Muslim Founder

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.

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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.

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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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https://replit.com/
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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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Follow Mariam Ahmed:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamaahmed/
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