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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | So today's episode is a bit different. Yeah, I want to tell you about a guy, a brother, Muslim entrepreneur called Amjad Masad. |
| 0:07.4 | Okay. His company just got valued at three billion dollars. Wow. Yeah, that's a billion of a B. |
| 0:13.8 | Wow. You could call it Billy. Some do. Yeah. If you want to do that. He was, he's a Palestinian Palestinian born in Jordan. He started the company in 2016. |
| 0:23.2 | I'll get into this in the second what company is and stuff. As AI startup, but obviously |
| 0:27.8 | he's just hitting its, you know, say peak, but it's a peak right now going in 2026. So Muslim, |
| 0:34.9 | he's very pro-Palestinian and which is well of noting because he is in like the |
| 0:40.5 | belly of the beast in the way, he's in like San Francisco, right? |
| 0:43.8 | That's where he moved to. |
| 0:44.7 | That's where he, his investors are, it's where the company is based. |
| 0:48.0 | So he's faced a lot of backlash being pro-Palestinian very publicly, but he hasn't, he |
| 0:53.6 | never sort of gave any, gave any sort of notice to those who would like detract from him because of that. And I'm pretty sure he's mentioned he's lost like investors or something like that along the way, but he kept going. So he's a, he's quite inspiring from a few different angles, but, um, you know, in keeping of some FGs, you know, what we want to promote, |
| 1:12.3 | what we want to get behind. Obviously, we don't know everything about the brother. We don't know |
| 1:15.3 | his whole background. We can't endorse everything. From what we know, he's Muslim, pro-Palestinian, |
| 1:19.1 | and but amazing companies. I think we can learn a lot from him. Yeah, let's hear his story, man. |
| 1:23.6 | All right, listen, his AI startup called Replet, right? I've told you about, told you that Rep, maybe last year as well, and like sporadically hearing it, maybe on the pod, yeah? Is that the website that, where you can basically build a software by just giving it prompts? Yes. Okay. So that's what it currently, this is funny and very cool about this story, is that that's what it currently is. |
| 2:03.3 | When you first started it, it wasn't at that, right? We'll get, we'll get into that. But as of today, if you go to replet.com, you can, it's like chaty BT, but it will code whatever you want, but do it extremely well. And it's agentic, so it will go, it'll go away. You can close your laptop after you tell what you want. it'll go away, it will spend, depending on instructions, |
| 2:53.9 | you can spend all night coding while you sleep essentially to build you a massive product and as long as you've got like enough funds in the account to fund it it'll it'll build for 12 hours 24 hours straight if you want it to without your input and you come back and it's like and it's done or it's like hit a milestone that you told to stop at you can check things but recently it's also built it so that it checks itself right so the agent debugs itself right it's one of the biggest issues of AI coding tools is that it'll build it but it's very buggy and it's not really usable and it's like lots of stuff gone wrong replica actually before it presents it to you, it goes through debugging process where it uses it. Oh, this is wrong. This is wrong. It debugs it. Um, so it's very, very, it's brilliant, quite frankly. And that's why they just got valued at $3 billion. Yeah. Well. Hey guys, just a quick, uh, little pit stop in this episode. Uh, just let you know that we, drum roll, please, |
| 2:54.5 | uh, and really I'm just saying that because I went blank. Um, there was not even a needful drum |
| 2:59.7 | or in fact, instruments are haram. Uh, so anyway, uh, I was just going to say, if you like |
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