Unicorns are dying. Cockroaches creep us out. The future belongs to Camel Startups: resilient, human-centric, and engineered to survive.

In this episode of Forge of Unicorns, host Michele “Mike” Brissoni sits down with Umar Munshi, CEO of HasanVC, to explore how ethical investing, halal venture capital, and the venture studio model are reshaping the future of entrepreneurship.

🌍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

✔️ Why 99% of Unicorns fail — and how Camels survive harsh conditions.

✔️ How ethical and halal investing principles (fairness, shared prosperity, long-term value) create more sustainable outcomes.

✔️ Why the VC power law pushes founders into shortcuts — and how Camel Startups break the cycle.

✔️ The role of Venture Studios in building resilient companies from zero to one.

✔️ Why AI should enhance humans, not replace them — and how the right governance protects talent.

✔️ The importance of purpose-driven organizations that put humans, fulfillment, and community at the core.

✔️ How the Unicorns’ Ecosystem + BOKaRy governance model serve as the operating system for modern venture studios.

🐪 Why Camel Startups Matter

Unicorns are mythical. They grow fast, burn cash even faster, and collapse under their own hype.

Cockroach startups? They survive — but no one wants to build them.

Camel startups are different:

• They survive the harshest markets.
• They scale responsibly when opportunities arise.
• They are engineered through discipline, cooperation, and hard work — not magic.

HasanVC, guided by halal ethics and human-centric investing, is pioneering this model — and showing investors a way forward.

💸 The Problem with Venture Capital Today

Traditional VC relies on the power law: spray money across dozens of startups and hope one or two unicorns pay for the rest.

The result?

• 98% of portfolio companies fail.
• Founders are pushed into shortcuts, hype, and unsustainable growth.
• Burnout and disengagement spread across teams.
• Investors gamble on mythical outliers instead of predictable outcomes.

🏗️ The Solution: Venture Studios + Unicorns’ Ecosystem

HasanVC believes the answer lies in venture studios — where ideas are validated, co-founders are supported, and companies are built systematically from zero to one with behavioral engineering not by luck. A model that mirrors our Unicorns’ Ecosystem, and our revolutionary Governance Layer (BOKaRy)

🧭 Purpose, Ethics & Halal Investing

HasanVC anchors every decision in intention (niyyah) — why do we build, not just what we build.

Halal principles ensure:

• Fairness in contracts.
• Shared prosperity between founders, investors, and employees.
• Long-term sustainability over short-term speculation.

This approach resonates far beyond the Muslim community — it’s a model of human-centric capitalism for everyone.

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