Usman Asif

technology entrepreneur and head of Devsinc

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Usman Asif is the CEO and founder of DevSinc. Asif received a job offer from a company and worked there for a while. He then joined another company.

Early life and background

Asif was born in Rahim Yar Khan and raised there. He describes it as a city that is very close to a village. He says the only jobs available in Rahim Yar Khan were at a mobile shop and two or three banks. He says his family was regarded as landlords but had no land, and that no one in his family was an entrepreneur. [1][10]

His father died when he was a child. His mother was a government school employee, and Asif says she worked very hard to support the family. He and his family stayed in his maternal aunt's house. He has one brother and one sister. [1][10]

Asif describes himself as an average student as a child. He says he was very lazy growing up and was into computer games, and that he had no guidance available. [1][10]

Education

Asif received his early schooling in government schools, taught in Urdu medium. He started FSC in 2002 and says he barely reached first division. He says he was strong in math and weak in other subjects. After FSC his mother gave him 5,000 rupees and told him to go to Lahore. [1]

He took the decision to study computer science and did not tell anyone. He says he asked his roommate, and everyone told him that telecom engineering was the thing. He was admitted to computer science as his first preference, and says he came to love programming once his first program ran. He graduated in 2008. [1]

Asif says his time at FAST was very difficult. He says GPA has never been important to him, that a scholarship was never an option for him, and that he received an F grade in one semester. He says excellence is a lifestyle, not a question of GPA, and that he is still the person with the lowest GPA at Devsinc. He says he feels he did not live his university life properly. [1][8]

His mother sold her jewelry to help pay for his education, and his family borrowed money to pay his semester fees. He says his mother sponsored his university education. [1][10]

Asif took a cryptography course. He applied for a master's programme and was admitted, and says his low GPA meant he could not otherwise do a master's degree. He went to Stanford for technology entrepreneurship. He says that as a CEO he was recently re-admitted to Harvard, and that education is an ongoing process. [1][10]

Early career

Asif received a job offer from a company and worked there for a while. He then joined another company. He says he found open source work more enjoyable, and that money was his main motivation. [1]

He says he did not want to build his own company at first, and that his early goal was to make money, because he was very poor. He says he was never greedy and was always looking for freedom. He built an app of his own and launched it. [1][10]

Asif says he tried to find a job outside Pakistan and could not. He then started a business in Pakistan. He chose to start with freelancing and took freelance projects on Odesk. He says his mother had retired, so family responsibilities meant he could not take a risk, and he planned a product-based startup. [1][10]

Exam checking software

Asif started building exam checking software. He says he saw that exams in FSC were checked unfairly, and that he built an AI-based system, around 2011, to check handwritten exams automatically. He says he funded the product with money from freelancing. [1][10]

He says the product's first deal was with the government of Pakistan, which was very difficult to work with. He says the project gave him data from the whole Sindh board, and that the government paid him in advance after he said he could not proceed without it. He says the scanners the project needed were not widely available in Asia. [10]

He says AWS blacklisted his company on the day the project started. He bought a small DigitalOcean server after the AWS block and hired many local people. He says it took two to three weeks to find working scanners and internet, and that he told the government that everything was on plan. [10]

Asif also describes a bid in which he says one bid was one crore and his bid was 13 crore. He says he described his company as the most expensive player that provides quality and feedback to students, and that he was both the CEO and the accountant. He says he won the project, that he was trusted and all the money was released beforehand. He says he went to Sukkur himself, and the whole project was conducted there and was very successful. [1]

His team built a SaaS product, and he says the first project paid 10,000 US dollars. He says he shut down the product because he judged it was not sustainable. He says he then left the startup and built a services company again. [10]

United States and Silicon Valley

Asif moved to the United States and took a job there. He says that in the US he realized he had to burn his boats. He says he packed up everything in Pakistan and left. He took a job at a startup based in Seattle, and says he is a startup person and not a job person. [1][10]

He says he tried hard to find another startup or project, did not find one, and booked a flight back to Pakistan. He says it took three days to reach California. He says he and another person became co-founders and started working together in San Francisco. [1]

Asif joined an HR company as a technical co-founder, and says his business partner is now the chief business officer. He says one of the products he co-founded had a very good exit, and that he had multiple successful exits. He says he pitched to Y Combinator more than once. [1][10]

He lived in Silicon Valley for about eight years. He says being in Silicon Valley really helped him, and that he was offered many chances to co-found apps while there. He says building the business took about eight years of effort before it became visible. He says he met many startup people in Silicon Valley and spent six months on this question, doing a great deal of research. [1][10]

Devsinc

Asif says he moved back to Pakistan with his family, and that he returned because he felt he belonged in Pakistan. He says his wife supported the decision to return. He says he chose services over products so he could stay in Pakistan, and describes himself as a product person at heart. [10]

Asif has said he came into the job market and spent six months in the local Pakistan industry. He has said he built a company in Pakistan that served foreign clients, one hundred percent of them in the US. He says he runs a company of about 2,000 people and refers to his company as Devsinc. He has said he runs the second or third largest IT company in Pakistan, and says he personally runs his business. He says no single relative of his works at Devsinc. [2][4][10]

In 2017 the company had roughly 70 to 80 employees. Asif says he has worked in the industry for 13 years. He says what he wanted was 80,000 engineers, because that is what it takes for a 10 billion valuation at a 4x return. He says a company was willing to buy his startups in Pakistan for 5 million US dollars. [1]

Asif has said his company did not believe in hierarchies, and that people in his company are directly responsible for their work and need no approval from the CEO. He has said that structure stopped working at around 1500 people, when the company passed roughly 2000 employees. He has said favouritism and organisational challenges began to appear in the structure, and that his company is also dealing with too much bureaucracy. [5]

He says he wants to take a company he started through to an IPO, and that he asked whether he should make his company public. He says he wants to be in the technology leverage business, and that a services company and a product company have different DNA. He says he has a personal mission and a company-wide mission. [8][10]

Online presence

Asif has said he chose to come online and become an influencer, and that a CEO should be active on social media. He has said he replied to every person who reached out to him on Facebook. He says he offered to hire someone on the spot and told him to make a CV, and that he told someone that his job was to secure interviews and to come back only with rejections. He says fame makes a person a slave to their own persona. [5][8][10]

He has said he did not receive guidance that would have helped him a lot, and that people tell him they started their own businesses, which gives him energy. He says he wants a child watching today to take inspiration that they can get somewhere, and that a nation needs to grow from here. [4][8]

