Muslim Founder

Dr Abdallah Rothman is the Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College and Executive Director of the International Association of Islamic Psychology.

An American convert and licensed counsellor, he spent over 15 years as a practising therapist before writing one of the first academic models of Islamic psychology.

He went on to serve as Principal of Cambridge Muslim College, founded Dar al-Shifaa, and now trains the next generation of Muslim therapists from the UAE.

In this episode, he breaks down what Muslims get wrong about their own minds, how the Prophet ﷺ dealt with anxiety and sadness, and the daily practices that actually change your heart.

Find out more:

https://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/aer

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00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - The Part of You That Forgets Where It Came From

07:44 - The Verse People Hide Behind to Avoid Studying the Soul

17:30 - Doing Everything Right and Still Feeling the Constriction

20:06 - The Year the Prophet Spent in Sadness

24:24 - Why Psychology Books Put a Severed Head on the Cover

26:38 - The Five Minutes Before Prayer That Change It

28:13 - Why He Refuses to Call It Mental Health

33:54 - Don't Wait Until You're Out of Options

44:11 - The Part of Istikhara Almost Nobody Means

47:48 - Why He Thinks Superintelligence Is the Wrong Goal

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Dr Wajid Akhter is the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, the largest umbrella body for Muslims in the UK.

A practising doctor born and raised in Britain, he founded Charity Week and the Islamic History Channel, and was a founding member of the British Islamic Medical Association.

He was elected to lead the MCB in January 2025 and re-elected for a second term in July 2026, running on a plan he calls Vision 2050.

In this episode, he breaks down why so many Muslim organisations duplicate each other, what that fragmentation actually costs, and why he thinks we should be building institutions instead of personal brands.

Find out more:

https://mcb.org.uk/

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00:00 - Introduction

00:52 - One Street in Leicester With Eight Mosques

06:54 - Seven Hospitals in One Year, From Student Collections

10:54 - The Advice He Got on Day One at MCB, and Why He Ignored It

15:14 - The Red Phone and the Medical Student Who Did Too Little

17:24 - Michael Jordan, or the Man Who Owns the Club

26:12 - What If Disney Ran Your Mosque?

28:32 - The Words That Kept Britain Fighting

34:41 - The Muslim Nobody Talks About Who Built Everything

36:26 - The Best Answer to Islamophobia Isn't a Better Argument

44:37 - A Million Fried Chicken Shops, Not One KFC

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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

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00:00 - Introduction

03:48 - The Watermelon Question

05:36 - 18 Hours in Interrogation

12:33 - Why He Thinks Muslims Have Failed at Media

14:01 - What America Actually Gave the World

17:25 - Boarding the Flotilla With a Six-Week-Old at Home

21:59 - Why the Ummah Won't Fund Media

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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

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0:00 - Introduction

1:46 - Five Traders Huddled Around One Phone

2:45 - The App He Designed in Microsoft Word

4:45 - Racing Out of Jummah to Hand Out Business Cards

9:17 - Would He Build It Again? His Honest Answer

12:55 - The Billboard That Went Viral Before Anyone Knew It Was Them

31:36 - The Acquisition Calls He Took From a Mosque Classroom

33:39 - Walking Away From $35 Million Over Dinner at The Ivy

34:18 - The Court Case That Cost Them Their Name

36:53 - Why Half His Series A Is Still Sitting in the Bank

45:10 - The Easiest Way for Muslim Men to Stand Out on the App

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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/

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0:00 - Introduction

4:14 - The Five Banks Standing Between You and $100

7:01 - Why He Says 99.99% of Crypto Is a Scam

8:55 - The Official Who Told Him to Come Back in 2074

10:23 - The Person Every Regulator Actually Answers To

16:15 - John Smith Clears in Seconds, Muhammad Ahmed Doesn't

21:20 - Why He Calls Sharia Compliance a Colonial Mindset

27:55 - The American Banking Problem He Didn't Expect

36:44 - Why He Thinks Western Muslims Are Too Comfortable

40:54 - The Medina Parable He Uses When Onboarding New Hires

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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/rayyanfkhan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayyanfkhan/

