About
Ayman Sadiq founded 10 Minute School in 2015, a bootstrapped online education platform now teaching more than 250,000 students daily, entirely free. In 2018, he...
About Ayman Sadiq
Ayman Sadiq is the Founder and CEO of 10 Minute School, one of the largest edtech platforms in Bangladesh. He built the company around a deceptively simple bet: that free, high-quality video lessons could reach students that Bangladesh's private tutoring system never could.
From IBA Student to Teacher
Sadiq graduated from the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Dhaka with a Bachelor of Business Administration. Rather than moving directly into a corporate career after graduation, he gravitated toward teaching, an interest that eventually became the foundation for 10 Minute School itself.
That teaching background shaped the platform's core format from day one: short, focused video lessons designed to explain a single concept clearly, rather than long lecture recordings.
Starting Small in 2015
Sadiq founded 10 Minute School in 2015 as a bootstrapped operation, with no major outside funding behind its early growth. The platform grew slowly at first, built on word-of-mouth among students looking for an alternative to expensive private tutors.
That bootstrapped period gave the company room to refine its content and format before it ever had to answer to outside investors about growth targets.
Reaching Hundreds of Thousands of Students for Free
Under Sadiq's leadership, 10 Minute School has grown into a platform teaching more than 250,000 students every single day, offered completely free of cost. That scale, combined with a free access model, has made it one of the most widely used education platforms in the country, reaching students well beyond the cities where private tutoring is most accessible.
Keeping the core platform free, even as the company has grown, has remained central to Sadiq's stated mission of expanding access to quality education across Bangladesh.
International Recognition
In 2018, Sadiq received a Queen's Young Leaders Award for his work improving access to education for young people in Bangladesh, and was named to Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30 list the same year. 10 Minute School has also picked up global recognition of its own, including the GLOMO Award at the World Mobile Congress and the APICTA Award, often described as the Oscars of the ICT industry.
Sadiq continues to lead 10 Minute School today, and remains an active public voice on education and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, with a following built as much on his own teaching content as on his role running the company.