Views on Pakistan and the technology industry

Asif says the solution to Pakistan's problem is to build a services-based company, not a startup-based company, and that tech services companies coming to Pakistan is the only solution. He says consumption-based startups are not conducive. He expects Pakistan to have multiple billion dollar companies within 10 years. He tells investors to invest in Pakistan if they want to make money. [1]

He has said Pakistan's IT industry is made up of services companies that train engineers to serve foreign products, and that the industry is stated at 4.5 billion dollars, but he thinks the real figure is lower. He has said US companies usually outsource their non-critical work to Pakistan, and their critical work never gets there. He has said his solution was to be in the US and work with US companies to gain exposure. He has said the H1B success rate is about 23 to 27 percent, almost worse than a lottery. He has said nobody cares about services companies anymore, and that people in the IT sector know how industry works. [2][5]

He says it is better to be a first-class citizen of a third-class country than the reverse. He says Pakistan is his family's root and where they belong, that Pakistan is not negotiable for him, and that he wants to live there. He says he wants his children to grow up in Pakistan. [1][10]

He says business is concerned with consistency of policy more than with which party governs. On tax, he says that kind of tax is causing people to leave Pakistan, and that he has proposed that businesses be taxed. He says he wants to fix Pakistan's logistics problem. He has said liquidity is a serious problem in Pakistan, that there is no acceptance of failure in Pakistan, and that self-pity is the top reason people in Pakistan are not successful. He has said he would not want to work in government. [5][10]

Views on education

Asif has said he is very worried about a generation that compares education with employability. He has said people cite others who earn without a degree to question why education is needed. He has said that thinking of education only for employability is decreasing its value, and that people in Pakistan judge a university's success by employment outcomes, not by research or brand value. He has said education is the number one problem in Pakistan, one that could solve many other problems if fixed. [2]

He has said Pakistan had 78 universities and now has 262, and that Pakistan has more universities than before but fewer students. He has said admission rates in Pakistan have dropped a lot, and that some universities admit 10,000 to 12,000 students without enough faculty or industry backing. He has said Pakistan's industry has shrunk rather than grown threefold. [2]

He has said owners of large companies tend to hire from the universities they own, by default, and that he knows no big name in Pakistan who runs an enterprise company without also running a university. He has said computer science graduates in Pakistan are not getting jobs, and the market is getting worse as it moves toward gig work. He has said the graduates coming out of universities were not usable for him. [2][5]

He has said the salary gap between a computer science teacher and a recent graduate is very large, and that teachers who do not know programming will not be able to teach it to students. He says a few universities have recently increased the salaries of teachers. He has said that if proper salaries are paid, the business model is not cost effective or profitable. He has said the country is producing graduates taught by teachers who are not relevant. [2][5]

He has suggested that universities run incubation centres that steer students toward solving local problems. He has said an education model does not work unless every player in it is taken care of, and that the industry has never given universities this kind of support. He has said a university was a sandbox for trying out different ideas. [2][8]

He has said some universities' graduates usually do not end up working in Pakistan's local industry. He has said he can guarantee top universities have higher average statistics than non-top universities, and that he is sure people worldwide are not committing to four-year education. He calls it the MBA phenomenon, in which everyone chased an MBA after engineering had been the usual choice, and has said there is an abundance of MBAs doing nothing and computer science is going through the same pattern. [2]

He says a degree still has value, that a well-known university gives a great network and credibility, and that about 90 percent of people should go to university. He has said education should not be guesswork, and has advised that education decisions should not be made without mentorship. He has said that asking someone first can save many years. He has said parents often ask him whether education is worth it, and he sometimes does not know the answer. [2][9][10]

Views on AI and careers

Asif says he does not believe in the reasoning of AI and that AI is nowhere near replacing a normal human. He has said AI is very good for research and execution but not for learning, and that AI can communicate without limit, which a human cannot do. He has argued that a teacher is not reliable either. He has said exams still judge whether an answer is correct, even though students use AI to answer questions. [2][10]

He says AI now automates repetitive tasks, which leaves room for creative work, and that he hated his old job because it was repetitive. He has said that using AI tools too much and relying on them kills the purpose of creative work, that AI use should be limited a little, and that a song written with an AI chat tool did not feel creative to him. He has said many people are now selling ChatGPT and AI courses. He has said Pakistan has many agriculture problems and that AI can be applied to many things. [2][8][10]

He says demand is rising in AI, data science and cyber security, and he advises young people to study computer science. He advises against becoming an iPhone or Android engineer and advises young engineers to focus on learning core concepts. He has said basic computer science should be a skill that everyone learns, and that non-specialists do not need to know in detail how Python works. He has said the safest job in the coming years will be that of entrepreneurs, and has suggested data science or cyber security as options. [8][10]

Views on work and success

Asif does not suggest that young people think in terms of business, and says a business starts when you see a problem other people do not see. He says the journey of building a business does not have to be risky, and that a core mission should guide a person, and everything else is an outcome. He says success means making new mistakes rather than repeating them. [10]

He says a remote job is not a business, and that contracting and self-employment mean selling solutions at a premium rate. He says people should try to become owners, and that earning money is a good reason to work, as long as it is done with values. He says managing humans is difficult and that nobody wants to be managed. He has said competition in Pakistan is usually about talent rather than customers, and that companies can collaborate to make the industry overall larger. [4][8][10]

He has said money does not necessarily make people happy, but lack of money probably makes them sad, and that financial freedom matters for women as well as for men. He has said the desire to be liked makes him feel he is not free. He has said he wants to get through failures faster to reach the next success, and that the outcome of a situation is not within his control. He has said that life looks like tragedy up close and comedy from further away. [8]

He has said he did a lot of stock investing and also took the Series 65 exam, and that on Wall Street he saw people follow patterns too closely. He has said people are not God, and that math and history are the only things they have. He has said the outcome does not define the decision matrix, and that people should train their minds to stop attaching to outcomes and to attach to fundamentals instead. He has said numbers sometimes take time to follow, and that people who stay attached to the process eventually succeed. [9]

Personal life

At 20 Asif wanted to marry and have four children by 30. He says travel was not his passion, and that he adopted it from others. He says he should have spent more time with his family, and that people need to take care of family, hobbies and religion as well as money. He has said that while building wealth and being ambitious, one should also focus on family life, and that he wishes he could see his children grow up. [8][10]

He has said every day is a new day for him and that he cannot wait to grow old. He says he looks forward to coming to the office on Monday. He has said he wishes he could have done better in general, and that he is proud of working hard when he was young. He has said that going to the gym and sleeping well keeps his overall day happy. [8][10]

