Raffay Ansari Sets Entrepreneurial Record

Raffay Ansari, a 16-year-old Pakistani boy has set entrepreneurial record with his struggle and earnings in spite of facing a rare disease. He is a self-educated programmer.

He has been an iOS developer for more than three years. The teenager from Pakistan has earned several thousand dollars through freelancing online, coded games.

Raffay Ansari Sets Entrepreneurial Record

Raffay is suffering from Ataxia due to which it is hard for him to walk, speak clearly, write, read, and other activities that need motor control. His muscles are weakening, even after his diagnosis 2 years ago. As he couldn’t sleep much at night he learned new things instead. Raffay says his turning point came when he was introduced to the video game Borderlands.

His parents were first hesitant to encourage him, but seeing his interest in it they supported him. At the age of 13 he completed his first freelance assignment of coding the iOS game Mr Flap.

He was motivated by the psychologist Edward de Bono and read a lot of his published work on lateral thinking and creativity. His freelancing income has paid for gadgets, as well as the constant physiotherapy he must undertake to treat his disease.

Raffay’s first interaction with Plan9 came in 2013. Plan9 director Nabeel Qadeer noticed his talents and started to mentor him personally. Raffay started working as a technical consultant.

Raffay is now on the way of starting his own setup, Odyssy, which he explains as a data-driven content management system (CMS) targeted at bloggers and publishers. Raffay discloses that Odyssy is on the edge of closing its seed funding round – US$20,000 from an angel investor based out of Islamabad.

He has cleared his GCE’s and wants to get a degree with majors in mechatronics and business management.

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