We assumed venture was foreign to Muslims. It is the opposite. Profit sharing ran the Islamic world for a thousand years, Italy borrowed it, Sand Hill Road inherited it. Venture is native to Islam.

No you didn't! Be honest Ankur, what did you actually buy?

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US. Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured. These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax! We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions. These are two possible routes I see: 1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair. 2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.

Muslims are 2 billion strong, yet we’ve never built real economic connectivity in the West. A dollar should flip through our community again and again before it ever leaves. Capital backs founders, founders create jobs, jobs create wealth, and that wealth gets reinvested into our own. That’s the engine we’re building with @DhowApp. A social private markets platform where Muslim investors, founders, and operators connect, learn, and invest together. Our first product, Dhow Horizon Fund I: a $5M seed fund backing Muslim-origin and values-aligned tech founders across North America. Institutions gate venture at $250K+. We set ours at $10K. Two institutional commitments in, first close in weeks, founding spots filling fast. We’re not waiting for access. We’re building ours. Economic power isn’t just what you boycott. It’s what you build, who you back, and where you put your money. The app is live, free to download 👇 apps.apple.com/us/app/dhow-p… UI built using @Replit. Built with insight from @tech4palestine and @alifdotbuild’s Sessions program.

I’m such a data nerd that I always love @PeterJ_Walker ranking drops. Austin is 5th overall, which tracks other data sets. Punching above our weight: Healthtech 3rd, Austin’s highest share at 10% Hardware 3rd Consumer 4th On pace: AI 5th Lagging: Gaming 6th Biotech, Energy & Fintech outside the top 10 I think energy is partly a timing issue given the major players scaling here. The pattern fits my Austin thesis. Atoms, bits & intelligence are converging here. 🤠🚀🦾

They reinvented the hearing aid by studying the human ear Normal hearing aid: $4700 Theirs: $20