Why I Built This with Yazin Alirhayim

​Yazin Alirhayim built a Stripe for the Middle East, and it ended up inside Amazon.

​now he has $60k of AI credits to burn, and he's burning them on Tilawa, open-source Quran tech that doesn't make him a penny.

​he's our guest for Why I Built This #7, and we can't wait to ask him why this one is free.

​🗓 date: tuesday 20th october 2026

​🕡 time: doors 6:00pm – 9:00pm

​📍 location: Shoreditch, London

​we'll go through his story a chapter at a time:

​→ White Payments, and how it ended up part of Amazon Payment Services

​→ Amal Invest, the halal investing app he took through Y Combinator

​→ Tilawa, and what one person can build with AI now

​→ the week he posted "failed spectacularly"

​→ the time his AI cheated on its own accuracy test by reading the file names

​a 35-minute conversation and 15 minutes of your questions, with refreshments and halal food either side.

​come for the story, leave with something to build.