About
Fahim Mashroor is a Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur best known for creating Bdjobs.com, the country’s largest online job marketplace. Since launching the platform in 2000, he has guided it from a living‑room start‑up to a nationwide operation with more than 300 employees in 10 offices, serving millions of job‑seekers and employers every month. In 2015 Australian employment giant SEEK bought a 25 percent stake in Bdjobs at a US $25 million valuation—one of the earliest big‑ticket foreign investments in a Bangladeshi tech company. His driving mission is to shorten the distance between talent and opportunity in a country where formal hiring can still be slow.
Beyond Bdjobs, Fahim founded e‑commerce site AjkerDeal.com and social platform Beshto.com and steadily backs promising software, logistics, fintech, and retail start‑ups. He has served as president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and collected honors such as “ICT Personality of the Year,” the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce’s innovative‑entrepreneur award, and the SME Foundation’s “Best SME Entrepreneur” prize. In 2024 he joined the investor panel of Shark Tank Bangladesh, bringing two decades of hands‑on experience to prime‑time television.
Before Fame
Born on 1 October 1972 in Dhaka, Fahim grew up in a middle‑class household where his father held a government post and business ownership was unfamiliar territory. He passed his SSC at Ideal School & College and his HSC at Notre Dame College before earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics from the University of Dhaka, followed by an MBA from the university’s Institute of Business Administration in 1998.
Armed with those degrees, he spent a year as a corporate economist at Beximco Group and a brief stint on a World Bank project. Yet the emerging internet proved more compelling than a steady salary. While still a student he had already experimented with an online economic journal, sharpening both his technical curiosity and his sense that data could empower people. By late 1999 he and a few friends were sketching a digital job board—an affordable alternative to newspaper classifieds when broadband was a rarity in Bangladesh. With roughly US $3,500 pooled among seven partners, Bdjobs.com went live in December 2000 and became profitable four years later.
Trivia
- Bootstrapped start: Fahim’s bedroom served as the initial Bdjobs office, where two second‑hand computers were set up; the founders funded everything themselves for three years.
- Foreign recognition: SEEK’s 2015 investment proved that a Bangladeshi tech startup could gain the attention of the world, enticing a new generation of local entrepreneurs.
- Serial investor: Fahim now has stakes in over a dozen Bangladeshi start‑ups across logistics, fintech, health tech, and agri‑commerce.
- Industry champion: In his role as BASIS president he campaigned effectively for reduced import tariffs on software tools, assisting local IT companies to increase exports.
- Stage presence: His TEDxBUET speech, “Reaching Boundless Possibilities in the Internet World,” is popularly distributed in university technology clubs as inspirational watching.
- National accolade: In 2018 he received an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, highlighting his position as a home-grown tech leader.
Family Life
Though his work keeps him rooted in Dhaka, Fahim attributes balance to the close-knit family for managing the entrepreneurial peaks and troughs. Public records indicate that he and his wife have two children and that he frequently cites the moral compass he got from his father’s career in public service. Middle-class thrift is still an influence on his conservative strategy for expanding new business ventures. Weekends are generally spent on family outings or alone reading, something he claims revitalizes his outlook after packed weekdays of founders and product teams.
Associated With
Inside the boardroom Fahim collaborates closely with longtime Bdjobs colleagues and a new generation of AjkerDeal executives. In the wider tech scene he connects with fellow Shark Tank Bangladesh investors Sami Ahmed (Startup Bangladesh), Nazim Farhan Chowdhury (Adcomm), Golam Murshed (Majesto Ltd), Kazi Mahboob Hassan (R Ventures), Samanzar Khan (AKS Khan Holdings), and Ahmed Ali (TISTA).
