You. Hi everyone. My name is Bilal. I am a startup founder based in London, UK. I started a company called Influence. We help creators monetize better using digital products. And I joined Fantasy Cafe, I believe in 2021 or 2020. I met Maddie via C startup school networking calls. She told me about this thing that she was working on. I was really interested and within a few weeks, I joined the community, the Founders Cafe community. And I joined the community because back in 2020 or 2021, we had a massive lockdown in the UK due to the pandemic and I just felt really lonely. I felt like I'm very isolated. I just finished college as well. A lot of my friends had moved back to their parents houses or back to where they came from around the world. So I felt like I was really isolated and I was trying to build a startup, whereas a lot of my friends were going on to get graduate jobs or jobs in real businesses. And I was just basically by myself with my roommate for a whole year, just building different product ideas or business ideas. And I thought I would join Vanish Cafe to meet other like minded people. And when I joined, I was shocked to see how active the community was, how impressive the people inside the community was. I mean, you literally have people that have either exited three, four, five businesses, have either raised tens of millions of dollars or have come from the best universities in the world. So the community is not huge, right? You don't have thousands of people, but that's the beauty of this Fantasy Cafe community. You only have a couple of hundred members, but every single person in the community has value to offer credibility, results, and our actual startup founders, and it's by far the most active community that I've been in for the last two years. I've been involved in many communities, none of which have been so intimate, active and supportive. In terms of results that I got from Founders Cafe, I basically made a lot of really good connections with other people that are building startups. And I mean, these guys are a lot more impressive than my results in business so far. A lot of them have given me a lot of advice on sales, marketing, fundraising. Fundraising. For example, one of the guys that I met through Fantasy Cafe who I still talk to, raised $2 million for his CPG brand. He was even featured on TechCrunch recently. And he's a guy that I can talk to anytime I can reach out to. He reviewed my pitch deck recently, and that's just one example of many other people. Another example is one of the guys who's an investment professional who runs an angel syndicate, reviewed my pitch deck for a whole hour. For a whole hour, right? I mean, imagine getting an investment professional to review your pitch deck for you. That would probably cost you a lot of money. I have no idea how much, but it probably cost you a lot of money. So those are the biggest things. The biggest result that I've had has been the people that I've met by far. And then the community also offers weekly calls about sales, marketing, tech, fundraising, hiring, HR, literally everything. I mean, there's weekly calls. Back when I joined, there was a call almost every day. So if you are a startup founder, if you are a first time founder, or even if you're a seasoned founder, but you're looking for a community and you're looking for a tight community of actual startup founders who have really impressive backgrounds and who are willing to support you and help you out, definitely join this community. I would definitely recommend it. And to be honest with you, a lot of it comes down to you just being very proactive. At the start, I was not very proactive. I was barely joining the calls, I was not communicating in a discord channel, and therefore my results was up. Part one, once I actually started commenting, talking Dming, getting on calls, my network just blew up. Right. And again, these guys have been really helpful, really supportive. So I would highly recommend it. If you're a startup founder, or if you're looking to get into startups, actually, even if you're not an entrepreneur right now and you just work somewhere, but you want to become a startup founder, you could join the Founders Cafe community and actually learn a lot before you even start your first business. Right? It's really affordable, really good, extremely active, and yeah, by far the best image that I've been in so far, and I would definitely recommend it. So, yeah, thank you very much for watching this and best of luck.

Testimony

Hi. Here's where you can submit a video testimony. I can't wait to see it. Thank you.

Bilal Sayed