Muslim Founder

Yusuf Omar is a journalist and co-founder of Seen TV, building the world’s most immersive storytelling company. Creating a more empathetic world by helping people share their lived experiences.Born to South African parents, he has been a foreign correspondent carrying nothing but a phone since 2010, later becoming CNN's senior social media reporter on Snapchat and mobile editor at the Hindustan Times.He was recently detained at Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv), deported, and banned from entry for up to ten years. He is now taking the case to court.In this episode, he breaks down what happened in detention, why he thinks Muslims have failed at media, and the fund he wants to leave behind for independent journalism.Find out more:https://www.instagram.com/yusufomar/https://www.seen.tv/https://x.com/YusufOmarSA-------------------Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------00:00 - Introduction03:48 - The Watermelon Question05:36 - 18 Hours in Interrogation12:33 - Why He Thinks Muslims Have Failed at Media14:01 - What America Actually Gave the World17:25 - Boarding the Flotilla With a Six-Week-Old at Home21:59 - Why the Ummah Won't Fund Media-------------------Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz, the world's largest Muslim marriage app.A former VP at Morgan Stanley, he walked away from nine years in investment banking, taught himself to code, and launched the app from his bedroom in 2015.Today Muzz has more than 20 million members, a team of 160, and is closing in on a million people who've met their partner on the app.In this episode, he breaks down turning down Match Group's acquisition offer, the lawsuit that forced a rebrand, and why he's raised just $9 million in over a decade.Find out more:https://muzz.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahzad-younas-------------------Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------0:00 - Introduction1:46 - Five Traders Huddled Around One Phone2:45 - The App He Designed in Microsoft Word4:45 - Racing Out of Jummah to Hand Out Business Cards9:17 - Would He Build It Again? His Honest Answer12:55 - The Billboard That Went Viral Before Anyone Knew It Was Them31:36 - The Acquisition Calls He Took From a Mosque Classroom33:39 - Walking Away From $35 Million Over Dinner at The Ivy34:18 - The Court Case That Cost Them Their Name36:53 - Why Half His Series A Is Still Sitting in the Bank45:10 - The Easiest Way for Muslim Men to Stand Out on the App-------------------Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

Raafi Hossain is the co-founder and CEO of Fasset, a stablecoin-powered digital bank built for emerging markets.Born in Dhaka, he studied at Harvard and worked at the UN before starting the company in 2019.Today Fasset is valued at $1 billion, with more than 3 million wallets across 125 countries and $40 billion in annualised transaction volume.In this episode, he breaks down why almost all of crypto is a scam, how he gets regulators and politicians to say yes, and why he thinks Sharia compliance is the wrong way to think about Islamic finance.Find out more:https://www.fasset.com/https://www.instagram.com/raafihossain/https://www.linkedin.com/in/raafihossain/-------------------Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------0:00 - Introduction4:14 - The Five Banks Standing Between You and $1007:01 - Why He Says 99.99% of Crypto Is a Scam8:55 - The Official Who Told Him to Come Back in 207410:23 - The Person Every Regulator Actually Answers To16:15 - John Smith Clears in Seconds, Muhammad Ahmed Doesn't21:20 - Why He Calls Sharia Compliance a Colonial Mindset27:55 - The American Banking Problem He Didn't Expect36:44 - Why He Thinks Western Muslims Are Too Comfortable40:54 - The Medina Parable He Uses When Onboarding New Hires-------------------Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

Rayyan Khan is the founder and CEO of Founders Arm, an offshore recruitment firm that places vetted talent from North Africa and Latin America into US startups.Pakistani, raised between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, he dropped out in his final month of college and moved to San Francisco with no money to go all in.Today Founders Arm is at six figures a month with no venture funding and not a single North American hire, with clients including Cal AI and MyFitnessPal.In this episode, he breaks down how he found his first client, why he deliberately avoided the Philippines and India, and what he felt when he finally met his team in Egypt.Find out more:https://foundersarm.com/https://x.com/rayyanfkhanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rayyanfkhan/-------------------Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.-------------------0:00 - Introduction1:33 - Dropping Out in the Final Month of College2:23 - Hundreds of Job Applications, Not a Single Interview3:04 - How Offshore Recruitment Actually Makes Money4:14 - Why Selling to Everybody Means Selling to Nobody4:52 - The Content Funnel That Brought Clients to Him6:12 - Six Months of Running Every Interview Himself7:27 - Why He Avoided the Philippines, India and Pakistan8:18 - The First Four Months Were Really Tough9:07 - The Client Who Hired 22 People Through Him10:43 - What Gets You to One Won't Get You to Ten11:36 - A Seven Figure Company With No North American Hires12:33 - The Lake Tahoe Trip That Didn't Feel Like Winning14:13 - Failing School and Knowing It Since Fourteen15:24 - Why He Never Wanted Venture Money16:50 - Figure Out Who You Are Before You Pick a Model22:33 - The Criticism of Offshore Hiring, Answered24:43 - Flying to Egypt and Meeting the Team28:00 - Why Building Something Deepened His Tawakkul30:00 - What the Next Ten Years Look Like

Jawad Shreim is the co-founder and CEO of MilkStraw AI, a platform that automatically cuts companies' cloud infrastructure costs.Palestinian, born and raised in Dubai, he spent over a decade in Silicon Valley building and selling a startup before walking away to start again from the Middle East.Today MilkStraw is backed by VentureSouq and Flat6Labs, with more than 100 startups running on it.In this episode, he breaks down why he left America, the near-death experience in Mexico City that brought him back to Islam, and what a co-founder breakdown taught him about who to build with.Find out more: https://milkstraw.ai/-------------------Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.-------------------0:00 - Introduction2:49 - The Day His Father Walked Away From a CEO Job4:18 - Watching Dubai Go From Desert to Global Hub9:47 - The Paper That Concluded Silicon Valley Isn't a Place11:40 - The USB Dongle He Sold to His Classmates12:49 - The Running Costs That Killed His First Company15:52 - Six Months Living Inside One Italian Restaurant18:41 - When the Side Product Became the Real Product20:25 - The Co-Founder Signals He Kept Explaining Away22:15 - The Acquisition That Arrived Mid-Fight27:59 - Losing His Grip on His Own Identity29:29 - The Taxi Ride in Mexico City34:10 - The Shahada He Couldn't Bring Himself to Say39:54 - Why the Exit Money Meant Nothing41:11 - A Year Before He Knew It Was Depression42:31 - Becoming Muslim for the Second Time45:14 - The Trip That Convinced Him to Come Home47:53 - Silicon Valley Level Engineers, in Jordan50:13 - The Company Name That Came to Him in a Dream