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0:00 - Introduction

1:33 - Dropping Out in the Final Month of College

2:23 - Hundreds of Job Applications, Not a Single Interview

3:04 - How Offshore Recruitment Actually Makes Money

4:14 - Why Selling to Everybody Means Selling to Nobody

4:52 - The Content Funnel That Brought Clients to Him

6:12 - Six Months of Running Every Interview Himself

7:27 - Why He Avoided the Philippines, India and Pakistan

8:18 - The First Four Months Were Really Tough

9:07 - The Client Who Hired 22 People Through Him

10:43 - What Gets You to One Won't Get You to Ten

11:36 - A Seven Figure Company With No North American Hires

12:33 - The Lake Tahoe Trip That Didn't Feel Like Winning

14:13 - Failing School and Knowing It Since Fourteen

15:24 - Why He Never Wanted Venture Money

16:50 - Figure Out Who You Are Before You Pick a Model

22:33 - The Criticism of Offshore Hiring, Answered

24:43 - Flying to Egypt and Meeting the Team

28:00 - Why Building Something Deepened His Tawakkul

30:00 - 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/

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0:00 - Introduction

2:49 - The Day His Father Walked Away From a CEO Job

4:18 - Watching Dubai Go From Desert to Global Hub

9:47 - The Paper That Concluded Silicon Valley Isn't a Place

11:40 - The USB Dongle He Sold to His Classmates

12:49 - The Running Costs That Killed His First Company

15:52 - Six Months Living Inside One Italian Restaurant

18:41 - When the Side Product Became the Real Product

20:25 - The Co-Founder Signals He Kept Explaining Away

22:15 - The Acquisition That Arrived Mid-Fight

27:59 - Losing His Grip on His Own Identity

29:29 - The Taxi Ride in Mexico City

34:10 - The Shahada He Couldn't Bring Himself to Say

39:54 - Why the Exit Money Meant Nothing

41:11 - A Year Before He Knew It Was Depression

42:31 - Becoming Muslim for the Second Time

45:14 - The Trip That Convinced Him to Come Home

47:53 - Silicon Valley Level Engineers, in Jordan

50:13 - 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

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0:00 - Introduction

0:52 - What Hajj Actually Felt Like, Weeks Later

3:14 - The One Question Almost Nobody Asks Themselves

6:00 - The Morning Protocol He Makes Every Student Do

9:56 - The Fine Line Between Certainty and Entitlement in Dua

11:58 - Why He Tells Beginners to Start Here, Not With Software

18:33 - The Middleman Model, Explained

22:06 - Six Months, Business Cards, and Still No Clients

23:32 - Selling Like a Doctor Who Has the Remedy

26:31 - How to Land a Client With Zero Testimonials

27:20 - Authority Jacking and Why He Tells People to Send a Brick

32:34 - 100 Cold Calls a Day and the 561 Nos

36:23 - Charging 5K a Month When That's Someone's Whole Salary

38:14 - Audit Your Time: The Exercise Most People Avoid

49:11 - What Stops the Freelancer Going Straight to Your Client

52:31 - The Unfair Advantage Muslims in the West Have

54:16 - What Happens After Your First 10K Month

1:01:44 - The Mission to Make 1,000 Muslim Millionaires

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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.

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https://x.com/taimurabdaal

https://www.linkedin.com/in/taimurabdaal/

https://causal.app/

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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 - Introduction

1:28 - One Shared Family Computer and the Fight to Use It

2:20 - Fake Psychic Readings and Other Teenage Side Hustles

3:10 - The Film That Made Him Learn to Code

4:47 - Oxford, and the Careers Website That Shaped His Whole Plan

8:20 - Meeting Two Guys Who Made Startups Feel Possible

11:03 - The Spreadsheet Problem That Became Causal

12:14 - The Hacker News Launch That Got Them 600 Signups

13:17 - What Made the Co-Founder Relationship Work

16:08 - 18 Months of Not Knowing Who the Customer Was

18:07 - The Six Months They Wasted on Marketing Agencies

21:31 - The Microsoft Excel Killer Headline

24:03 - Zero to $1M ARR: Future Selling and Price Discovery

25:48 - Why Technical Founders Have to Get Over Hating Sales

28:31 - Naval Slid Into the DMs Over a GIF Thread

31:11 - Selling the Company and the $25M Preference Stack

37:24 - What He'd Do Differently Building Company Number Two

41:56 - The Mistake He Sees Muslim Founders Make Most

44:00 - Why He's Staying in the UK Instead of Moving to SF

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Arib Khan is the founder of 24 Labs, a portfolio of internet companies built entirely without outside capital.

Raised in San Jose in a Pakistani American family, he built his first company, Musicfy, to a million dollars in revenue at 19 and never went back to college.

Today he owns eight businesses doing over a million a year each, and gives a large share of it away.

