About Abid Beli

The horse carts were his first classroom. Riding beside his father's workers, he learned to treat the man carrying the load and the man ordering the event with the same respect — what his book calls the Horse Cart Philosophy. In 1993 he joined his father's construction business; by 1995 he had his own real estate office in DHA.

In July 1998, he opened Pakistan's first cybercafé — Skynet Communication, at Clifton Centre, Karachi — at a time when most Pakistanis had never heard the word "internet." He wasn't following a trend. He was creating one. In 2000, Pakistan's first bill payment service. In 2001, Beliscity.com: Pakistan's first ecommerce platform.

Each venture taught something new. Some scaled. Most didn't. But Abid was never building for the exit — he was building for the lesson. And the lessons compounded in ways that capital never could.

2011: a Guinness World Record for the most people singing a national anthem simultaneously. 2015: Pakistan's first smartphone film festival. And through every peak and every crater, the same rule — when life says WHY ME, you say TRY ME.

Today, Abid coaches founders through transformation, consults on AI automation with Lovable as his weapon of choice, advises on real estate in two countries, and writes about what three decades of Pakistani entrepreneurship actually looks like — from the inside, unfiltered.