Owaeis' Ventures

Owaeis N. (aka Awais Naseer) is a technology blogger and an internet entrepreneur who writes for his well recognized consumer electronics blog The Gadgets and his iOS hacking blog Jailbreak Story. He has also founded internet startups tajori, Chirya and an online T-shirt shop GiDMiD Tees. Previously he founded and ran a web design company Leading Webs at the age of 19 when he was attending undergraduate school and closed it in 2008. He runs all of his ventures under the umbrella name of GiDMiD.

As a blogger, his work has been cited by technology blogs like Engadget, CNET, ZDNet, Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable, Tech Crunch, Life Hacker, TUAW, Electronista, Boy Genius Report and main stream news websites including The Washington Post, Huffington Post, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Inquirer and The Guardian among others. He is well known for his criticism on the flaws of consumer electronics and the policies of the companies manufacturing them but is mostly cited for breaking the news about smartphone hacks, specially Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone.

As an entrepreneur, Owaeis would judge a great mind and make him join his venture of changing the world, though he finds them rarely. He inspired many of his non-tech-savvy friends join him, become great coders (and hackers) and help him with his internet startups. That’s how he has managed to create those products without any external funding. Motivating people, inspiring them, building great teams to eventually craft impressive products is what he does the best.

Some may see Owaeis as a scientist too as he spends his spare time researching about how people interact with computers and has created a prototype tool called “Ainak” for gesture based HCI, it is the first one of its kind. He is doing this project as his post-graduate thesis at college.

Owaeis is a CS majors from Pakistan’s renowned computer science university FAST-NU and is finalizing his thesis these days. He has never gone for a job (except a one-month internship) but it has almost become impossible for him to fund all of his projects himself from the income he generates from his blogs. As of November 2011, he is looking for a job at some tech corporation for first hand experience of the industry as well as some bucks as a by-product. He however thinks that he sucks as an employee and nobody would ever hire him.