Rayyan Khan
@rayyanfkhan
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ceo @foundersarm, the full-stack recruiting firm for startups.
SF
Joined February 2024
june/july 2024 - $0 in personal account - credit cards maxed out - car accident ($2,000 repair rinsed what i had left) - car broken into + camera stolen - tire burst on the highway - considered selling my belongings to make rent - couldn't buy my brothers food when they came to
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instagram is a cesspool of: - posting a version of you that isn't real - living through other peoples achievement + life - echo chamber of external events/opinions/noise that contribute to nothing
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multiple 1 year anniversaries for employees paired with our clients beyond blessed to build a company that is people first :)
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reputation is just as important as any other funnel in your company had a call with someone who was an employee at our clients startup a year ago he remembers working with our VA’s didn’t remember their name, qualifications, or role just that they spoke good english and
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everyone talking about investing seed but when i do it they want to kick me out of the fertility clinic
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people will always let you down always have a contingency plan business. systems. relationships.
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scaling software is easy when you can scale talent started working with @pamhqai last year after i met @BeardAintWeird_ in san francisco as they’ve scaled to $10million ARR they’ve hired 10+ people through founders arm across customer support + ops definitely one of our most
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story on how COVID was the turning point of my life i moved to america from the UK in 2019, and covid hit 6 months later new country. no friends. just stuck inside for the next 2 years. i had just failed highschool in the UK. had 0 interest in college. i was stuck in limbo
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getting a minor surgery this week and out this week entire company runs on autopilot so will continue making money thank you delegation + va’s
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open your heart to others and Allah will always provide more even if it's never in this world
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i’ve left san francisco and i’ve been trying to figure out what’s next if you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that i moved to SF last year to go all into my first company i arrived broke with no idea on how to build a company i was just a college dropout with
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asked my close friend if he wanted to run a 2 man he did not want to start a new company w me :(
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talked to someone who built and sold their company for $400million last week lesson: what you built for your first 100 customers isn’t what you build for the next 1,000 so you should periodically throw out everything you believe in this includes: what you think what your
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small thing i've picked up being a CEO: knowing when to push people there'll be weeks where you're in crunch time and need all hands on deck employees are expected to show up no matter what and deliver but when it comes to the slow weeks? show some flexibility even if it
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