In past few years, I shared my struggled as an entrepreneur. But what I’ve never shared at length is the deeply personal experiences and struggles that I gone through. I have had the chance to speak with
@humansofny
. I hope you’d enjoy reading it. ❤️🙏🏽
(1/11) “There is a moment I’ll never forget. My mother was teaching a class at our home, and my father hit her in front of the students. It was humiliating..."
This can only happen in the US!
Former Obama admin. national security official Stuart Seldowitz arrested yesterday for hate crime against Egyptian street vendor.
Upon finding, New Yorkers rushed to support and buy food from his ‘Halal Cart’.
Also, the woman who threw coffee…
Last week it was Brad Pitt. This week, it is
@aliaa08
spotted wearing
@Atoms
masks. Being a desi founder and a fan of some of Bollywood movies, this is immensely exciting for me to see :)
Well done
@adidas
team for copying
@WearAtoms
box design. It took our small team months of struggle to get it right and this is just lazy theft.
cc
@kustoo
.
@Atoms
hit profitability early this year! 🎉
In Q4, 2022 we had <6 months runway, onboarded a bad logistics partner, customers did not get their holidays orders on time, team morale was low.
A close friend advised me to shut down Atoms.
Here's what we did instead.
Shaun, there are only 14.3M Palestinians in the world and of whom 5.3M live in occupied West Bank and Gaza. Majority of them are living as refugees all over the world.
2.2M who are in Gaza are under heavy bombardment since last 30 days. 1M of them are just ‘children’ and Israel…
Why am I so vocal on the Israel-Gaza conflict right now? Let's do some napkin math
There are only ~15M Jews in the world
Of those, 6M live in Israel. Most of them are busy fighting a War
There are about 3M in extreme minority positions (750k in France, 600k in Russia, etc)
Friends, super thrilled to share that I am now leading
@Atoms
as the new CEO. 🙏🏽✨👟
This is a big responsibility, I’m grateful to
@waqasali
on building Atoms along me, & to our board, team, the Atoms community.
@jessicakmathews
did a story for Fortune
Imagine these are the guys who are working on advanced technology. He might be the best AI researcher but morally corrupt and advocate of genocide.
@OpenAI
that have been talking about building a human tech, he is their head of research. Aren’t guys like him a huge risk for…
I invite tech community who are utterly disappointed and feeling scared by reading tweets of tech VCs & tech bros that are intimidating, forceful and one sided morality lecture, to speak up openly and call them out.
Share how do you feel when children are dying no matter which…
@alexisohanian
@Columbia
That is not true, Alexis. It is a propaganda statement from the White House to keep people feeding the fear and create distractions for the cause. Jews students themselves are protesting. In fact, every protest in NYC is attended by a large group of Jews yo this day.
Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.
Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.
Most of the time you don't learn enough when you are in a chaotic moment, but once you are out of it, you learn a lot by looking back. Looking back is an important skill.
1/ We have sold/donating over 240,000 Atoms masks at cost. Congrats to the entire
@WearAtoms
team. From idea to roachblockers to execution so far.
Sharing some reflection and how it all came together:
@DaIit_panther
@sufisal
Govt and all its people are not the same. Here you are seeing people with love and the love from New Yorkers is at some other level. They live in tiny apartments with big hearts.
.
@paulbiggar
I don’t know how to say thank you to you. Being a founder in tech, many of us exactly felt the way you shared your experience. I am so grateful that you penned it down.
I agree, we should never pitch, never recommend and never make an intro to invest in,
@sequoia
…
Palantir CEO to CNBC, explaining his support for Israel with their warfare tech, "From my perspective, it's not just about Israel. It's like, 'Do you believe in the West? Do you believe the West has created a superior way of living?'"
I wonder if this is their technology, if…
@HenMazzig
@elonmusk
You are a founder of an organization which says, “The future of combating hate”. And someone who has shared a message for peace, you are calling that a genocide. May be this is a sign and a time for you to combat your own conflicting self. Or may be this is the reason you started…
There is this website call, ‘Genocide VC’ that is keeping records of tech VC’s tweets that incite hate, racism and genocide.
This is the about page..
———
“We call on all participants in the venture funded economy to end the support of genocide.
To…
This is the most difficult product launch I have ever had personally. The last few weeks have been quite heavy on all of us. I thought many times that perhaps we should not launch at this time.
But then I realized that this is the moment and time to build, to carry on with our…
Earlier this year, we co-created one of the most comfortable mid-top sneakers ever, representing
@MKBHD
's personal journey and our shared passion for products and storytelling.