Asif published a YouTube video titled 'A Look Into My Day', which he planned to cover a normal average day. He says he lives in one home and his mother lives in another, and that the house was built around trees that were already on the site. He says a home should be a person's safe place, even if they must give up a lot for it, and that space matters a lot in a combined family. He says his favourite time of life is winter mornings in Lahore. [4]

He says he usually starts his day around 10 or 11 in the morning and spends an hour or less at the gym before going to the office. He says he has a home office where he works, and that the office shown in the video is where he works. He says the office can seat about 300 people, and that his workday at the office runs until around midnight. [4]

He says he owns a mechanical keyboard, has a little interest in perfume, and has always bought expensive watches. He has said he has been to six or seven convocations. [4][5][8]

Timeline

2002
Started FSC.[1]
2008
Graduated in computer science.[1]
2011
Built an AI-based system to check handwritten exams automatically, around this year.[10]
2017
His company had roughly 70 to 80 employees.[1]

Appearances

DateTitleWhere
2023-03-31 Usman Asif hit his 7.2 million dollar goal, then kept building Thought Behind Things
2026-09-11 EP07| Do We Still Need Universities? | Future of Job & Education | Roundtable: Dissecting Education Usman Asif
2025-05-01 The Summit of Shadows - A K2preneur Film | K2, GGLA & Beyond Usman Asif
2026-01-16 A Look Into My Day | Usman Asif ft. Ghar, Office or Qawwali Usman Asif
2025-05-06 EP15 Why the System Fails: Government to Education | Majlis w/ Usman Asif ft. Ibrahim Hasan Murad Usman Asif
2025-12-12 EP05 | S2 | Behind the Headlines | Media, Attention & Modern Life | Usman Asif ft. EON x BBC Usman Asif
2026-08-14 EP05 | What's Broken in Our Classrooms? | Roundtable: Dissecting Education ft. Bao G (Belal Hashmi) Usman Asif
2025-03-19 EP6 Marriage, Life, and Reality of Tech Industry | Majlis With Usman Asif Ft. Salim Ghauri Usman Asif
2026-10-09 EP09 | Pt 2 | Which School Is the Best in Lahore? | RoundTable: Dissecting Education Usman Asif
2025-09-16 Freelancing to a million-dollar business: Story of Usman Asif | The Cost of It with Wajeeh Hussain The Cost of It - Wajeeh Hussain

Frequently asked questions

What does Usman Asif do?

Usman Asif runs a company he refers to as Devsinc, which he has said is the second or third largest IT company in Pakistan. He says he personally runs his business. He has also said he chose to come online and become an influencer.[2][4][8][10]

Where is Usman Asif from?

Usman Asif was born in Rahim Yar Khan and raised there. He describes it as a city that is very close to a village. He says Pakistan is his family's root and where they belong.[1][10]

Where did Usman Asif study?

Usman Asif studied computer science and graduated in 2008. He has said his time at FAST was very difficult. He went to Stanford for technology entrepreneurship, and says that as a CEO he was recently re-admitted to Harvard.[1][10]

What company does Usman Asif run?

Usman Asif runs a company of about 2,000 people, which he refers to as Devsinc. He has said it is the second or third largest IT company in Pakistan. He says no single relative of his works at Devsinc.[2][4][10]

Did Usman Asif work in Silicon Valley?

Usman Asif lived in Silicon Valley for about eight years. He joined an HR company as a technical co-founder and says one of the products he co-founded had a very good exit. He says he moved back to Pakistan with his family.[10]

What does Usman Asif say about services companies in Pakistan?

Usman Asif says the solution to Pakistan's problem is to build a services-based company, not a startup-based company. He says tech services companies coming to Pakistan is the only solution. He expects Pakistan to have multiple billion dollar companies within 10 years.[1]

What does Usman Asif think about AI?

Usman Asif says he does not believe in the reasoning of AI and that AI is nowhere near replacing a normal human. He has said AI is very good for research and execution but not for learning. He advises young people to study computer science.[2][10]

