Social Change makers under the age of 30 years are selected for a one- year fellowship and their stories serve as inspiration to foster an entrepreneurial culture among the youth.Contrary to the common perception there are not just 2 or 3 young successful entrepreneurs in Asia, but that there are many young entrepreneurs and social changemakers realising their dreams and ambitions. For this reason the Paragon Fellowship program annually identifies 100 of those young people, who are profiled through blogs, interviews, videos and speaking engagements in schools and universities to showcase their entrepreneurial endeavor and to highlight that with passion and dedication youth entrepreneurship could be a desirable career choice for many of our youth.

Naveed Ahmed founder & CEO of Mustakbil.com was one of the few that were selected by the “Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship” a fellow from Pakistan. Naveed started off with mustakbil.com back in 2004 and his website is now one of the top jobsites in Pakistan.  When Farooq Abbasi interviewed him, here’s what Naveed had to say…