Zuby is a trailblazing entrepreneur and innovator, recognized as the inventor and founder behind Think and Zoom, an award-winning brain control assistive tech solution for the visually impaired. Zuby has received the prestigious Mass Challenge Health-Tech Startup Choice Award in 2020.

As a disability advocate and “eye for good” evangelist to the United Nations, Zuby champions inclusive innovation and the elevation of disabled user-innovators. With a background in computer engineering and a powerful lived experience of vision loss, Zuby’s journey is a testament to creativity, resilience, and impact-driven entrepreneurship.

💡 What You’ll Learn from Zuby's Journey:

🔸 Embrace Relentless Curiosity: Zuby urges aspiring founders to become “knowledge thirsty”, to develop an insatiable appetite for learning, spanning both related and unrelated fields, as groundbreaking ideas and solutions often emerge at unexpected intersections.

🔸 Persevere Through Uncertainty: His story highlights the unpredictability and setbacks faced in both life and business. Maintaining a strong sense of purpose (“your why”) is essential to navigate obstacles and keep moving forward, even when progress seems impossible.

🔸 Solve Real Problems, Start Small: Many of Zuby’s ventures, including Think and Zoom and Kowa Credit, originated from his personal challenges. He demonstrates the value of launching minimum viable products quickly and iterating based on lived experience, while also later learning the importance of diligence and research for long-term success.

🔸 Champion Inclusive Innovation: Zuby stresses the urgent need for disabled innovators to lead the creation of assistive technologies. By empowering user-innovators and investing in specialized accelerators or labs, society can develop solutions that benefit both the disabled community and mainstream users.

You can connect with Zuby on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ to follow his journey.

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