The story side of Career

Saham

Founder of Saham 2019-2022.

I co-founded Aces, a media solutions agency where Mohammed and I had customers who were mostly gamers (YouTubers and Streamers). We were responsible for editing the videos and visual content. We worked for PUBG Mobile Sudanese League (PMSL), which was the biggest Sudanese league at the time, with the highest awards for esports. We continued our journey in E-Sports Media Production until we decided to change the market in mid-2022. Saham was born, and we initially had plans to target Sudanese businesses. We made a bit few money, and suddenly everyone got busy with their life.

TutiPay 2023-March

When I joined the university in 2022, I had no time to follow up with Saham; gradually, all members left it. Despite traveling in the first year and only attending finals, I was able to join clubs and communities every now and then. I joined GDSC, and I got to know many members, including Reem Mohammed, who introduced me to an opportunity as; designer at a Fintech startup called Tutipay, co-founded by Mohammed Yousif (the person Reem shared my contact with).

I was lucky, he knew my elder brother, later he tasked me to do some illustrations (I was kinda bad at Adobe Illustrator, but I managed to get it done), and I was invited to an interview, after a day they told me I'm in. I was 18, and that was my first position in a startup. I did everything from graphics design, video editing, and animations to user experience and interfaces. Despite only showing up in the office 3 times, I worked remotely most of the time.

We were building the next Fintech solution for Sudanese people. Our funding was good, but unfortunately, the joy never continued as the war happened, and we couldn't manage to get anything from our office.

Tutipay journey taught me a bunch of stuff

Connections are important to find opportunities
You need to showcase your skills. If Reem never knew what I could do, she would never recommend me
I felt I was not the center of the world, and there were more people out there building real things, working tirelessly, and more experienced
that companies require funding and teams (you can't do it all yourself)
A kind CEO or CTO is all you need
Working with people who share the same mindset is perhaps the best environment you can work in.