References

  1. Usman Asif hit his 7.2 million dollar goal, then kept building . Thought Behind Things , 2023-03-31.
  2. EP07| Do We Still Need Universities? | Future of Job & Education | Roundtable: Dissecting Education . Usman Asif , 2026-09-11.
  3. The Summit of Shadows - A K2preneur Film | K2, GGLA & Beyond . Usman Asif , 2025-05-01.
  4. A Look Into My Day | Usman Asif ft. Ghar, Office or Qawwali . Usman Asif , 2026-01-16.
  5. EP15 Why the System Fails: Government to Education | Majlis w/ Usman Asif ft. Ibrahim Hasan Murad . Usman Asif , 2025-05-06.
  6. EP05 | S2 | Behind the Headlines | Media, Attention & Modern Life | Usman Asif ft. EON x BBC . Usman Asif , 2025-12-12.
  7. EP05 | What's Broken in Our Classrooms? | Roundtable: Dissecting Education ft. Bao G (Belal Hashmi) . Usman Asif , 2026-08-14.
  8. EP6 Marriage, Life, and Reality of Tech Industry | Majlis With Usman Asif Ft. Salim Ghauri . Usman Asif , 2025-03-19.
  9. EP09 | Pt 2 | Which School Is the Best in Lahore? | RoundTable: Dissecting Education . Usman Asif , 2026-10-09.
  10. Freelancing to a million-dollar business: Story of Usman Asif | The Cost of It with Wajeeh Hussain . The Cost of It - Wajeeh Hussain , 2025-09-16.
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  1. Usman Asif was born in Rahim Yar Khan. I was born in Rahim Yar Khan. Yeh South Punjab ka ji aakhri shehar hai and raised there also.
  2. He was raised in Rahim Yar Khan. I was born in Rahim Yar Khan. Yeh South Punjab ka ji aakhri shehar hai and raised there also.
  3. He received his early schooling in government schools, taught in Urdu medium. Meri initial saari jo education hai woh government school se hui aur pure Urdu medium
  4. His father died when he was a child. So my father died very early in my childhood.
  5. His mother was a government school employee. My mother was a government servant, sarkari school ki mulazima thi.
  6. He and his family stayed in his maternal aunt's house. meri khala ka wahan pe ghar tha and so we were staying in her house.
  7. He has one brother and one sister. So one brother, one sister other than me.
  8. His mother worked very hard to support the family. she worked very, very hard for us.
  9. His mother sold her jewelry to help pay for his education. I think my mother um ended up selling her jewelry from her nikah and what not to to afford my education.
  10. His family borrowed money to pay his semester fees. Um loan liya, pata nahi kya kuch kiya, kaise hum log ek ek ek ek semester ki fees kitni mushkil se diya karte the.
  11. He started FSC in 2002. 2002 ki jab maine apni FSC start ki.
  12. He says he barely reached first division in FSC. Matlab main barely first division tha.
  13. He says he was strong in math and weak in other subjects. So I was very sharp in math, I was very bad at otherwise.
  14. After FSC his mother gave him 5,000 rupees and told him to go to Lahore. FSC ke baad my mother told me ke yeh 5,000 rupaye hain, Lahore chale jao.
  15. He describes himself as an average student as a child. I was a very average kind of student
  16. He took the decision to study computer science and did not tell anyone. So I took the decision of computer science, I didn't tell anyone.
  17. He says he asked his roommate, and everyone told him that telecom engineering was the thing. Main apne roommate se pucha, sabne kaha ke nahi hai, telecom engineering is the thing.
  18. He says he came to love programming once his first program ran. Turns out ke I loved it.
  19. He was admitted to computer science as his first preference. I was selected on my first preference, which was computer science.
  20. He graduated in 2008. Uh I graduated in 2008, yes.
  21. He says his time at FAST was very difficult. Khair um toh Fast ka time badi mushkil se guzra ji.
  22. He says GPA has never been important to him. So GPA has never been my thing.
  23. He says he is still the person with the lowest GPA at Devsinc. I am still the lowest GPA guy in DevSync by the way.
  24. He says a scholarship was never an option for him. Scholarship toh kabhi zindagi mein sawal hi paida nahi hota mere liye.
  25. He received an F grade in one semester. Toh ek semester mein F aa gaya.
  26. He says excellence is a lifestyle, not a question of GPA. Maine kaha yeh question nahi hai, excellence is a lifestyle.
  27. He received a job offer from a company and worked there for a while. Um Udan se job offer aayi, wahan pe mera raha kuch arsa.
  28. He then joined another company. Toh main Senses mein chala gaya.
  29. He says he found open source work more enjoyable. mujhe open source mein zyada maza aa rahi thi
  30. He says money was his main motivation. I want to make a lot of money. Money is my motivation, bro.
  31. He built an app of his own and launched it. Coding stack ka maine naam rakha, maine apni app banayi aur maine usko launch kar diya saath hi.
  32. He says he resigned that night. Us raat ji humne resign diya.
  33. He took a cryptography course. Cryptography Dr. Rizwan sahab padha rahe hain main janta nahi kaun hai.
  34. He applied for a master's programme and was admitted. Maine us semester mein apply kar diya aur mera masters mein admission ho gaya.
  35. He says his low GPA meant he could not otherwise do a master's degree. Mera GPA kam tha ke kam mein masters nahi kar sakta.
  36. He took freelance projects on Odesk. Odesk naya platform tha wahan pe freelancers aate the to humne usse project uthaye.
  37. He started building exam checking software. So I started building eduleaf.com which was an exam checking software.
  38. He says one bid was one crore and his bid was 13 crore. Oh it was way unki ek crore ki bid thi, meri 13 crore ki bid thi.
  39. He says he described his company as the most expensive player that provides quality and feedback to students. we are the most expensive player but we provide quality and feedback to your students
  40. He says he was both the CEO and the accountant. I am the CEO, I am the accountant
  41. He says he won the project. Turns out ke I I won the project.
  42. He says he was trusted and all the money was released beforehand. Nisar sahab did trusted me. He released all the money beforehand.
  43. He says he went to Sukkur himself, and the whole project was conducted there and was very successful. Khud gaye Sukkur aur recruitment ki wahan pe sara project conduct hua. Bahut successful hua.
  44. He says he packed up everything in Pakistan and left. We packed everything in Pakistan. We just went.
  45. He took a job at a startup based in Seattle. Yeh yeh job thi Zamobi was a startup. It was a startup. Based in Seattle.
  46. He says he is a startup person and not a job person. Yaar, I am a startup guy. I am not a job guy.
  47. He says he tried hard to find another startup or project, did not find one, and booked a flight back to Pakistan. maine bahut koshish ki ki ek aur startup, ek aur project aa jaye, par nahi mila. Toh what I did was ki I booked a flight for Pakistan, I came back.
  48. He says it took three days to reach California. Teen din lage ji humein California pahunchne mein.
  49. He says he and another person became co-founders and started working together in San Francisco. we became the co-founders and we started working together in San Francisco.
  50. He went to Stanford for technology entrepreneurship. I went to Stanford for technology entrepreneurship
  51. He says he pitched to Y Combinator more than once. I pitched to Y Combinator multiple time
  52. He says he had multiple successful exits. I had multiple very successful exits.
  53. He says a company was willing to buy his startups in Pakistan for 5 million US dollars. Edulift, all my startup in Pakistan, Devzink, jo kuch bhi, jitne employees hain, saara kuch, some company is willing to buy for $5 million US dollars.
  54. He says he wants his children to grow up in Pakistan. I really want my kids to grow up in Pakistan.
  55. He says the solution to Pakistan's problem is to build a services-based company, not a startup-based company. Pakistan ki problem ka solution is to build a services based company, not a startup based company
  56. He says he met many startup people in Silicon Valley and spent six months on this question, doing a great deal of research. Silicon Valley mein bahut saare startups walon se mila, bahut zyada research ki, 6 mahine tak maine is baat pe laga di hai
