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Shiza Shahid

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Our Place · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shahid co-founded the non-profit Malala Fund alongside Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and served as its founding CEO to champion global access to girls' education. In 2019, she co-founded the direct-to-consumer kitchenware company Our Place, which gained widespread popularity for mission-driven, multicultural culinary products like the Always Pan.

11statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.73/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 3 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Shiza argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Shahid: There is no direct Urdu word for entrepreneur
“There's no word for entrepreneur in Urdu. The closest we have is, I don't know, businessman probably merchant trader.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 27:59 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Shiza Shahid on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Shiza Shahid said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Shahid: The West celebrates marginalized girls without letting them lead organizations
“When you hear stories of, you know, brown girls who are subjected to horrible things, we celebrate them in the West, we put them on covers on the West, but we don't allow them to lead their own organizations. We don't allow them to be entrepreneurs.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 19:48 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Opinion
Shahid: Regional restrictions on girls' education stem from geopolitics, not Islam
“Islamic societies have long pushed forward in fields of education and mathematics and art, and I think a lot of what has happened in the region has really been geopolitical and not inherent to the culture in any way, not inherent to the religion in many ways.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 24:31 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shahid: Funders told the 22-year-old she needed an older male leader
“I would have people literally say to me, you need a guy with white hair in this room.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 26:22 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Insight
Shahid: Taliban gained initial support promising social change, not school bans
“This group had come in, like most Terrorist groups saying, your community has suffered injustice. We're going to solve real social challenges in the way of Allah, right? Give us your gold and stand with us. So they didn't come in saying, we're going to blow up…”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 13:24 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Insight
Shahid: Icons should build their own organizations instead of lending their names
“Building something that you really believe in, that lasts forever, potentially. And so, you know, don't lend your name. Do something that is yours, that comes from you, that you fundamentally believe in.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 19:27 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Insight
Shahid: Longer tenure in nonprofits makes launching a business harder
“The longer that you're in the nonprofit world, the harder it will be for you to launch a business.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 30:59 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Opinion
Shahid: E-commerce startups underestimate the difficulty of custom product manufacturing
“And I, you know, I've invested in e-commerce companies and by and large, I think most of them will build a brand and get really good at marketing and forget how hard it is to make great products and not just great products, but products from scratch.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 39:43 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Insight
Shahid: Nonprofits Should Fund Social Entrepreneurs Lacking IPO Paths
“Nonprofits should Take risks. The market won't, right? Fund social entrepreneurs where there probably isn't a path to an IPO or an exit, but those social entrepreneurs will then lay the groundwork for the next and the next, and eventually that market starts to…”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 43:45 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Insight
Shahid: Malala's story humanized the crisis of 130M out-of-school girls
“I really think just, you know, the world was shocked that in the 21st century a girl could be shot simply for wanting to go to school, and it took this issue of girls' education, one hundred and thirty million girls who are out of school, and it humanized it, …”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 16:42 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shahid: Our Place reached profitability in its first year
“We faced absolutely every rejection in the world, but that forced us to get scrappy, and so we were profitable our first year in business”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 37:26 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
Assertion Supported
Shahid: There is no direct Urdu word for entrepreneur
“There's no word for entrepreneur in Urdu. The closest we have is, I don't know, businessman probably merchant trader.”
Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 27:59 HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 29m
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