🎤 Speaker Profile

Name: Amina Suleiman

Title: Founder & CEO, Loopline

Background: Amina Suleiman is a serial entrepreneur and product builder known for launching high-impact startups in emerging markets. As the founder of Loopline, a logistics tech platform revolutionizing urban delivery in Africa and Southeast Asia, Amina blends tech innovation with gritty, real-world application. She’s a Y Combinator alum, a former product lead at Stripe, and a champion of inclusive, ground-up innovation. Her superpower? Turning scrappy prototypes into scalable platforms that create real change.

🚀 Talk Title:

“Build Ugly, Scale Smart: Lessons from the Frontlines of Real-World Innovation”

🔍 Talk Description:

We all love sleek decks, perfect design systems, and polished launches—but that’s not how most world-changing startups actually begin.

In this straight-talking, experience-driven keynote, Amina Suleiman shares the messy, unfiltered lessons she’s learned from building products in chaotic markets, with tiny teams, and impossible deadlines. This talk isn’t about theory—it’s about what actually works when you’re building under pressure, with limited resources, for people who don’t have time for broken UX.

From MVP hacks to finding product-market fit in unlikely places, Amina will inspire builders to stay scrappy, stay grounded, and stay relentless.

Key Takeaways:

• How to test and iterate fast—even without funding

• Building for “real people” in messy, offline-first markets

• Why constraints can be your biggest advantage

• How to stay lean, sharp, and focused when scaling up

🎙 Sample Keynote Opening:

[Slide 1: Title Slide — Amina Suleiman | Build Ugly, Scale Smart]

“The first version of Loopline looked like a broken spreadsheet duct-taped to Google Maps. We had one developer, zero designers, and way too many problems. But guess what? That ugly thing worked—and we scaled it to five cities in six months.”

“Building smart doesn’t always look pretty. Sometimes, it looks like sweat, duct tape, and user feedback that stings. But that’s how the real stuff gets made.”

🧾 BIOS

🔹 Short Bio:

Amina Suleiman is the founder of Loopline and a serial entrepreneur building tech for real-world impact. A former product lead at Stripe, she now helps scale inclusive innovation across emerging markets.

🔹 Long Bio:

Amina Suleiman is the Founder and CEO of Loopline, a fast-growing logistics platform solving last-mile delivery challenges in high-density cities across Africa and Asia. A product visionary and startup veteran, Amina’s journey spans from scrappy MVPs to Series B rounds, with a focus on real-world tech that solves human problems. Before founding Loopline, she led product teams at Stripe and advised early-stage startups at Y Combinator. Amina believes great products aren’t born in labs—they’re forged in the field. Her mission? To empower the next generation of builders to start where they are and make things that matter.

🖥 PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1. Title Slide – “Build Ugly, Scale Smart”

2. “My First Product Was Trash—But It Solved a Real Problem”

3. “What MVP Really Means (Hint: It’s Not Fancy)”

4. “Build for Friction, Not Fantasy” – Understanding messy markets

5. “Scaling Lessons from Lagos to Jakarta”

6. “Hiring the Right People for Chaos”

7. “Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Perfect”

8. “Staying Grounded as You Grow”

9. “Make It Work, Then Make It Pretty”

📢 SOCIAL MEDIA PROMO CAPTIONS

LinkedIn:

Start small. Build fast. Stay real.

I’ll be at #FutureFront2025 sharing my raw lessons from scaling startups in tough markets with limited resources. If you’re a builder, hustler, or dreamer—this one’s for you. #StartupLife #LeanInnovation

Instagram:

🔥 From MVP to millions—without the fluff. Catch me at #FutureFront2025 where I’ll break down what really happens when you build for the real world. No filters, just facts. #StartupTalks #BuildUgly

Twitter/X:

Your MVP doesn’t need to be pretty. It needs to work. 💥 Join me at #FutureFront2025 where I’m sharing battle stories from the startup trenches. #FoundersLife #BuildSmart

💬 Audience Engagement Ideas

• Live Poll: “Have you ever launched something before it was ‘ready’?”

• Q&A Prompt: “What’s one thing you’d ship this week if you stopped aiming for perfection?”

• Interactive Slide: MVP Breakdown — show 3 early versions of successful products, and guess what they became

• Optional Handout: “The 7-Day MVP Plan” – A Mini Bootcamp for Scrappy Product Builders