Speaking

If we sit with a media analyst and have media data, we become media analysts; if we take a banker's data, we become bankers … we sometimes become bankers, sometimes doctors, sometimes media analysts, because all our work is on data.

In our field we say data is the new gold … until you have the data, you cannot do decision making.

There is a transition in the world towards AI and machine learning … the purpose of building the company was that we would work on all the latest technologies, and through them make people's lives easier.

What we do is take a rough idea from you, refine it … We will design its UI/UX and show you … sitting with you in very layman terminology, we first define its scope, and then build the product and deliver it to you.

It is my fundamental belief that if the ecosystem has four pillars and all four are not standing, the building will not stand. So if you focus only on Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, and not on these areas, then our IT industry also will not be able to grow.

The freelancing industry does not teach you very much … it does not build your experience in the same way. So first you should go into industry, and after that you should move to these different platforms.

I started from Upwork … if at four o'clock at night I get a message from a customer, I wake up, I reply to him, and I go on a call at once.

Fifty-one per cent of your population is female … work from home has given this specific field a boom for this reason too: that they can contribute still in the industry.

Hackathons are time-bound, within which you have to present some prototype. By prototype I mean any workable solution: that if we get help for this thing and deploy it on a large scale, many people will benefit from it.

Before becoming a freelancer, they should identify what their core strengths are.

They are the ones who will take the country forward … now they have mobile phones, and because of the mobile all digital access is in their hands. So I think the next future is theirs.