  57. In 2017 the company had roughly 70 to 80 employees. This is 2017. We have roughly 70-80 employees.
  58. He says he has worked in the industry for 13 years. I've been in this industry for 13 years.
  59. He says what he wanted was 80,000 engineers, because that is what it takes for a 10 billion valuation at a 4x return. what I wanted was ki yaar 80,000 engineers, because that is what it takes for 10 billion valuation at 4x return.
  60. He says tech services companies coming to Pakistan is the only solution. tech services company Pakistan mein aayengi that's the only solution
  61. He expects Pakistan to have multiple billion dollar companies within 10 years. next 10 years mein inshallah ho jayega ke we will have multiple billion dollar companies inshallah within Pakistan.
  62. He says consumption-based startups are not conducive. pehla woh consumption based hai, which is not conducive.
  63. He tells investors to invest in Pakistan if they want to make money. If you want to make money, invest in Pakistan.
  64. He says it is better to be a first-class citizen of a third-class country than the reverse. it's best to be a a a first class citizen of a third class country keh lein
  65. He says Pakistan is his family's root and where they belong. Pakistan is obviously our root. We belong here.
  66. He grew up in Rahim Yar Khan, which he describes as a city that is very close to a village. I grew up in a in rahim ya khaan. It's a city but it's very close to a village city.
  67. He says the only jobs available in Rahim Yar Khan were at a mobile shop and two or three banks. the only jobs that were available within rahim ya khaan was either ek mobiling ki shop thi, do tin banks the and that's about it.
  68. His mother was a government servant. My mother was a government servant and we were.
  69. He says his family was regarded as landlords but had no land. sort of in a landlord family but we didn't have any land.
  70. He says he was very lazy growing up and was into computer games. I was very lazy. I was into computer games.
  71. He says he had no guidance available when he was growing up. I did not have a guidance available.
  72. He says no one in his family was an entrepreneur. pahli baat to hamaari family mein koi entrepreneurs tha nahin.
  73. He says he did not want to build his own company at first. I did not want to build my own company, there was no such thing.
  74. He says his early goal was to make money, because he was very poor. The only thing that I wanted was to make money because I was very poor
  75. He says he was never greedy and was always looking for freedom. I was never greedy, I was always looking for freedom.
  76. He describes himself as an engineer. So being an engineer I want to know exactly how much money is a lot of money.
  77. He says he tried to find a job outside Pakistan and could not. I tried everything. I couldn't find a job outside.
  78. He then started a business in Pakistan. And so I had to start a business in Pakistan.
  79. He moved to the United States and took a job there. main US gaya aur main job par chala gaya
  80. He says that in the US he realized he had to burn his boats. mainne yah realize kar liya ki boss ab na you have to burn your boats
  81. He chose to start with freelancing. Main freelancing se start karoonga.
  82. He says his mother had retired, so family responsibilities meant he could not take a risk. Meri mother got retired from her job sarkaari job. Nau hazaar rupe dhanghaat hi kya thi aur ab unke unko bhi obviously zimmedaari hai. To risk le sakta nahin hai.
  83. He planned a product-based startup. Mainne yah socha ki ham ek startup karenge ek product based business.
  84. He says he saw that exams in FSC were checked unfairly. mainne FSC ki hui hai aur FSC mein exams jo hote hain vo unfairly checked hote hain
  85. He says he built an AI-based system, around 2011, to check handwritten exams automatically. jo ki AI based system tha 2011 11 ki baat kar raha hoon jo ki hand written exams ko aise based exam ko automatic check kar dega
  86. He says he funded the product with money from freelancing. us chiz ko fund karne ke lie mainne freelancing se paise nikaale
  87. He says the product's first deal was with the government of Pakistan, which was very difficult to work with. It was the deal I got was from government of Pakistan and it's very difficult to work with government of Pakistan.
  88. He says the project gave him data from the whole Sindh board. the poore sindh board ke aur bachchon ke aur vah data mere paas aaya
  89. He says the government paid him in advance after he said he could not proceed without it. Mainne unse kaha ki aap advance pay nahin karenge to main yah nahin kar sakoon. Unhonne mujhe advance pay kar diya
  90. He says the scanners the project needed were not widely available in Asia. Aise scanners se hi hai jo ki poore Asia mein available nahin hai.
  91. He says AWS blacklisted his company on the day the project started. jis din project shuroo hua na us din AWS ne hamen blacklist kar diya
  92. He bought a small DigitalOcean server after the AWS block. Phir I came back I digital ocean ka ek chhota server kharida
  93. He hired many local people. Local bahut saare logon ko hire kar liya
  94. He says it took two to three weeks to find working scanners and internet. it took me 2 3 weeks to find out the actual scanners, the actual internet
  95. He says he told the government that everything was on plan. Meanwhile government ko bata rahe hain sir everything is on plan.
  96. His team built a SaaS product. Hamne ek sas product banaaya.
  97. He says the first project paid 10,000 US dollars. Hamen pahla project mila 10000 US dollars ka.
  98. He says he shut down the product because he judged it was not sustainable. I shut down that product. Kyonki I realized ki this is not sustainable.
  99. He says he then left the startup and built a services company again. To I left my startup. Then built the services company again.
  100. He says success means making new mistakes rather than repeating them. What I defined success is ki you just keep on making new mistakes. You are not repeating your mistakes.
  101. He joined an HR company as a technical co-founder. So I joined Sapping HR as a technical co founder.
  102. He says his business partner is now the chief business officer. My business partner is right now our chief business officer, Andy.
  103. He says one of the products he co-founded had a very good exit. We had a very good exit on that product because that was a future product.
  104. He says being in Silicon Valley really helped him. Being in silicon valley really helped.
  105. He lived in Silicon Valley for about eight years. So I lived in silicon valley for 8 years.
  106. He says he was offered many chances to co-found apps while in Silicon Valley. I can be a co founder of another app and another app and another app.
  107. He says building the business took about eight years of effort before it became visible. It took 8 years of effort. It just become visible.
  108. He says he moved back to Pakistan with his family. We came back to Pakistan.
  109. He says he returned because he felt he belonged in Pakistan. To I realized ki when I was in Pakistan I felt belonged.
  110. He says his wife supported the decision to return. My wife supported me on that too
  111. He says he chose services over products so he could stay in Pakistan. Services mein bhi isi lie vaapas aae ki agar Pakistan mein rahna hai to product nahin karenge services karenge.
  112. He describes himself as a product person at heart. varna main I am actually a product guy.
  113. He says he runs a company of about 2,000 people. I am right now running a company of 2 thousand people
  114. He refers to his company as Devsinc. I would not change DevZing's business.
  115. He says a services company and a product company have different DNA. A services DNA is different, a product DNA is different.
  116. He says he wants to take a company he started through to an IPO. I want to see a company that I started till IPO.
  117. He says he wants to be in the technology leverage business. I want to be in the technology leverage business.
  118. He says managing humans is difficult and that nobody wants to be managed. Managing humans is a difficult thing. Nobody wants to be managed.
  119. He says business is concerned with consistency of policy more than with which party governs. We are concerned with the consistency of policy.
