Abdul-Rahman

If last year was great. This year was 🤯. Alhamdullilah. 10 days. 3 houses. 22 Muslims in tech. The houses were packed mashallah with founders including 3x YC founders, exited founders, VCs in the Muslim space, apps with millions of users, founders of Muslim accelerators and engineers working at leading companies. People flew in from 🇬🇧🇦🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸🇧🇭🇳🇱🇮🇪 to make this. SF Tech House | 2024 Edition | The Highlights: ✨ House dinners with Muslims from companies including Microsoft, Tesla, Google, YouTube & Neuralink ✨ Private house fireside chats with special guests including exited founder to Uber, ex-VP at Google Cloud and Sami Hamdi (Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي) ✨ Muslim Tech Fest (Muslim Tech Fest) - Haroon's talk was literally one of the best I've ever heard. ✨ Discussions around AI & Ethics at Zaytuna College with Hamza Yusuf. ✨ Visits to Stanford (absolutely stunning ... had to get me some merch) & Berkley university campuses ✨ MTW Kick Off Lunch at Sals + Tech Dinner at Zareens ✨ Lunch + tour of Google with their Muslim Network including a Demo Day at their offices. We asked some important & tough questions. ✨ White Water Rafting on South Fork American River. ✨ Q&A at YC with YC Partner Brad Flora who was very nice and accommodating. ✨ & Buildspace tour with Omar Waseem + Q&A with their GP Hubert Thieblot ✨ Visit to Apple Visitor Centre in Cupertino ✨ Experiencing Waymo (driverless taxi) in San Francisco ✨ BBQ with Muslims in Tech in South Bay ✨ Marshmallows on the Beach with the Muslim Bay Area community It was an unbelievable week packed with value and amazing vibes alhamdullilah ❤️ The talent in the house was insane. A text I received from someone staying in the house after returning home: "I can without doubt say that there are a few unicorns coming out of that house. What you’ve done is unprecedented for our community, I always felt we were the underdogs, I can almost certainly say after this that we are now in the lead. I don’t think there is any other community who is so supportive of each other, while being ambitious to try to build great things alhamdulilah." We all left with huge determination to build impactful solutions for humanity, to encourage ihsaan (perfection) and and to bring some of our learnings from the Bay Area to our respective countries to help build Muslim tech ecosystems across the world. I pray this trip helped plant some seeds 🌱 We'll be measuring the success of it by the progress we see in the years to come inshaAllah!

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