Talha Asif

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Built a crypto development studio from $0 to $1M ARR, and owned the entire engine end to end.

The short version: I built a company that generated real revenue in crypto, and the clients I built for generated real revenue and funding too.

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Co-founded a ChatGPT wrapper that solved a big pain point and got a lot of traction quickly, taken from concept to public launch.

My introduction to the crypto space. Built and launched an NFT collection and game.

  • Built a community of 5,000+ members and generated $100k+ in revenue.
  • Owned the product, community, go-to-market, and social media for the project.
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Built a byte-sized self-improvement content brand across platforms.

  • Grew from 0 to 100,000+ followers across social platforms, with millions of views across TikTok, YouTube, and other channels.
  • Landed brand deals with companies like Speechify and other self-improvement brands, and ran a canvas dropshipping store alongside it.
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Turned the AWS hackathon prototype into a real product: sign-language translation.

  • Launched publicly with Bahrain's Ministry of Information Affairs and the UOB Cloud Innovation Center.
  • Tackling communication access for 400M+ deaf individuals worldwide.
  • Pitched to startup accelerators in Bahrain, including Flat6Labs. This was our introduction to the startup world and fundraising, which we later carried into raising for Yalghaar too.
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Developed an AI-powered voice-to-sign-language translator (and vice versa).

  • Won 1st prize at the AWS AI hackathon (MENA region).
  • Prototype was further developed in partnership with AWS and Tamkeen, and became Voicemate.

Launched an online bookstore for hard-to-find books in the GCC, an early e-commerce and dropshipping experiment that taught me how to run a store end to end.

Scribe

My first real company, a ghostwriting agency I started from zero and scaled to $15k MRR.

  • Built a team of 30+ remote writers across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, serving 4,000+ clients, including C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Aramco).
  • Ran cold outreach to acquire customers, including directly to universities and university groups, and led the social media strategy.
  • Closed the deals myself, then hired writers to complete the work and kept the margin. My introduction to arbitrage servicing.
  • Acquired and rebranded to Scribe, still operating today.

Before any of the above, I learned business from the ground up.

  • M2 Designs (Salesperson, 2016 to 2017), my first job. Graphic design, customer handling, printing, packaging, and delivery, the full front-to-back of a small business.
  • My family's businesses, where I worked across a cleaning company, a consultancy, a document-clearance firm, and a restaurant, doing graphic design, website development, customer handling, and setting up new systems.
  • Taught tuition to kids at home with my mother, and later continued tutoring through university.

This is where I learned how businesses actually run: customers, delivery, systems, and getting your hands dirty.