  120. He says that kind of tax is causing people to leave Pakistan. That kind of tax will is causing our people to leave Pakistan.
  121. He says he has proposed that businesses be taxed. main uska solution bhi diya hua hai ki yaar hamen as a business tax karen
  122. He says he wants to fix Pakistan's logistics problem. yaar main logistic ka masla Pakistan fix karoonga.
  123. He says Pakistan is not negotiable for him, and he wants to live there. 1 for me Pakistan is not negotiable. I want to live in Pakistan.
  124. He says the journey of building a business does not have to be risky. the journey in itself doesn't have to be risky
  125. He says a core mission should guide a person, and everything else is an outcome. At the end of the day your core mission should be your mission. Everything else is an outcome
  126. He does not suggest that young people think in terms of business. I do not suggest anyone to think in terms of business.
  127. He says a business starts when you see a problem other people do not see. You see a problem that other people are not seeing and it becomes very clear
  128. He says he does not believe in the reasoning of AI. I do not believe in AI I do not believe in the reasoning of AI.
  129. He says AI is nowhere near replacing a normal human. I don't think it's anywhere near replacing a normal human.
  130. He says he hated his old job because it was repetitive. I hated my job because I was doing Monday in task. Every single day I come, I do the same task again.
  131. He says AI now automates repetitive tasks, which leaves room for creative work. Now with AI those things are automated. Now I I can do really creative stuff with programming.
  132. He says demand is rising in AI, data science and cyber security. Huse increase in demand in AI, in data science, in cyber security.
  133. He says a degree still has value. Degree ki value aaj bhi hai.
  134. He advises young people to study computer science. vah zaroor computer science mein jae that's a very good field to be.
  135. He advises against becoming an iPhone or Android engineer. Don't become an iPhone engineer. Don't become an Android engineer.
  136. He advises young engineers to focus on learning core concepts. usko focus karna chaahie learning the core concept.
  137. He says a well-known university gives a great network and credibility. Bada naam badi university ka gives you a great network, great credibility.
  138. He says about 90 percent of people should go to university. 90 percent cases mein you should go in a university.
  139. He says that as a CEO he was recently re-admitted to Harvard. As a CEO of a company I just got re admitted to Harvard
  140. He says education is an ongoing process. So so education is an ongoing phenomenon.
  141. He says his mother sponsored his university education. Many pahli universities my mother sponsored me. She was very poor looking she sponsored me.
  142. At 20 he wanted to marry and have four children by 30. I was 20 years old. I wanted to get married have 4 kids by the age of 30.
  143. He says travel was not his passion, and that he adopted it from others. It was not my passion. We adapt passion from each other.
  144. He says he started going on podcasts and moved into brand building. To I start going on podcast, brand building aur sab mein chala gaya.
  145. He says fame makes a person a slave to their own persona. When you become famous, you are essentially a slave of your own persona.
  146. He says he should have spent more time with his family. I should have spent more time with my family.
  147. He says people need to take care of family, hobbies and religion as well as money. understand ki there are 6 other things that you need to take care of. Your family, your hobbies, your religion.
  148. He says a remote job is not a business. Remort job bhi business nahin hai.
  149. He says contracting and self-employment mean selling solutions at a premium rate. So so contractorship ya self employment it's about providing solutions and selling your services as a premium rate
  150. He says he looks forward to coming to the office on Monday. I really cannot wait to come to the office on Monday.
  151. He says he has a personal mission and a company-wide mission. So there are 2 missions. Ek mera personal mission hai aur ek company wide mission hai.
  152. Asif has said he came into the job market and spent six months in the local Pakistan industry. So, I came in the market. I did a 6 months job in the local Pakistan industry.
  153. Asif has said he built a company in Pakistan that served foreign clients, one hundred percent of them in the US. And when I build a company that was providing services for the foreign clients hundred percent US in Pakistan
  154. Asif has said he runs the second or third largest IT company in Pakistan. I am running the second third largest IT company in Pakistan. I am telling you this is the reality.
  155. Asif has said Pakistan's IT industry is made up of services companies that train engineers to serve foreign products. This industry is made up of services companies. Right. Services companies are training engineers to serve some other countries product right
  156. Asif has said Pakistan's IT industry is stated at 4.5 billion dollars, but he thinks the real figure is lower. So, most of our 4.5 billion dollar industry in IT, this is the these are the stated numbers, right? So, I think the numbers are actually lower
  157. Asif has said US companies usually outsource their non-critical work to Pakistan, and their critical work never gets there. So when US companies outsourcing their work, they are usually outsourcing their non critical work. Right. Their critical work never gets to Pakistan.
  158. Asif has said his solution was to be in the US and work with US companies to gain exposure. My solution for this problem was only to be in the US and to have the exposure to work in the US companies.
  159. Asif has said the H1B success rate is about 23 to 27 percent, almost worse than a lottery. with H1B is going to 23 percent, 27 percent success rate, it's almost worse than the lottery system.
  160. Asif has said a person is as strong as the problems they have solved. I personally believe that you are as strong as the problems that you have solved.
  161. Asif has said a person who has solved n problems can reach n plus 1, but cannot jump there straight away. If you can solve n problems you will be able to solve n plus 1 problem but you cannot jump to n plus 1 right away and then be able to perform.
  162. Asif has said he is very worried about a generation that compares education with employability. And I am very worried about the generation which is comparing education with employability.
  163. Asif has said people cite others who earn without a degree to question why education is needed. So people usually give me examples of ok so look at this guy, he didn't do a degree program, he is earning this money.
  164. Asif has said education is the number one problem in Pakistan, one that could solve many other problems if fixed. education is in our opinion the number 1 problem that if fixed can solve many problems for Pakistan.
  165. Asif has said a university was a sandbox for trying out different ideas. And the university was a sand box for us to try out different ideas.
  166. Asif has said AI is very good for research and execution but not for learning. In my opinion, AI is very good for research, very good for execution, but not good for learning.
  167. Asif has said exams still judge whether an answer is correct, even though students use AI to answer questions. Students are using it to answer questions and our reward system and our exams are still the old way where they are judging if they are, if the answer is correct or not
  168. Asif has said that thinking of education only for employability is decreasing its value. When we think of education for employability, I think we are not valuing education itself more. I think that's decreasing their value.
  169. Asif has argued that a teacher is not reliable either. But my argument is that so is a teacher is not reliable either.
  170. Asif has said AI can communicate without limit, which a human cannot do. Because AI can do infinite communication, a human cannot do that.
