Studying abroad can be life-changing, but navigating the process isn’t always easy. Canadian headquartered ApplyBoard is transforming global education by connecting students with institutions and recruitment partners—simplifying every step of the journey. 🇨🇦
Co-founder Martin Basiri and his brothers built ApplyBoard with a vision to break down barriers in education. From their early days with Plug and Play to reaching unicorn status, their journey is a testament to resilience, innovation, and the power of a strong network. 🚀
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How much impact the positive impact you can have someone in someone's life kind of like pays off for all the hard work. I came from Iran to Canada to study from a masters degree. The process was pretty hard and after all, doing it for myself and helping my brothers to come here to Canada and then we started helping other people. At some point of time you're like, why don't we turn this to a website to help more? Students and make the process a little bit automated. Accidentally registered as a complete all applicable and they kept going and going and that became the largest company on planet earth, helping the students to go from one place to another place and now the largest immigration company in the world. We help over a million or students with their study abroad journey with our applications and hundreds of thousands of them successfully started and a lot of over 100,000 already finished their school and they changed their life. It just feels so good to see how much we were able to. Have a impact on their life. The first group of Afghan women. That we financed them when we grow them from Afghanistan to Canada to study for their degrees. I think the first time I've I've heard that they got their visa and then they came. It's just the hope and the smile on their face. That was the most memorable time the last 10 years that I do between these two companies or that moment, you know, they're seeing it, how much impact, the positive impact you can have someone in someone's life kind of like pays off for all the hard work. Play up play. The first time I met Rahim MD was 2016. Later on 2016 I went to China and I went to pillage and village office in China. And use that as a base office in Beijing. And I want one of these cohort program inside China that was going to different cities. And we went to Shenzhen, we went to Shia and we went to 100 Suzhou, Shanghai, go to all of these plug and plays and meet people. And then end of 2016 in the early 2017 plan polio so invested in in the company and it was fun. People will see a lot of companies here. So. They normally at the moment that you tell about the problem or something that you right away they're like, ohh, yeah, I made this company over there or we have this company in other place. So it's pretty good for connections. I found that the most value out of this for my business is international education. So I go to different places, different cities, knowing there is an office somewhere or you can like for example, recently I was looking at. Or maybe I should have a base in Middle East for a project that we were looking for. Like immediately I picked up the phone and called the plug and play person in UAE. His name is Jordan. And he's been very helpful, very like knowledgeable. He's like immediately you get connected the things. So from that portion for for my top up business that is International Development, it just done it very fast. Believe in yourself. This is a hard job so you not gonna come easy, but this is what it is, you know? Keep pushing her baby, keep pushing.
