A. M. Mahmud is born and raised in Bangladesh. Since a very young age he was eager to learn new things and mostly learnt by seeing others in action. He grew up as a regular shy kid and wasn’t used to talk to that many people. In the year 2014 on Discovery channel, he saw a documentary about the creation of YouTube and Facebook and how it changed lives of many people. This was an inspiration for Mahmud to do something big and impact lives of hundreds of millions of people. And one way to do this is to make an impact is through business.

So, for the next few years he with his older brother started a few small businesses with no outside capital. At one point he was lost and forgot his purpose. Until he started his junior year in high school.

Slowly his ambitions kept coming back and with $25 he started OmniDevelo, as a Software and Design company on 16th March, of 2020 (one day before national lockdown). Like everyone else he wasn’t ready for the new normal.

With zero business connections and almost no support from people close to him he didn’t know what to do. Then he started researching online and reaching out to people through LinkedIn. And this is when his major business journey began. Most people didn’t respond, many started calling bad names and only a few responded positively.

That was enough to keep him going. He made bad partnerships, trusted people who broke his trust, and made uncountable number of mistakes. And had reached a point where it felt like he hit the rock bottom. He had a number of nights when he cried and felt useless. His inner demon started calling him a failure. But the younger kid with that ambition to make a global impact and be a role model was still there.

That kid knew that Mahmud was failing because he didn’t know something. So, he began his another quest for knowledge. And what is a better place to learn than books. He started reading and finished reading 20 books in 23 days. And taught himself the art of branding through books and real-life practices. But still he had a feeling that something was missing.

So, he started his journey of self discovery and spent weeks reading, doing different questionnaires, and practiced emptying his mind. And finally, he found his true calling and what keeps him going day-in and day-out. He found his purpose that is to help people be the best version of themselves so that we can have an amazing future.

With this new found purpose he started his ‘Plays by Mahmud’ podcast for visionary learners, rebranded OmniDevelo to become a branding consultancy for mission-based organizations, and is working to build a global network of communities. Although the global network has no name yet but he aspires it to be the largest network of small communities.