Today, we have launched a new Matte Black M251.1 with three new features:
🫧 Water repellent
♻️…
My brother
@heyfaizan
just launched his book on Kickstarter. For 5 years, he has been interviewing people who travel through Metro Bus in Lahore, Pakistan.
It is so heartwarming to see these beautiful stories coming out. You can back the campaign here
This is such a pathetic clickbait tweet from someone who goes by as a Middle East analyst. The level of dehumanisation of Palestinian kids is shamelessly apparent.
Also,
@wolfejosh
I saw you retweeted this. I hope you do some intellectual effort to find the truth.
"Israel is…
Here’s an example of what the hostage deal looks like.
Israel receive:
10-month-old Kfir Bibas
Crime: Being Jewish
Hamas receive:
Misoun Mussa
Crime: Stabbed female soldier
Marah Bakeer
Crime: Stabbed border cop
Asra Jabas
Crime: Attempted car bombing
No equivalence.
People of light are conducting a massacre in the darkness.
What a day in modern history, in presence of human rights flag-barriers and so called human rights international law.
1 million children are there!!! 1,000,000💔
The Israeli military has said it will start expanding ground operations in Gaza - as "intense bombings" have already cut phone and internet services.
Latest:
Here is my experience when I tweet about Israeli military attacks in Gaza and killing of Palestinian children, 125 children/day, 6000 since Oct 7th.
That invites Israeli trolls who says same thing over and over again?
“Not us, Hamas is killing children, they killed 31 Israeli…
Sam, can you share your source of information?
This is the most visually recorded war of all times in human history happening just now.
We have seen bombardment on hospitals, churches, refugee camps, universities, ambulances, apartment building in highly dense areas. People…
.
@RBatniji
is one of the most respected entrepreneurs in Silicon valley. He lost 37 members of his family on 18th Nov by an Israeli airstrike. He recently met with Secretary Blinken and here is what he shared,
"I am Rajaie Batniji. I take no pride and no honor in being here.
I…
A white billionaire man saying to an accomplished black woman, you are not hired for your qualifications but for your color of the skin as diversity, equity and inclusion quota.
GUTS! THE AUDACITY! CHAUVINISM!
Respectful aunties, please stop glorifying how you took care of your child in front of new moms. If you want to be helpful, simply help.
Dear uncles, stop shredding your wisdom/analogies on importance of breastfeeding, you have no freaking idea, so shut the f*** up. 🧘♀️💛🙏🏽
Just reviewed Black Friday sales report,
We saw 102% growth in revenue with 6x ROAS from prior BF sales. This year we also started sales a day early.
60% of the sales came through from existing customers. A big shoutout to
@atoms
team and customers 🙏🏽🫶🏽
Pro-murder, pro-rape, pro-kidnap could not come to join here, Aviva.
You know why, because they are busy killing children in their home while they are sleeping, kidnapping them at the midnight from the West Bank and raping them in their jails.
People you see here at Macys…
I am not an Imran Khan supporter nor a Nawaz supporter, but the will of the people must prevail. This is the only way to build trust in democratic institutions and develop the country alongside its elected leadership.
Amidst the chaotic global politics, Pakistani people need the…
I called
@wolfejosh
out on his dehumanizing tweets for Palestinian children.
And invited him to learn about illegal detention of children in Israeli jails, he blocked me.
I’ll still try, I hope he watches this recent conversation by HRW director on CNN
…
Israel rules millions of Palestinians under separate legal regime, holds 2000+ in admin detention w/o trial/charge, routinely tortures, & abuses kids in detention—part of its apartheid. My comments on the hostage/prisoners exchange on
@CNN
@wolfblitzer
@kanwalful
Yes! More power to you gal!
My mother's sister also called my mother that I should take down my story from Humans of New York page :). So I am in the same boat of Besharam.
When I started Plan9 in 2012, I wrote about a young female entrepreneur in the first cohort of Plan9. Imagine my pride when the same entrepreneur,
@sidraqasim
, raises $8.1 M for her startup by the top investors in US.
This is what Pakistanis entrepreneurs are capable of doing!
This week we launched
@atoms
Kids Model 123 for my Aliff and many more kids of her age. So they can walk, skip, run and wonder in comfort.
#proudmammoment
🥹❤️
99% of the time when we both meet with people who knew our story. They would look at Waqas and start, you are doing amazing work, Sidra, you too. I respond with a smile.
Being born in a male dominant culture, I never thought I have to deal with this crap rest of my life.
Becoming a parent is like entering in an exclusive club. You only know this when you are in. The infinite love and belonging you can never feel otherwise.
