Amna Razzaq.

I am Amna. Mom of five. I skipped a grade when I was young. Very smart of me. Except I quietly spent that jumped year back in college, because nobody taught me how to learn. They just expected me to keep performing. That gap stayed with me. College was a pendulum between too easy and too frustrating, and my own resistance to authority was sometimes in the way of learning.

Fast forward many years, and what defines success, what makes me trustworthy, what makes me dependable, what makes me investable, is a mix of skills and techniques I learned over decades, with a lot of hit and miss.

Today I spend most of my hours talking to founders building and scaling companies across the US and the GCC. The irony isn't lost on me. We break down every system, every process, every workflow when we coach adults on how to build and lead. But with kids, we hand them a curriculum and assume the art of learning will show up on its own. It doesn't. I have tried homeschooling. I have moved continents. I have tried both the British and American school systems.

I am also mom to a special needs teen. Which means I have watched what happens when education is broken down properly. Almost like therapy. Every micro-skill examined. Every step intentional. And it works. The absurd part is that we reserve that level of design for kids who "need" it, when in reality every gifted kid deserves the same care.

So my "why" is not only about building a better world for my own children. It is also shaped by the founders I learn from daily. The ones who taught me that how you build matters as much as what you build. This cohort is that lesson, returned to the kids who are going to build everything next.