Rahim Fazal’s Dismissal from McDonald Turned to Big Business Opportunity

Rahim Fazal is currently thirty-six years old and a co-founder of SVAcademy in San Francisco as well as an initiator of startups. He explained how dismissal at McDonald’s transformed his entire life. According to his point of view, he perceived Canada to be mosaics while the United States to be a melting pot. He moved to the US in early 2006 where he stood out following his innovative ideas at a tender age. He was born in Vancouver later parents migrated to Canada. This followed Asians’ expulsion in East Africa. Mr. Fazal has a dual identity of Ismaili and Canadian. At the age of sixteen, he lost his part-time job at the McDonald. This made him vow not to work for fast food Company anymore. In 2000, Mr. Fazal together with his best friend Husein Kaba started MailBC Company.

The company is an online platform for web hosting and designing. The initiative yielded revenue worth $1.5-million with more than 25,000 customers and they kept the business secret from parents since their business idea came from the curiosity and business motives. He explained that when bored, they loved working with computer especially for programming. Establishing a business requires an individual to think beyond the nose. In that regard, company founders to appear almost ten times grownups. The business experience enabled the company owners to develop skills. Some of the tips constituted of selling, understanding finances, branding, among others.

SVAcademy, institution provided students with business tips besides academic work. This made Silicon Valley perception to come true. The effort was through the development of entrepreneurship skills. Most of the company stakeholders come from Canada but stayed in the US for sometimes. They tended to have commonality in work experiences, shared values and energetic. Major business opportunities in Canada employed diversity. This was evidenced areas like gender, culture, race and many others. Canadian origin helped to solve Silicon Valley elitism. He concluded that network intelligence and resourcefulness are critical virtues for entrepreneurship