  171. Asif has said some universities admit 10,000 to 12,000 students without enough faculty or industry backing. people are taking emissions of 12000, 10000 students you know and they don't have faculty, they don't have any industry to back these numbers.
  172. Asif has said Pakistan had 78 universities and now has 262. we used to have 78 universities. Now we have 262 universities.
  173. Asif has said Pakistan's industry has shrunk rather than grown threefold. Our industry industry has not grown 3 times. Actually it has shrunk.
  174. Asif has said owners of large companies tend to hire from the universities they own, by default. And so their preferential by default goes towards hiring their own university.
  175. Asif has said he knows no big name in Pakistan who runs an enterprise company without also running a university. I do not know any big name in Pakistan who is running an enterprise company and not running a university.
  176. Asif has suggested that universities run incubation centres that steer students toward solving local problems. can be to have your good incubation center where you tell students to may be focus on solving local problems, not focusing too much on the global problems.
  177. Asif has said Pakistan has many agriculture problems and that AI can be applied to many things. There is so many agriculture problem. AI can be applied on on many different things.
  178. Asif has said the country is producing graduates taught by teachers who are not relevant. Wow, we are producing a nation which is wow taught by teachers that are not relevant.
  179. He says a few universities have recently increased the salaries of teachers. What I see about the faculty in general recently NIT few other universities have increased the salaries of teachers.
  180. Asif has said that if proper salaries are paid, the business model is not cost effective or profitable. I've seen that okay, it's if proper salaries are paid, this business model is not cost effective. It's not profitable at all.
  181. Asif has said an education model does not work unless every player in it is taken care of. And if we do not take care of every player, the model does not work.
  182. Asif has said parents often ask him whether education is worth it, and he sometimes does not know the answer. Most of our parents they ask me this question and sometimes I don't know the answer.
  183. Asif has said people in Pakistan judge a university's success by employment outcomes, not by research or brand value. So in Pakistan people do not judge a success of a university by how good their research papers are, how good their brand value is, they judge it by employmentity.
  184. Asif has said computer science graduates in Pakistan are not getting jobs, and the market is getting worse as it moves toward gig work. Employability people in computer science are not getting jobs. That's the reality of the market as of today and it's getting worse by worse because we are moving towards gig economy.
  185. Asif has said nobody cares about services companies anymore. We used to be services company nobody cares about services company anymore.
  186. Asif calls it the MBA phenomenon, in which everyone chased an MBA after engineering had been the usual choice. I call it the MBA phenomenon. So the MBA was launched everyone was going for MBA. Before that it was engineering.
  187. Asif has said there is an abundance of MBAs doing nothing, and computer science is going through the same pattern. And we have abundance of MBAs not doing anything right now it's a CS computer science which is going through that.
  188. Asif has said some universities' graduates usually do not end up working in Pakistan's local industry. Their students usually do not end up in Pakistan. They don't come in local industry.
  189. Asif has said he can guarantee top universities have higher average statistics than non-top universities. I can guarantee the top university stats will be on average higher than a non top universities.
  190. Asif says he is sure people worldwide are not committing to four-year education. I am sure it is the case worldwide also people are not going for 4 years education and they are not committing to that.
  191. Asif has said admission rates in Pakistan have dropped a lot. Particular the admission rates in Pakistan has dropped a lot.
  192. Asif has said Pakistan has more universities than before but fewer students. This problem where we are now having more universities but lesser students.
  193. Usman Asif published a YouTube video titled 'A Look Into My Day'. A Look Into My Day | Usman Asif ft. Ghar, Office or Qawwali
  194. He planned the video to cover a normal average day. Aaj yah plan kiya hai ki aaj ham cover karenge a normal average day.
  195. He says he lives in one home and his mother lives in another. I live there, my mom lives here.
  196. He says the house was built around trees that were already on the site. To hamne kya kiya ki hamne un drakhton ke around hi ghar bana liya
  197. He says his favourite time of life is winter mornings in Lahore. Mera sabse favourite time of my life is kardiyon ki subah in laahaur.
  198. He says a home should be a person's safe place, even if they must give up a lot for it. Bishak sab kuchh chhodna pad jae uske lie, home should be your safe place.
  199. He says he owns a mechanical keyboard. especially bhai yah dikhaen aap, keycharon ka mera mechanical keyboard.
  200. He says he has a little interest in perfume. thoda bahut perfume se shauk bhi hai
  201. He says he usually starts his day around 10 or 11 in the morning. Khair normally I start my day at around 10 11 ish in the morning
  202. He says he spends an hour or less at the gym before going to the office. So 1 hour or less in the gym and then you go to the office
  203. He says he has a home office where he works. This is my home office where I work.
  204. He says the office shown in the video is where he works. this is my office by the way, this is where I work.
  205. He says he personally runs his business. mera mera hi main hi business chala raha hoon iska
  206. He says no single relative of his works at Devsinc. So we in DevZink no single relative of mine is working, not a single relative.
  207. He says his workday at the office runs until around midnight. then the hustle and bustle starts which ends at around midnight.
  208. He says today is also his company's annual day. Mittings ho gai hain aaj hamaara annual day bhi hai
  209. He says the office can seat about 300 people. Tin sau log baith sakte hain.
  210. He says he wants a child watching today to take inspiration that they can get somewhere. vah yah inspiration le ki yaar main kahin pahunch sakta hoon
  211. He says earning money is a good reason to work, as long as it is done with values. Paisa kamaana is a good why, is a good why as long as you are doing it with your values.
  212. He says people should try to become owners. Owner hokar bhi job par hote hain aur kuchh log job par hone ke baabajy bhi hona hote hain to try to become an owner.
  213. He says a nation needs to grow from here. As a nation we need to grow from here.
  214. He says space matters a lot in a combined family. Space jo hai na bahut zaroori hai.
  215. He says he has been to six or seven convocations. I have been to 6 7 convocations but I have never seen a convocation like what happened in UMT.
  216. Asif has said liquidity is a serious problem in Pakistan. Pakistan mein liquidity is a serious problem.
  217. Asif has said there is no acceptance of failure in Pakistan. Pakistan mein to yah failure ka acceptance hai nahin.
  218. Asif has said he replied to every person who reached out to him on Facebook. Facebook par log reach out karte main har bande ko javaab diya karta tha
  219. He says he offered to hire someone on the spot and told him to make a CV. How about main abhi hire kar loon? To aur tumhaara tum aise karo tum CV banao.
  220. He says he told someone that his job was to secure interviews and to come back only with rejections. your job is to secure interview. Sirph rejection lekar aa jao mere paas
  221. Asif has said self-pity is the top reason people in Pakistan are not successful. number 1 reason of not successful people in Pakistan is self piti
  222. Asif has said he would not want to work in government. I would not want to work in government.
  223. Asif has said the graduates coming out of universities were not usable for him. mainne feel kiya ki haan jo graduates aa rahe hain vo mere usable nahin hai
