Muslim Founder

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

Ammar Sulthan is the founder of Muslimpreneur, teaching Muslims how to start their service-based businesses.He started his first agency while working an IT apprenticeship, cold-calling up to 100 businesses a day and taking six months to land his first client.Today he's on a mission to help 1,000 Muslims become millionaires.In this episode, he breaks down the middleman agency model, how to land your first client with no track record, and why he checks his deen first whenever business slows down.Find out more: https://go.halalonlinebusiness.co/muslimfounder-------------------LONG-FORM (YOUTUBE):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 - Introduction0:52 - What Hajj Actually Felt Like, Weeks Later3:14 - The One Question Almost Nobody Asks Themselves6:00 - The Morning Protocol He Makes Every Student Do9:56 - The Fine Line Between Certainty and Entitlement in Dua11:58 - Why He Tells Beginners to Start Here, Not With Software18:33 - The Middleman Model, Explained22:06 - Six Months, Business Cards, and Still No Clients23:32 - Selling Like a Doctor Who Has the Remedy26:31 - How to Land a Client With Zero Testimonials27:20 - Authority Jacking and Why He Tells People to Send a Brick32:34 - 100 Cold Calls a Day and the 561 Nos36:23 - Charging 5K a Month When That's Someone's Whole Salary38:14 - Audit Your Time: The Exercise Most People Avoid49:11 - What Stops the Freelancer Going Straight to Your Client52:31 - The Unfair Advantage Muslims in the West Have54:16 - What Happens After Your First 10K Month1:01:44 - The Mission to Make 1,000 Muslim Millionaires

Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939dddFor the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.-------------------Taimur Abdaal is the co-founder and CEO of Causal, the financial modelling platform built to replace Excel for finance teams.Raised in the UK in a British Pakistani family, he taught himself to code as a teenager and studied maths at Oxford before quitting his job to build Causal with a university friend.Five years and $25 million in funding later, he sold the company to Berlin-based Lucanet.In this episode, he breaks down going from zero to $1M ARR in a year, raising from Accel and Naval Ravikant, and why so many Muslim founders set their sights too low.-------------------https://x.com/taimurabdaalhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/taimurabdaal/https://causal.app/-------------------LONG-FORM (YOUTUBE)Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f-------------------How to achieve rapid startup ARR growth from zero to one million. Learn the distribution strategy behind this rapid scaling.This breakdown examines the specific timeline of building a live demo and launching on Hacker News to capture initial demand. If you are a founder looking to understand how to build a waiting list and secure early traction, the content explores the exact steps taken to reach significant revenue milestones.Effective distribution serves as the primary engine for growth. By analysing the journey to a Series A funding round while at 600K ARR, you will see how focusing on the right channels early on dictates your startup ARR growth. Learn why getting the product in front of users via Hacker News was the catalyst for the zero to one million journey and how to apply those lessons to your own startup ARR growth strategy.Subscribe for weekly startup growth breakdowns, and comment below what you want to learn next.0:00 - Introduction1:28 - One Shared Family Computer and the Fight to Use It2:20 - Fake Psychic Readings and Other Teenage Side Hustles3:10 - The Film That Made Him Learn to Code4:47 - Oxford, and the Careers Website That Shaped His Whole Plan8:20 - Meeting Two Guys Who Made Startups Feel Possible11:03 - The Spreadsheet Problem That Became Causal12:14 - The Hacker News Launch That Got Them 600 Signups13:17 - What Made the Co-Founder Relationship Work16:08 - 18 Months of Not Knowing Who the Customer Was18:07 - The Six Months They Wasted on Marketing Agencies21:31 - The Microsoft Excel Killer Headline24:03 - Zero to $1M ARR: Future Selling and Price Discovery25:48 - Why Technical Founders Have to Get Over Hating Sales28:31 - Naval Slid Into the DMs Over a GIF Thread31:11 - Selling the Company and the $25M Preference Stack37:24 - What He'd Do Differently Building Company Number Two41:56 - The Mistake He Sees Muslim Founders Make Most44:00 - Why He's Staying in the UK Instead of Moving to SF