#kidsareunderrated
To respected US congressmen who are tweeting and calling for interference in Pakistani elections to implement the 'will of the people': I have a request. Could you also listen to your own people and vote for a ceasefire?
How about doing the job you were elected for at home…
.
@nytimes
is complicit in genocide. They had run several unverified, highly sensitive stories one after the other.
They are racist, insensitive to people of color and have been dehumanizing Palestinian children while genocide is happening. I never quite understood why many had…
Peter, I agree with everything what you are saying here. Except that It is disappointing that you did not condemn Israel killing one child every 10 min, bombing hospitals, refugee camps, schools, religious places, blocking aid, food, water, electricity and displacing 2.2million…
I stand with my Jewish and Israeli friends. It’s disappointing that so many public and private institutions can’t state it clearly, even a month later: antisemitism should never be tolerated, and Hamas are terrorists. It’s that simple.
After seeing his tweets, I often wonder how he made it to this far. That must be some story to be told.
Just learned he lost a promotion for being a white male in tech. White men in tech which make 68.5% of the industry.
Oh and he got his own computer at the age of 7.
Okay,…
I would have never imagined been in a print edition of
@Entrepreneur
magazine. Here we are making waves while navigating through with the support and love of
@Atoms
community 🙏🏽
Pure Desi father daughter conversation.
@waqasali
: جلدی نال وڈی ہو تے سانوں چاہ بنا کے پیا۔۔ (grow up fast so you can make chai for us)
Aliff: hmm
@mmmm
🤝
Straight out of bed for Australia Pakistan T20 semi final cricket 🏏. Pakistan has won every match so far that Aliff watched! Hoping this to be the same!!!
Incredibly talented youth. Best food, music and culture. Sadly last 75 years of its journey, not a single prime minister served full term. The problem is, Army, Patriarchy and severe fever of elitism.
Introducing Atoms × MKBHD
Two years in the making, it represents a shared passion for high quality, comfort and innovation. The sneaker 251 is inspired by
@MKBHD
personal journey of becoming one of the best storytellers of our times.
Checkout the collab:
I will say it again, western political journalists did not do their job. Now they are catching up after two months to maintain some position in public eye.
They decided to not let the truth out when schools, hospitals and refugee camps were bombed ended up killing 6000 children…
~1% of the children in the total population of Gaza have been killed, missing and wounded, just in 45 days.
Here is the data on children killed during other wars,
0.1% of Syrian children were killed from 2011-2023
0.08% of Afghan children were killed in 20 years of war
0.02%…
Excited to share a glimpse of our journey so far and spirit behind building
@WearAtoms
Thank you
@NuevaYorkNico
and team for helping us telling our story. This was quite a fun project together.
The ideation, solidarity, reorganisation, research, coding and pm’ing of this group is at its next level.
Every day tech folks are spending hrs & hrs working on this voluntarily.
Please read this post by Paul to know more about the projects and why ‘Tech for Palestine’ has…
Met
@AndrewYang
last night and got a chance to listen to his vision of rebuilding American politics - super fascinating and courageous!
Also, he loved trying on his
@Atoms
:)
It is gonna be more than 48 hrs since IDF got the control. And we have not seen this underground tunnel that was shown in intelligence reports as an evidence for bombing a hospital, the main hospital in Gaza. The tunnel network in hospitals that was confirmed by President Bush…
The Shifa Hospital is not only the largest hospital in Gaza but it also acts as the main headquarters for Hamas’ terrorist activity.
Terrorism does not belong in a hospital and the IDF will operate to uncover any terrorist infrastructure.
My daughter's nanny on situation in Gaza said, "We black people know exactly what is happening, it is a colonialism, racism and a genocide all at once".
She is a 55 years old woman from Caribbean and herself lived under colonialism.
A very powerful message by this Israeli man (I wish I knew his name) ❤️
“I’d never trust him (Netanyahu), not him, not this govt. They are dangerous people. They are extremist, they are fascists, they are racists, they are fanatics.
They don’t want peace, they want war,…
It is not only just coordinated but also shamelessly gasslighting, bullying and spreading forceful misinformation openly.
I am sure they are discussing just now, how to dismantle your this tweet.
Thousands of Israeli people protesting in Tel Aviv just now for the release of hostages and resignation of Netanyahu.
May all hostages of both sides return back to their loved one! 🤍
I would never forget this moment. This is humanity that feels so lost these days. So much respect for Jewish people who risked their lives to raise their voice, their concerns for Palestinians, for children of Gaza.🫶🏽
Thousands are sitting in at Grand Central Station demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
.
