Hisham Sarwar

About Hisham Sarwar

Hisham started selling design work online when nobody in Pakistan had heard of freelancing, and earned his first million dollars on platforms most of his countrymen didn't know existed. What he did next matters more. He built the association, taught for the government's national programme, and put hundreds of thousands of people through free training, which is why the Pakistani freelance economy has a recognisable figurehead at all. That gives him a view almost nobody has, sitting at the junction where international demand meets Pakistani supply, watching what actually goes wrong in both directions. He knows why good freelancers stall at a certain income and never pass it. He also knows why a client in London gets burned by an offshore hire, and it is rarely the reason they think.

1:1 Sessions

• Scaling Past the Freelance Ceiling

  60 min

  For established freelancers stuck at an income level they cannot break, usually because they are still selling hours. Positioning, rates, moving from platform work to direct clients, and when to become an agency instead. Priced for the audience that actually exists rather than the one you'd prefer.

  $500

• Hiring Pakistani Talent Without Getting Burned

  60 min

  For international companies that want offshore capacity and have either failed at it or are afraid to start. Where to source, what to pay, how to structure the work, and the specific failure modes that make Western clients abandon the model after one bad hire. Nobody is better placed to explain both sides of this.

  $500