Venture strategy, capital and partnerships at https://xitter.cf/t.co/MlRR2DGwhL | 6,000+ founders engaged across MENAP | Founding MD, Endeavor Pakistan | ex-Microsoft for Startups
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Joined October 2020
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Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Could you spend 15 years solving the same problem? 🎯
That’s often what it takes to build a company at scale.
So what keeps founders going?
@ali__oosman shares what he’s seen after meeting thousands of founders.
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Good conversations in Amsterdam and at @betahaus in Berlin last week 🇳🇱🇩🇪
Thanks to everyone who joined the Builders Meetup, and to @WorldSummitAI for having us in Amsterdam.
Great start to @money2020_me.
Sharp panel on disruption, friction, and unlocking capital flows in and from the region. Thanks to our moderator @aimnotsydney!
Tomorrow on the Capital Stage, my colleague @JonathanDoerr breaks down how @Disrupt_com is building AI Native Ventures.
Huge congratulations to the @squatwolf team on landing in Beirut and opening their very first store outside the GCC! 👏
Great job @wajdangul and Anam, super excited.
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
UAE Pass which PDA chairman built just won a prestigious global award.
The same team and leader are working on the Pakistan stack. Every year Pakistan will take leaps of we can keep this team
Dr. @sohailmunir - the man Pakistan brought in from UAE Pass and Smart Dubai to chair the Pakistan Digital Authority - describes the ambition as building an operating system with “sovereign DPI as the foundation, an AI cognitive layer as the intelligence.” PMOS is a real step forward, but the question that matters: does it actually run on that sovereign foundation, or on foreign cloud and licensing Pakistan doesn’t fully control?
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Jeff Bezos on why the United States has more entrepreneurial success than other countries:
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Venture Capital is F*cking hard.
With the risk free rate climbing and competition increasing it won't get any easier and a wash out is coming.
Here's some of the real math required to generate industry leading returns in this highly illiquid asset class.
Amazing stuff
I fell off my chair when I just learnt this today. During the pandemic, @imran_nisar wondered if you could tell about the virus spread from sewerage sample testing like we do for polio. This is Dr Imran presenting his work at AKU. Story time...
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Supervised a project 2 week ago. Two programmers where hired to create an MVP. I have worked with both before.
- Alex from Germany. 100% code. 19 years experience.
- Hamid from Pakistan. Code + Copilot + GPT-4 + no-code. 4 years experience.
What do you think happened?
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it. Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI.
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
The hottest pepper in the world, the Carolina Reaper, was cross-bred using peppers from Pakistan and the Carribbean (@1:03) youtu.be/1uNpjqH-mQQ
Blows my mind every time...
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
As all of these morons vie for power of a bankrupt dysfunctional state I have to go and make sure the team is safe getting home and managing travel and productivity against inevitable protests. No one cares about protecting the small businesses that are backbone of the economy
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
So next time a party asks for your vote ask them for clear tactical plan for each of these points. It’s not too much to ask. It’s literally their job to do this before they come to power. With action, in 15 years you join Vietnam. Without action, in 15 years you join Somalia.
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
thenews.com.pk/print/1061164…
Pakistan has a debt problem. It also has an energy problem. Without solving the debt & energy problem, it is not possible to get on a sustainable growth trajectory and move >200m people out of poverty. An energy poor country can never be a rich country
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Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
Today is a big moment for @careem and inshallah an exciting inflection point for the region’s digital economy. It’s day one of Careem’s Chapter 3 as we welcome e& as a new partner on our journey to become the first “everything app” in the greater Middle East. With two amazing partners in e& and Uber, we have incredible support to leapfrog the lives of our people at scale and build the preeminent technology platform of the region.
Today is a big day. A new journey for #Careem begins as we welcome the global technology and investment group e& as an investor alongside Uber, supporting our vision to become the first “everything app” in the greater Middle East.
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
We are fucked... There I said it!
I just saw the most impressive display of AI I have ever seen in my life!
Check this out...
Ali Samir Oosman retweeted
33M ppl in Pakistan have lost their homes, livelihood & access to food, medicine & sanitation due to flash floods. I'm auctioning an exclusive Zoom call with me to raise funds for the 33M flood victims of Pakistan. Please visit: superfandom.io/exclusives/63… to bid.
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Two years ago, I made fictitious transit maps. Today, I’m happy to share with fellow #Karachi residents a real map of all functioning bus lines, featuring parks, hospitals & shopping & dining destination along these lines. High-res version at bit.ly/khibreeze
