Picking up the camera
I started photography at 2016 — not as a hobby, but as a way to understand people. Every frame was a lesson in observation, timing, and seeing what others walked past.
Building Companies. Telling Stories. Creating Impact.
Entrepreneur, co-founder of Ride Sheba, and storyteller documenting the journey of building ideas that move people forward.
About
Entrepreneur, founder, storyteller, and builder from Bangladesh — using business and the camera to move people forward.
It started in 2016 with a camera. What began as photography quickly became something larger — a way of seeing people, reading situations, and understanding the world by paying close attention to it.
Through years of shooting I developed storytelling and creative thinking, entered multiple photography competitions, and earned recognition and local awards. More than trophies, it gave me the communication and leadership instincts that come from documenting real people in real moments.
That same curiosity pulled me toward business. Real-world experience sharpened an entrepreneurial mindset — and led me to co-found Ride Sheba, a transportation platform serving customers across Bangladesh.
Today I keep doing both: building innovative transportation solutions while documenting the stories, people, and culture of a country in motion. I believe I'm part of a new generation of founders proving that world-class companies can be built right here in Bangladesh.
The Founder Story
It started with a camera and a habit of paying attention. That habit became a way of thinking — and eventually, a way of building.
I started photography at 2016 — not as a hobby, but as a way to understand people. Every frame was a lesson in observation, timing, and seeing what others walked past.
Years of shooting sharpened how I tell stories. Along the way the work earned recognition and awards across multiple photography competitions — proof that a clear point of view travels.
University years became a lab for leadership. I moved from documenting how people live to asking how I could change it — building teams, testing ideas, and learning to think in systems.
The entrepreneurial pull won. I co-founded Ride Sheba, a transportation platform serving customers across Bangladesh — built to make moving through this country simpler, safer, and more dignified.
I'm building for the next decade, not the next quarter — companies and stories that outlast the hype and leave the country a little more in motion than I found it.
The Company
A transportation platform serving customers across Bangladesh — built on a simple belief: how a country moves shapes how it grows.
Make reliable, modern transportation accessible to ordinary people — beyond the big cities, into the places most platforms ignore.
Technology and operational discipline working together, so the experience feels effortless to the rider and sustainable for the driver.
An enduring company that becomes part of how Bangladesh moves — and a model for what young founders here can build.
Impact & Achievements
A snapshot of what the work has produced — in business, craft, and community.
Co-founded Ride Sheba and helped take it from idea to an operating transportation platform serving customers across Bangladesh.
Recognized across multiple photography competitions for a documentary eye — the foundation of how I tell every story.
Built and led teams through university and venture work — turning creative instinct into operational execution.
Working toward a platform that reaches across all 64 districts — not just the capital, but the whole country.
Creating livelihoods for drivers and using storytelling to spotlight people and places that rarely get a stage.
Writing and speaking about entrepreneurship, mobility, and youth ambition in Bangladesh — building an audience for the long term.
Skills & Toolkit
A founder's range — strategy and leadership on one side, visual storytelling and modern tools on the other.
AI Toolkit — image, video & workflow
Selected Photography
Photography is a supporting craft here, not the headline — a tool for storytelling that shaped how I think as an entrepreneur and how I understand people, communities, and culture.
Selected frames, 2016 — present. Full portfolio and prints available on request.
Thoughts & Journal
Entrepreneurship
Framing, patience, and knowing what to leave out — the same instincts behind a great photo run a startup.
Future of Mobility
Technology is the easy part. The hard, worthwhile part is reshaping how a hundred million people move.
Leadership · Growth
On building for the next decade in a world addicted to the next quarter — and why patience is a strategy.
Vision for Bangladesh
I believe the next decade belongs to young Bangladeshi entrepreneurs who refuse to wait for permission — who build technology that respects the people it serves, and who treat mobility, opportunity, and dignity as one and the same problem.
Ride Sheba is one answer. The bigger goal is to show a generation that world-class companies don't have to be built somewhere else. They can be built here, by us, now.
Contact & Collaboration
Open to speaking opportunities, partnerships, media, and the right business conversations. I read every message personally.
rafisharif@ridesheba.com