#3 Yama Saraj 🇦🇫🇱🇺 - I always wanted to fight for my community

🎤 "If you don't have role models, be a role model!" 💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Yama, a Dutch-Afghan changemaker with many lives: from creating his own social startup (recycling car tyres to produce punching bags) to lecturing R&D at university, launching an inclusive investment fund, and much more! Yama will share with us how all his different experiences ultimately connect towards his life purpose: to bring more diversity into the French startup ecosystem and to contribute to the development of Afghanistan. ❤️ TIMELINE: 4’ - Moving to Paris with a startup, lots of ideas, and no money 11’ - Growing up in The Netherlands as a refugee 21’ - Going back to Afghanistan to have an impact 27’ - The secret to networking: solve people’s problems & pay it forward 31’ - Bringing more diversity in the tech ecosystem 37’ - Launching an inclusive venture capital fund 45’- Recycling car tyres to produce punching bags 👉 You can continue asking him questions on his Ask Me Anything page , support his startup's crowdfunding campaign and connect with Yama on LinkedIn . 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube . Apple Podcasts . Spotify Deezer . 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app . Leave your email for the weekly newsletter . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.