From selling small things to survive, to coding his way through engineering school, to bootstrapping Kustard with friends and selling it to eBikeGo, this episode breaks down exactly how he climbed out of his circumstances.

Now he’s building ClanX, betting on the future of work.

What you’ll learn:

• How to build leverage when you start with zero capital
• The scrappiest ways to survive while bootstrapping
• How to get your first customers with no brand or network
• What founders get wrong about exits
• How to negotiate an acquisition when you’ve never done one before
• Why growing up with nothing can become your unfair advantage
• What to build if you had to start from zero today

If you’re a founder starting without connections, money, or privilege, this is a required story to watch on building, surviving, and selling.

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A sit-down with Spek, the founder of PopArabia, the company powering music rights and royalties across the Arab world and South Asia, and part of billion-dollar group Reservoir.

His roster includes JID, Mohamed Ramadan, and Nancy Ajram, and his bet is clear: the next global hits won’t come from LA or London, they’ll come from emerging markets.

What you’ll learn:

• How music rights and royalties actually work

• How to build global infrastructure from scratch

• Why culture is the next big growth market

• What it takes to take on Sony, Universal, and Warner from Abu Dhabi

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In this episode of founder mode, Abdallah Abu Sheikh shares the exact playbook that helped him raise half a billion dollars and scale AstraTech into a global unicorn with 150 million users across 155 countries, from the Middle East.

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