Founder of Buildspace, Farza Majeed joins our group of young founders on THE PATH PODCAST from the Founders Inc. studio in San Francisco.

The Path is the #1 podcast in the world for young founders, entrepreneurs, and creators, hosted by Alex Schachne and Arib Khan, with special guest host Imran Muthuvappa, co-founder of Kayyo (https://kayyo.co).

We discuss everything from Farza's early days as a founder, starting Buildspace + raising $10m from YCombinator and a16z, creating a new life path for builders and creatives, finding mentors, faith, failure, finding meaning & more…

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:21 Buildspace + creating a new school
2:30 Getting into YCombinator
3:40 Reflecting on startup life
4:37 Buildspace's vision
6:52 Changing the culture of education
8:14 Imran’s path from restaurant server into startups
10:10 The history of the school system
11:33 A new path for young builders
12:35 Scaling Buildspace to 100,000 students
16:20 Finding the mentor that changes your life
17:35 How Farza met Furqan + Sharif at F.inc
19:50 How Imran met his cofounder on TikTok
21:05 How Alex found Farza + F.inc
22:40 Farza giving his brother 10k to move to SF
24:00 How Arib joined Buildspace + F.inc
26:25 Serendipity + taking chances
27:45 Faith and the spiritual journey for founders
29:30 Imran’s relationship with Islam + mental health
38:08 Farza’s journey with failure + faith
42:50 Imran on designing his life
45:20 Suffering + finding meaning in life