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https://arib.lol/

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0:00 - Introduction

2:28 - A New Product Every Month and the $10,000 Bill He Couldn't Pay

3:41 - The Middle School Maths That Set His Whole Path

5:19 - Why Most Founders in San Francisco Fail

6:41 - Walking Away From a Big Venture Round

8:45 - His Three Rules for Deciding What to Build

10:41 - Inside 24 Labs: Eight Businesses, Zero Investors

11:48 - Why $20K of Your Own Money Beats $1M Raised

12:20 - Putting His Childhood Friends on Payroll

14:15 - Leaving San Francisco and the Billion Dollar Mindset

15:32 - Feeding 100,000 People During Ramadan

16:45 - The One Thing All Eight of His Businesses Optimise For

21:15 - Why You Have to Be a Little Delusional to Win

26:36 - Burn the Ships: The Real Story Behind the Saying

30:14 - Imam Bukhari and the Gold Thrown Overboard

35:05 - Do Muslims Have a Bad Relationship With Money?

44:00 - His Advice to Muslim Founders Starting Today

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a $9 billion AI company.

Born in Jordan to a Palestinian family displaced during the Nakba, he taught himself to code on his father's first computer - and refused to hide his identity on the way up.

In this episode, he breaks down what speaking up cost him, how he built Replit to a $9B valuation, and his advice for Muslim founders looking to build.

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0:00 - Introduction

2:13 - His Grandfather's Life in Palestine Before the Nakba

5:31 - His Father Buying the Neighbourhood's First Computer

7:22 - Competitive Swimming, Counter-Strike & the Making of a Builder

9:20 - Why He Refuses to Hide His Palestinian Identity

12:02 - October 7th: Why He Couldn't Stay Silent

14:30 - Cancelled: Silent Group Chats, Empty Calendar, Dead Deals

17:14 - Using His Influence for Palestine

19:22 - His Advice for Muslim Builders Navigating Their Morals

21:40 - Clashing With Silicon Valley's Most Powerful VCs

23:36 - The Quran Verse That Changed How He Sees Struggle

25:56 - The Role Models He Admires

27:54 - Paul Graham Advice He Thinks About Every Day

29:35 - The Legacy He Wants to Leave in 20 Years

32:14 - Meeting Mamdani & Breaking the Rules of American Politics

35:13 - Internet Cafes in Jordan to Inventing Replit

41:13 - Turning Down $1 Billion While His Mother Fought Cancer

44:18 - $2M to $1B ARR: Inside Replit's Explosive 3 Years

51:30 - There's No Playbook: How to Build in 2026

Mariam Ahmed is the co-founder of Menza, an AI intelligence platform for consumer brands.

Born and raised in New York, she studied computer science at King's College London before joining Goldman Sachs.

Today she's growing Menza toward a billion-dollar company, backed by Y Combinator and featured in Forbes.

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https://menza.ai/

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0:00 Intro

2:07 Growing up in New York

4:26 From medicine to coding

7:40 Inside Goldman Sachs: how to find winners and losers

11:21 The dinner that ended her finance career

15:02 Last day Friday, flew Saturday, YC on Sunday

17:11 The real reason they got into Y Combinator

20:56 100 conversations in one week to find the idea

22:40 What Menza actually does

23:40 Why 80% of her YC batch is already dead

27:09 The brutal truth about having no boss

33:14 How to build with zero money in 2026

34:06 "You don't need to fundraise anymore"

36:18 Building a billion-dollar company on Islamic values

39:46 America's abundance vs Britain's scarcity

45:59 The failures she's most proud of

Iqbal Nasim is the former CEO of the National Zakat Foundation.

He studied economics at Cambridge before going into investment banking, then left a seven-figure package to build NZF, transforming how Muslims across the country give their zakat.

He's the founder of Transform My Prayer, helping Muslims connect with their salah, and the Last Day Leadership program, helping them find purpose.

Over the past year, his podcast "In Good Faith" has become a home for the conversations most people avoid

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0:00 Intro

1:25 "There's no such thing as Islam"

3:38 What does the Quran say on this?

5:09 The misunderstanding of the word "Islam"

8:23 How we lost the original meaning

10:33 The trap of "Islamic everything"

13:07 Why "non-Muslim" is a dehumanizing word

15:57 Do you believe in Allah because you're "Muslim"?

20:40 Would a non-Muslim really not understand halal?

26:47 Are Islamic schools a help or a harm?

30:05 The hard lines we draw between "us" and "them"

32:29 "The Muslim ummah is a complete myth"

36:42 Muslim pride & the obsession with "Muslim power"

45:01 "There is no ummah" - so what do you belong to?

49:12 "Why should anyone even care about this?"

