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Moving Bangladesh: The Origin Story of Pathao
232 pages, Paperback
Published July 29, 2026
About the author
Hussain Elius
1 book107 followersHussain M Elius is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder of Pathao and Wind.
Pathao is a super-app, based out of Dhaka, with a vision of Moving Bangladesh forward. The 10+ different services in Pathao include ride-sharing, logistics, e-commerce, food delivery, payments, BNPL, and more. Started the company in 2015 from a garage in Dhaka and scaled it to 1,500+ people. By 2021, the company has raised $50m+, scaled to reach over 5mil+ users, 50,000+ drivers, over 40,000+ merchants and 10,000+ restaurants.
In 2022, Elius founded Wind. Wind was a decentralized banking replacement built on self-custodial on-chain wallets that facilitate instant, almost free, global payments. Wind raised $3.8m, acquired payments licenses in UAE and EU, and was moving $100m+/month. Wind was acquired by Fin.com (formerly River) in 2025.
In 2026, he published Moving Bangladesh: The Origin Story of Pathao, a memoir about building Pathao and business lessons learnt from it. A movie based on it is set to release in 2027.
Elius was born and raised in Dhaka, and completed his postgraduate degree from North South University, Bangladesh. He became a Forbes 30U30 Consumer Tech honoree in 2019. He is currently based out of New York.
Pathao is a super-app, based out of Dhaka, with a vision of Moving Bangladesh forward. The 10+ different services in Pathao include ride-sharing, logistics, e-commerce, food delivery, payments, BNPL, and more. Started the company in 2015 from a garage in Dhaka and scaled it to 1,500+ people. By 2021, the company has raised $50m+, scaled to reach over 5mil+ users, 50,000+ drivers, over 40,000+ merchants and 10,000+ restaurants.
In 2022, Elius founded Wind. Wind was a decentralized banking replacement built on self-custodial on-chain wallets that facilitate instant, almost free, global payments. Wind raised $3.8m, acquired payments licenses in UAE and EU, and was moving $100m+/month. Wind was acquired by Fin.com (formerly River) in 2025.
In 2026, he published Moving Bangladesh: The Origin Story of Pathao, a memoir about building Pathao and business lessons learnt from it. A movie based on it is set to release in 2027.
Elius was born and raised in Dhaka, and completed his postgraduate degree from North South University, Bangladesh. He became a Forbes 30U30 Consumer Tech honoree in 2019. He is currently based out of New York.
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August 26, 2026
It reads like a thriller, except all of it actually happened. You'll be angry on one page and hopeful on the next, and at some point you'll put it down just to sit with what you've read. What stayed with me were the lessons about what it really takes to build something from Bangladesh. There's a lot packed in here, all of it hard-won. Worth your time.
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