Founder & CEO of @LaunchGood & @Patronicity over $300 million raised. Do-Gooder, Proudly Muslim, Dad, Husband, Michigander + New Englander 🍀🏀🏈
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73,000 campaigns
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I’ve always said, the unfair advantage I’ve had building @LaunchGood are my cofounders @Killawia & @omarehamid
So many startup founders struggle to stay together - ego, clashing visions, stress etc can all get in the way.
I’ve been so blessed to work with these two amazing founders, and together navigate through so many ups and downs - personally and professionally - to stay focused on Uplifting the Ummah.
We started as young, bright-eyed Muslims who simply saw an amazing community that was underserved. We had no idea the challenges we’d face, nor the incredible impact we’d have. We didn’t even have children!
Now we’re all spouses, parents, and - I pray - model business leaders.
What’s most exciting: it feels like we’ve just started, our greatest adventures still lay ahead
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Brief but blessed visit to London - caught jumuah at ELM and a nice halal lunch with some of the team at our new office
I thought UK was gloomy? Sun shining! Beautiful day and people MashAllah 😃
Oops, got rerouted to London for the day (mechanic issue with plane). Who’s around East London this jumuah?
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Got this feedback for our new app, playing around with some ideas. What do you like?
"How can we improve your experience?
You could add some widgets. One cool thing would be to create a widget of the “Giving tree” this would help us to visualize in our home screen how much have we given."
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Pristine launch video, you got me @thesubmitter_ - loading up some funds. Let’s see how it goes!
ps - really well done app, beautiful design and smooth experience 👌
pps - I receive nothing for this promo. If I have a bad experience I won’t be shy to share 😃
Muslims once financed the world’s trade without interest.
For the first time in centuries, we can return to that.
$2M+ deposited during our invite-only beta. Today, Goldsand is live on iOS and Android.
Halal savings built a new way: to beat interest, not settle. Here’s how ↓
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MashAllah @FarzaTV keeps cooking
Today, we're shipping real-time graphics.
Using Sol 6.1 Ultrafast we can generate custom overlays, diagrams, and even interactive 3D scenes right on a user's screen, no chat.
It's a new visual interface for AI.
Here's me learning about LLMs + hardware.
Demo:
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Asked and delivered @BilalIsmailZA - we added 6 more currencies! Try it out (actually default for you in South Africa should be Rand now)
ps - anyone in Nordic countries want to test out the Krone/Krona currency?
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Excited to start "Breaking Burnout" by Nabeela Elsayed on my long flight to Cape Town tomorrow!
A recent discussion I've been having with my leadership team is, at least at the moment, AI is making us *more* busy not less.
It's a blessing in taking on bureaucratic work, and enabling us to move faster - but that just leads to even more work to review.
I have a feeling this book is going to be really even more essential in this new AI-powered work age.
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I’m so locked into this discussion - and it’s interesting because I have two companies at very different stages to consider: LaunchGood as a mature company, with 100+ teammates and shifting the way we work; and PayGood a new AI-first company with tiny team
Replit's Amjad Masad with Gagan Biyani on how agents will reshape the way companies work: bureaucracy runs in the background, people get true autonomy, and eventually the company runs itself.
Amjad: "In Silicon Valley there's been so many experiments to try to change the nature of firms, of how companies work... But I think it was a technology problem."
"Now you can have agents kind of function as the glue within these organizations and have the bureaucracy be this invisible thing that's happening by machines in the background, and the people have true autonomy to work on the things that they find most interesting."
"I see it in our company where I've changed how I run the company, and we call it this idea of a self-driving company. Eventually the company will run itself."
Gagan: "The thing I feel very certain about is it's all gonna change. It's gonna change a lot faster than you think. And if you're not natively understanding of it, it's gonna be hard to make that shift."
Amjad: "If you're learning the ways of the past, then you're kind of locked into a way of thinking and a way of working that actually will put you at a fundamental disadvantage in the future."
@amasad @Replit @GaganBiyani
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Heading to South Africa and Malawi for LaunchGood tomorrow for the next 2 weeks - any recommendations people to meet and places to visit?
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The TikTok link if that's your kind of thing: vt.tiktok.com/ZSg4kLMN2/
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Company-wide hackathon this week at @LaunchGood - really excited for this one. It's our 4th in last 2 years, and first where it's mandated for 100% of employees
Why?
Hackathons have gone from fun, creative exercise to actually building products, agents & features that make it to production
Excited to share what everyone builds by end of week!
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Had a great, quick YYZ trip - so magical seeing the team together, stuff gets shipped super quick! Like this enhanced event mode (coming out soon). Lots more customization on top of an already excellent in-person fundraising experience
In Toronto 🇨🇦 for our annual Ramadan onsite for @LaunchGood - what would you like to see, as a donor or fundraiser, this Ramadan on LaunchGood?
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In Toronto 🇨🇦 for our annual Ramadan onsite for @LaunchGood - what would you like to see, as a donor or fundraiser, this Ramadan on LaunchGood?
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Chris AR Blauvelt retweeted
A Personal Appeal for One of Our Young Brothers
I want to bring to your attention the difficult situation of our young brother Qutaiba Alsaif, who used to pray with us at EPIC Masjid and whose family is involved in our masjid. Qutaiba has suffered a severe spinal cord injury after an accident, and is now facing an incredibly challenging road ahead.
I ask our community to come together and support him during this difficult time. This is one of our own, and he needs our compassion, generosity, and duʿāʾ.
The Prophet ﷺ taught us that believers are like one body: when one part suffers, the rest responds with care and concern.
Please contribute whatever you can, share this appeal, and keep Qutaiba and his family in your prayers.
May Allah grant him complete shifāʾ, ease his suffering, and bless him with strength and recovery. Āmīn.
Donate here: launchgood.com/v4/campaign/d…
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Head of Growth & Revenue: LaunchGood has come a long way in its 13 years, with fundraisers & donors in nearly every country in the world (see LaunchGood.com/1448)
Now we're looking for that person who will help us leap forward to the next level of growth, to be at the scale of Gofundme and beyond, supporting not millions but billions of dollars in annually fundraising.
If you have that experience and passion, let's connect.
LaunchGood.com/Careers
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what do we think of the new Muzz ads? 👍👎
Loving the new @muzz_app TV ads!
Because some Muslims are Not for Everyone.
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Subhanallah how much does this Hadith reflect today’s realities?
“Hasten to do good deeds before six signs:
1. foolish leaders
2. proliferation of enforcement [eg secret police]
3. bribery in judgment
4. bloodshed is taken lightly
5. family ties are severed
6. a generation are brought up treating the Quran as musical instruments; they put forth one of them to sing for them, though he is the least of them in understanding.” Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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