  224. Asif has said people in the IT sector know how industry works. Hamen pata hai industry kaise chalti hai
  225. Asif has said the salary gap between a computer science teacher and a recent graduate is very large. uski salary versus ek student aapka graduate hota hai uski salary mein zamin aasmaan ka farq hai
  226. Asif has said teachers who do not know programming will not be able to teach it to students. you will end up with teachers jinko programming nahin aati and hence they will not be able to teach programming to students
  227. Asif has said his company did not believe in hierarchies. We did not believe in hierarchies. We thought it's our old concept.
  228. Asif has said people in his company are directly responsible for their work and need no approval from the CEO. Everyone is directly responsible individual of the thing that they are doing and they don't need an approval from the CEO.
  229. Asif has said that structure stopped working at around 1500 people, when the company passed roughly 2000 employees. that structure stopped working at the size of 1500 when we crossed roughly 2000 employees
  230. Asif has said favouritism and organisational challenges began to appear in the structure. Favouritism shuroo ho gaya aur masle aur actually organizational challenges.
  231. Asif has said his company is also dealing with too much bureaucracy. Ham bhi isi problem se guzar rahe hain ki yaar isko karna chaahie, this is just too much bureaucracy now.
  232. Usman Asif hosts the Majlis episode featuring Ibrahim Hasan Murad. Majlis w/ Usman Asif ft. Ibrahim Hasan Murad
  233. Usman Asif has said he asked whether he should make his company public. second I asked ki should I make my company public or not?
  234. Usman Asif has said he chose to come online and become an influencer. I choose to come online and become an influencer.
  235. Usman Asif has said he did not receive guidance that would have helped him a lot. Mujhe vah guidance nahin mili thi jo ki bahut help kar sakte hain.
  236. Usman Asif has said people tell him they started their own businesses, and that this gives him energy. I find people here and there that says ki yaar mainne apna kaam start kiya, mera itni employees hain itni badi kam hi van gai yah ho raha hai and I really that makes my day. I get my energy from that.
  237. Usman Asif has said competition in Pakistan is usually about talent rather than customers. Competition in Pakistan is usually not about customers, it's about the talent.
  238. Usman Asif has said a CEO should be active on social media. CEO jo hota hai vah usko social par aaana chaahie. CEO can talk about things and and it's ok.
  239. Usman Asif has said companies can collaborate to make the industry overall larger. We can collaborate to make this industry overall large.
  240. Usman Asif has said the industry has never given universities this kind of support. Hamne kabhi aisa industry support bhi to nahin kiya hai university se
  241. Usman Asif has said that using AI tools too much and relying on them kills the purpose of creative work. So mere yah khyaal hai ki using tools too much and live on them kill the whole purpose of your creative.
  242. Usman Asif has said AI use should be limited a little. Limit karna chaahie thoda sa AI ke use ko.
  243. Usman Asif has said many people are now selling ChatGPT and AI courses. Chat GPT aur AI courses abhi itne zyaada log bech rahe hain.
  244. Usman Asif has said a song written with an AI chat tool did not feel creative to him. Phir mainne chat hi pith kiya aur mere se behtar usne likh diya, thik? Phir mainne usko jab song mein nikaala na to mujhe feel hua ki vah creative song nahin hai.
  245. Usman Asif has said the safest job in the coming years will be that of entrepreneurs. The safest job in coming years will be of entrepreneurs.
  246. Usman Asif has suggested data science or cyber security as options. Data science ho sati hai ya cyber security ho sati hai.
  247. Usman Asif has said basic computer science should be a skill that everyone learns. I understand ki mainne jaise computer science as a skill to sabko hi aani chaahie basic computer science.
  248. Usman Asif has said non-specialists do not need to know in detail how Python works. Python kaise work karti hai, web kya hota hai ki itni detail mein jaani ki zaroorat nahin hai
  249. Usman Asif has said he feels he did not live his university life properly. Mujhe feel hota hai ki university ki life mainne ji nahin properly.
  250. Usman Asif has said he always bought expensive watches. ghadiyon mein main hamesha expensive khadiyaan mainne karta tha hamesha se.
  251. Usman Asif has said that going to the gym and sleeping well keeps his overall day happy. Mainne gym se hi kiya hua hai. Meri raat ki sleep se hi hui hai. To mera overall din happy hi rahta hai.
  252. Usman Asif has said the desire to be liked makes him feel he is not free. if I have the desire ki you you like me na to mujhe lagta hai ki main free nahin hoon. You control my emotions. I don't want that.
  253. Usman Asif has said money does not necessarily make people happy, but lack of money probably makes them sad. That money makes you happy, that's not right but lack of money makes you sad, that's probably right.
  254. Usman Asif has said financial freedom matters for women as well as for men. This is also important for females. It's not just for males. Yeah. Like it's this financial freedom is important.
  255. Usman Asif has said he wants to get through failures faster to reach the next success. I just want to do it faster so that main bole agla success
  256. Usman Asif has said the outcome of a situation is not within his control. Outcome to control mein hai nahin. Right? So rejection ho gai, ho gai, thik hai, it's ok.
  257. Usman Asif has said that life looks like tragedy up close and comedy from further away. It's a movie that we are living in, right? And when we just zoom in, so it's probably tragedy, probably horror, probably this and that. Zoom out, it's a comedy, you know.
  258. Usman Asif has said every day is a new day for him and that he cannot wait to grow old. Mere lie to everyday is a new day matlab is maja rahe hain aur main to I cannot wait to grow old.
  259. Usman Asif has said he wishes he could have done better in general. I wish I could have done better in general.
  260. Usman Asif has said he is proud of working hard when he was young. I am proud of me working hard when I was young
  261. Usman Asif has said that while building wealth and being ambitious, one should also focus on family life. apna paisa banaen aur bahut ambitious rahe, but just yah hai ki thoda sa family life se focus kar len.
  262. Usman Asif has said he wishes he could see his children grow up. I wish I could see my children grow up.
  263. He has said he did a lot of stock investing and also took the Series 65 exam. stock investments mein bahut zyaada ki mainne usmen series 65 exam bhi diya
  264. He has said that on Wall Street he saw people follow patterns too closely. mainne Wall Street mein na dekhi ki log bahut zyaada pattern follow karte hain
  265. He has said that people are not God, and that math and history are the only things they have. Outcome as, we are not God, the only thing that we have is math and history.
  266. He has said the outcome does not define the decision matrix. so it's not the outcome that defines the decision matrix, right?
  267. He has said he thinks people should train their minds to stop attaching to outcomes and to attach to fundamentals instead. So I personally think that if we can somehow train our minds to not attach with outcomes and stay attach with fundamentals.
  268. He has said that numbers sometimes take time to follow, and that people who stay attached to the process eventually succeed. Sometime numbers follow, sometime it takes time for them to follow but if you attach yourself, you you you train your mind to keep attach in yourself with the process, eventually you succeed.
  269. He has said education should not be guesswork. Education tukka nahin hona chaahie.
  270. He has advised that education decisions should not be made without mentorship. Yah decisions bagair mentor trip ke na len.
  271. He has said that asking someone first can save many years. Kisi se puchh len aapke bahut saare saal bach jaenge