52:27 The real harms of clinging to the label

54:38 What keeps Iqbal up at night: NDEs & psychedelics

57:48 Panentheism

Abu Lahya is a Muslim entrepreneur specialising in influencer marketing agencies. He spent 3 years failing in business before making his first $100K.

Today, after building a multi-6-figure marketing agency, he runs one of the biggest business mentorship programs in the Muslim space - with over 40,000 applications and students who've changed their lives, quit their jobs, and made hijrah.

In this episode, he breaks down the exact roadmap from broke to your first $100K, why your relationship with Allah determines your success in business, and how dua became the foundation of everything he built.

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0:00 Introduction

2:07 The art of sales & never taking no for an answer

3:25 The origin story: rejection and failed businesses

4:39 Why beginners should start with service-based businesses

8:40 Zero to one: the $100 course that changed everything

10:12 Why Muslims avoid business

13:17 Why most people quit and fail

15:36 How the influencer marketing agency model works

16:54 Finding influencers & how to price deals

19:47 The outreach strategy & how to stand out

24:39 Is your niche saturated, or is it a skill issue?

30:06 This sounds too good to be true?

33:05 "I was crying how broke I was, making dua"

35:01 Fix your relationship with Allah before your business

40:08 "Using Islam to sell your course"

44:31 Meeting Alex Hormozi

49:51 The roadmap for starting.

53:51 Abu Lahya's legacy

Sh Mustafa Briggs is an Islamic historian, author, and specialist in Arabic and Islamic texts. He converted to Islam at 13 and went on to study across West Africa, Mauritania, Morocco, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

Today he's a leading voice for uncovering the hidden, forgotten, and erased stories of Islamic history, having delivered over 100 lectures across 50+ universities worldwide and authored two books - Beyond Bilal and Islam and the Making of the Modern World.

In this episode, he breaks down the lost ring of the Prophet ﷺ and the fitna that followed, the Black poets and scholars who shaped Islamic civilization, and the theory that Muslims discovered America 200 years before Columbus ever set sail.

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0:00 Introduction

2:07 How Mustafa uncovers hidden Islamic history

4:23 The lost ring of the Prophet ﷺ

6:44 Why anti-Blackness exists in Muslim history

12:44 The scholars who defended Black Muslims

14:01 The Black Sahaba you've never heard of

15:36 Ubada bin Samit and the opening of Palestine

17:53 Why race matters in Islamic history

23:28 Crows of the Arabs: the Black poets of Arabia

26:24 Antara & Abla: the Romeo and Juliet of Arabia

29:43 Did Muslims discover America before Columbus?

33:33 The 2,000 ships that vanished

36:51 Mustafa's journey to Islam at 13

40:19 Studying across West Africa, Mauritania & Cairo

44:14 What's next for Mustafa Briggs

Omar Waseem is the 21-year-old CEO of Alif, an investment fund for Muslim founders based in Silicon Valley. By 19, he had built multiple seven-figure businesses and served as CMO of Fei Protocol, a startup that peaked at a $2B valuation.

Today he invests in early-stage Muslim founders and runs an ecosystem that hosts entrepreneurs and investors from across the world.

In this episode, he breaks down how Muslim entrepreneurs can build wealth and start companies in 2026.

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Program starts on 10th May.

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https://x.com/omarwasm

https://www.youtube.com/@omarwasm

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0:00 Introduction

2:14 Omar's entrepreneurial journey

4:26 The car accident that changed everything

6:53 The Fund backing Muslim founders

10:14 What Omar looks for in founders

11:26 The mission: 25 Muslim billionaires

12:15 Do Muslims sell out to build big?

14:53 How Alif actually makes money

16:32 The best business to start in 2026

18:56 Why 2026 is the moment

21:22 Building Muslim entrepreneurial power

23:56 Why San Francisco wins

26:44 Is money the real problem?

28:27 How to hire a world-class team

36:42 Omar's role models

38:10 How he made it so young

40:20 Who keeps Omar grounded

44:14 Rapid fire

Humza Yousaf is a Scottish-Pakistani politician and the former First Minister of Scotland - the first Muslim to ever lead a Western nation.

The son of Pakistani immigrants, he entered politics at 22 and, over 15 years rose to the top of Scottish politics. During his time in office, he became the first Western leader to call for a ceasefire in Gaza - while his own wife's family was trapped there.

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0:00 Introduction

2:31 Family background and early political career

5:44 Was becoming First Minister the end goal?