In just two weeks, more than 7,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis were killed. Right now, Israeli warplanes are flattening entire neighborhoods in Gaza. This is what the US government is supporting.
As we close 2023, I reflect less about myself, and more about the world we are living in. The past year has been nothing short of eventful.
We thought we’d ease up once pandemic ended and here we began with a startling market crash, followed by unprecedented layoffs and financial…
Honored to be invited to the president house by President
@ArifAlvi
to discuss women empowerment & legal rights. Thanks to
@MalBokhari
for organising this important consultation on women empowerment & looking forward to seeing the recommendations being acted upon by the govt.
More than 100 children have been killed everyday since Israel started carpet bombing civilians.
One child every 15 min. It is horrific and a war crime. It is a genocide.
All nations must intervene and ask Hamas to release all hostages and to Israel for an immediate ceasefire.
We are four sisters. People used to show pity that my parents carry burden of 4 daughters. Now, one of my sisters has women's health startup, another playing in Pakistan national cricket team, an third one is a college principal. 💪
Imagine you get super power on your back, military operations powered by AI, have billions of dollars of funding, your tech, your businesses are booming, you have support of billionaires. Western journalists are afraid to write about your crimes. You have unlimited resources and…
Then they say, this is a war against Hamas and we don't want children to die. Yet they are bombing them in their sleep and also leaving wounded to die. Since past several weeks, they shamelessly bombed hospitals to prove their claims for Hamas’ headquarter and tunnel network…
The influence of powerful lobbies extends beyond politics, reaching into the tech and now educational institutions as well. The hostile responses from some tech bros & VCs towards pro-Palestine tweets, along with instances of shadow banning, Palantir open support, are indicative…
This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious.
Are these 1000 American Jews also antisemitic? Question for VC twitter that have been calling everyone antisemitic left right center who ever says, ceasefire or quote human catastrophe in Gaza or quote number of dead children bodies.
I have never been this much confused about a…
Over 1000 American Jews have been arrested protesting for ceasefire across the country. Proud of us showing up and refusing to accept genocide happening on our dime or in our name. Let’s keep going!
I just received incredibly sad news. Our team member, Aiden (Jung Gyewon), has passed away from influenza. He was a proud father of a 3-year-old.
Aiden joined us a year ago as a product innovation lead in South Korea.
He brought great attention to detail and quality to our…
The level of bullying, harassment and dehumanisation she faced from those bully-niars, I can’t wait for her to share her story at some point. She stood tall as much as she could.
Sad, deeply deeply sad.
We got really lucky to partnered with
@MKBHD
, not only he has an incredible taste but a very humble and genuine person.
So much to celebrate here, incredible taste, innovation, very personal story, a commitment to make a wearable and the most comfortable high-top in the world!
The core reason Atoms is based out of NYC, is because of our passion for creators. Two years ago, we had the opportunity to collaborate with one of our favorite creators, Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD), who is a top YouTuber, an athlete, and all around an incredible human being.
Hamas, sure! does this apply to Netanyahu and his govt as well, who have killed 6000 children and has shared their intentions for genocide multiple times including one person said, ‘nuke them’?
This kill pill has to be fair.
This is what call proof?
Isn’t it crazy that they are showing a random basement with ventilators, kids milk bottles, a chair and a rope? And for that they bombed hospitals, schools, refugee camps and killed more than 4000 children. Insane!!!
Discovered in the basement of
#RantisiHospital
:
a Hamas command center with weapons. Evidence also points to hostages being held here: The diapers, the bottles and more.
WATCH
@IDF
spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari:
When thousand powerful hands pulling you down and you only get one hand that can lift you up. That one hand is enough.
Remember to add your voice to support and to lift up the oppressed. You as one person, one and only voice in the room is enough for them to not give up.
Thanks,
@shopify
, for inviting me to the NYSE closing bell! Finally got to meet
@harleyf
in person. No idea how he maintains such high energy all the time. He says his job is that exciting!
Mark, you can Imagine how those people who lost more than 14000+ children and in total 35000 to Israeli bombs must be feeling. And it is still happening.
Now the imperfect democratic force starving the 100% of the population among them 1.1millions are children.
Everyday 10…
What happened to me? Nothing.
What happened to 1,200+ Israelis? They were murdered, mutilated & raped by terrorists.
And a group of privileged, no-nothings on the US far left blamed the victims.
This is the history of my ancestors. And that of my children if I don’t speak…
Last year when
@waqasali
and I met with our favorite writer
@mohammedhanif
In this photo Waqas is helping him to try on his
@WearAtoms
for the first time. It was one of the best moments 💛
May we all get chance to meet our heroes.