Muslim Founder

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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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Follow Arib Khan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aribkhan/
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

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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https://www.youtube.com/@UCZ4GnufkU9g_wWUmmfaOKrA 
https://www.iqbalnasim.com/
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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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https://application.imaccelerator.com/sohaib
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Follow Abu Lahya:
https://www.youtube.com/@AbuLayha
https://www.instagram.com/abu_lahya1/
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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