7:18 The moment he became First Minister

9:28 Praying Maghrib inside Bute House

10:13 Islamophobia and navigating politics as a Muslim

13:54 Palestine and his wife's family trapped in Gaza

19:33 Elon Musk calling him a racist

22:04 Navigating conflicts between Islam and politics

25:02 The Prophet ﷺ as the ultimate peacemaker

27:08 What's next for Humza Yousaf

28:31 Standing before God - what Humza would say

Yousef "FaZe Apex" is a Palestinian-American YouTuber and entrepreneur and co-founder of FaZe Clan, one of the biggest gaming and entertainment brands in history.

He joined at 14, grew his channel to over 6 million subscribers, and over 15 years helped build it into a cultural phenomenon that peaked at a $2 billion valuation.

After the company collapsed, he walked away. Throughout his career, he kept his Muslim identity hidden - praying behind locked doors, never revealing his real name to his audience.

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0:00 Introduction

1:07 Growing up Palestinian-American in Orange County

4:29 Visiting Palestine for the first time at 21

7:27 The story of his cousin who was killed

10:54 Studying Arabic and enrolling in Islamic studies

14:56 How 14-year-old Yousef discovered YouTube and gaming

16:58 Joining FaZe Clan

19:57 First $200 from YouTube

20:45 Why he hid his Muslim identity online

22:11 Getting hacked and swatted at his family home

24:03 Moving to New York at 18 and holding onto his faith

28:28 The moment a friend stopped him from smoking weed

30:10 FaZe Clan's explosive growth and business evolution

36:29 Learning business through experience vs education

39:49 The IPO, $2 billion peak, and the crash

44:55 Watching FaZe collapse and accepting Allah's decree

48:40 Why he deleted 1,200 YouTube videos after reading a Quran ayah

54:07 Advice to young Muslim creators on content

59:25 Khabib's influence and going public about being Muslim

1:04:29 Guilt over Palestine and trying to do enough

1:07:06 Building a new startup after FaZe

1:11:42 Why he paused content creation to focus on building

1:15:36 Applying to YC and learning the startup world

1:17:14 What legacy means to him

1:20:50 Stories of Abu Bakr and Omar that shaped his worldview

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Yusuf Adam is a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Blackburn who's done over £3 million in sales.

He started scanning £1 products in clearance aisles with his dad, scaled to £450,000 in profit, rejected a £200,000 deal with an Israeli company on principle, and built a software company along the way.

He now mentors young Muslims on building real wealth outside the traditional 9-to-5 blueprint.

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00:00 Introduction

02:28 How He Made His First Million in Revenue

04:18 Discovering Amazon FBA

05:33 Scanning Clearance Aisles With His Dad

07:01 Amazon FBA Explained For Beginners

09:42 How Much Capital Do You Need to Start?

15:22 Secret Sauce: Finding Your Competitive Edge

17:25 Biggest Headaches When Starting Out

20:00 Replacing Yourself: Outsourcing Low-ROI Tasks

22:31 How He Scaled to Seven Figures So Fast

24:31 Why He Didn't Drop Out of Uni

27:24 Building a SaaS for Amazon Sellers

30:27 When to Go Full-Time on Amazon

34:35 Rejecting a £200K Deal With an Israeli Company

38:38 Why Muslims Stay Stuck in the Traditional Blueprint

43:06 Why He Started a Paid Mentorship Group

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Muslim Founder Podcast - conversations with leaders who have built successful companies and organisations.

Our mission is to inspire Muslims to build things that empower the ummah.

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Mohammad Taher, also known as "The Airport Guy," is a content creator, entrepreneur, and former aerospace engineer who built a following of hundreds of thousands by sharing his journey through the aviation industry.

He started by documenting his graduate program at Heathrow Airport, eventually becoming an Aviation Ambassador for the UK government.

After being told at 16 that "they don't hire Muslims in aviation," he defied expectations, worked on critical airport systems, and built an independent platform that surpassed Heathrow's own social media presence.

Today he speaks at global aviation events - all while working toward his vision of redefining how the world sees Islam and building an ecosystem to solve the aviation industry's talent crisis.

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00:00 Introduction

01:44 The Struggle of Having Impact at Scale

05:44 Social Media as an Amanah

08:22 Don't Leave Your Faith at Home

11:42 "They Don't Hire Muslims in Aviation"

13:36 The Interview That Changed Everything

17:00 Getting Into the Heathrow Graduate Programme

19:31 His Auntie's Advice That Started It All

21:24 Navigating Content Creation at Work

24:40 Why He Stayed Independent from Heathrow's Brand

28:35 The Email That Changed Everything

31:38 "Expect a Resignation Letter"

34:30 What's next for Mohammad?

37:21 The Bigger Mission - Redefining Islam Globally

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