What drives you to continue building and growing the business? What’s your calling? 🤗
Meet Nishan, CEO and Revenue Head of Bluestream, a design + manufacturing company based in Dubai, where he’s dedicated to creating and enhancing products and services that promote sustainable urban development. 🍃
He says it’s his calling to do so. 🫡
Nishan’s narrative is one of personal conviction—a journey woven with threads of legacy, resilience, and unyielding determination. As a steward of his father’s vision, he has not only steered Bluestream’s trajectory but has sculpted it into a beacon of progress and ingenuity.
If you live in Dubai, you must have sat on one of their many park benches for sure, and hung out in the many public spaces they’ve built that we take for granted. 🪑
A biomedical engineer by education, Nishan has over 17 years of experience in Bluestream following in his father’s footsteps – who founded the company. As a focused re-founder, he has been able to grow the company from 3 member trading organization to a full-fledged design and production facility now in Jebel Ali. 🏢
Nishan is also a member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization and was a Founding Member of Vistage Worldwide Inc’s Dubai Chapter.
In this episode, here’s what Nishan and I talked about:
✍️ 10:41 Learnings from biographies of successful people
🏇 15:58 Takeaways from the movie “Seabiscuit”
🌟 22:49 Finding your North Star and your calling
😓 31:50 Failures while scaling a business
🤝 37:03 Advice on hiring senior executives
👨 48:11 How Jeff Bezos uses the ‘Regret Minimization Framework’
🎩 1:02:57 Manage time while wearing ALL the possible hats
💵 1:41:26 The mind-blowing take on the psychology behind pricing
🤔 1:50:21 What pathological obsession means to him and much, much more!
What I loved about Nishan the most is that not only is he a book nerd like me, but he’s got this uncanny ability to reference what he’s read and apply it to all the conversations we were having.
Nishan is one of the smartest dudes that’s come on the show, he’s a life long learner and has a pathological obsession with the truth & an obsession with optimism – and that’s exactly who is this podcast is for. 🎧
This conversation is fast paced, I think it’s just the nature of how quick Nishan thinks while maintaining serious depth in the topics that we explored – this will be an absolute treat for your ears. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. 🌟
Where to find the podcast:
▶️ YouTube
🎙 Spotify
🎙 Apple Podcasts
🎙 Google Podcast
Where to find Nishan:
💼 Personal LinkedIn
🐤 Personal Twitter
🌐 Business Website
📷 Business Instagram
💼 Business Facebook
▶️ Business YouTube
🐤 Business Twitter
Where to find me:
📸 Podcast IG: @myfirstbusinesspodcast
📸 Personal IG: @the.naeem.parvez
💼 LinkedIn
🌐 Website
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