Muzamil Ahmad

At just 10 years old, Muzamil was afraid to ring up customers in his immigrant parents’ convenience store. Years later, he became the first MBA in his family, specializing in entrepreneurship and strategy. He grew up behind the counter, watching his parents navigate the daily grind of business with limited resources and unlimited resilience—where he first learned how hard, and how stressful, business can be.

Over the past 20 years, Muzamil has scaled startups from zero, led enterprise sales and enablement at Microsoft, and even sold medical services door-to-door in 114-degree Texas heat, in a suit and tie. He’s been the first hire, the co-founder, the strategist, the seller, and the coach. He’s also run a nonprofit and had to let go of a tenured “stick-in-the-mud.”

Muzamil is deeply committed to personal growth, having written over 60,000 words of a book aimed at helping young people avoid the mistakes he made. At one point, he bet on himself, sold everything he owned, and started over from scratch with nothing but courage. He’s taken 3 a.m. calls and walked founders through some of the scariest decisions of their lives.

He has lived nearly every phase of business and life with dirt under his nails and sweat under his collar. Through it all, he has learned that clarity, alignment, and sincerity are what move companies—and people—forward.

That’s why Muzamil guides. Because he knows what it’s like to start with nothing, to lose it all, to not know what to do next – and to find the way back.