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Kaya and Faisal break down the rise of a Muslim founder whose AI company is now valued at $3B—from coding in a Jordanian internet café and getting rejected by YC four times… to building a browser-based IDE in 2016, then pivoting into agentic AI that codes, debugs, and deploys while you sleep.
We pull out the real lessons: grit over hype, "die on the path," and why building within halal limits brings barakah (with cautionary stories about riba). We also spotlight MENSPIRE, a global barbershop chain built on Muslim values (no music, no gossip, family-safe) that still scaled—proof you can build infrastructure for the community without compromising.
Plus: dopamine from doing (not doom-scrolling), showing up daily, and being agile like water when markets shift.
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Kaya and Faisal break down the rise of a Muslim founder whose AI company is now valued at $3B—from coding in a Jordanian internet café and getting rejected by YC four times… to building a browser-based IDE in 2016, then pivoting into agentic AI that codes, debugs, and deploys while you sleep.
We pull out the real lessons: grit over hype, "die on the path," and why building within halal limits brings barakah (with cautionary stories about riba). We also spotlight MENSPIRE, a global barbershop chain built on Muslim values (no music, no gossip, family-safe) that still scaled—proof you can build infrastructure for the community without compromising.
Plus: dopamine from doing (not doom-scrolling), showing up daily, and being agile like water when markets shift.
👉 Join FG Premium: https://fgtribe.com
👉 Hot Food Distribution in Gza: https://launchgood.com/freshlygrounded
📧 Freshly Grounded Newsletter: https://tribe.freshlygrounded.com/subscribe
💪 Buy The Game: https://shop.freshlygrounded.com
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