Muslim Founder
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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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 regulato...
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 inc...
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 le...
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...
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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 bui...
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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...
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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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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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...
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 roadm...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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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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 expe...
Sheikh Sajid Umar is a qualified judge, scholar, and educator who has spent the past two decades working with Muslim communities worldwide.
He's helped Muslims navigate Islamic principles in modern contexts - from Islamic finance and business to family life and personal development.
Sheikh Sajid is also the author of several books, including his commentary on Surah Yusuf as well as his latest work, "A Journey to Success".
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Peter Gould is a designer and author who has spent over two decades integrating Islamic spirituality with contemporary design.
He's the founder of Gould Studio and author of "The Heart of Design," developing frameworks that apply Islamic principles to creative work.
His influence extends from designing products for Muslim families to teaching Islamic design concepts to big tech companies such as Apple and Google.
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Adil Abbuthalha is the Founder of Boycat, an app that has diverted over $200 million from companies supporting Israeli interests.
Adil studied at UC Davis, California, before starting his career in Silicon Valley, where he worked at a number of notable tech companies.
In 2023, after the ongoing events in Palestine, he launched the boycat app that would put him on government watch lists worldwide.
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Mohammed Paracha is a Partner and Head of Middle East at Norton Rose Fulbright, one of the world's largest law firms.
He began his career in the early 2000s and has become a pioneer of Islamic Banking.
Beyond his law career, he’s also the co-founder of Nester, a regulated Shariah-compliant investment platform in the UK.
Earlier this year, Mohammed also completed nearly 10 years of Islamic studies to become a qualified scholar.
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