Saad Mohseni

Initially, it was a bunch of students tutoring girls on WhatsApp.

Now we have a WhatsApp AI chatbot.

And we have 250,000 kids that use it.

It's a bridge between a time when we have education and a time when hopefully we'll have education for girls.

We went back because the country had...

had been taken over by the Americans and the allies.

And we felt there was an opportunity to set up a media business.

And we started off with a radio station because at the time, most people didn't have electricity.

They certainly didn't have television sets.

And radio was sort of, it's probably perhaps the safest media platform because you need batteries.

Everyone has a radio set.

It's easy to operate.

It's cheap to operate.

And we felt it's a simple business we can do on a part-time basis, continuing to reside in Australia.

And that wasn't the case.

And that allowed us then to build TV stations and other platforms and then move beyond Afghanistan to the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia, and then eventually Africa.

Well, I think because we had music, which people were not really accustomed to after five years of the Taliban.

And it was literally people showing up at our door to kill us.

And we had this very simple office in a residential dwelling with no security.

And during the trials, we had this thing that let's do this for a couple of weeks and see how it goes.