Chapter One of Many
A short, honest account of the decisions that got him here — the immigrant hustle, the chessboard, the scholarship, and the company he built on a single stubborn idea. Told straight, and the ones he'd make again.
Ahad falls for chess — the one game where luck doesn't get a vote. Sixty-four squares, no dice, no excuses. The board teaches him early that outcomes are earned, not handed out. It becomes the lens he sees everything else through.
He lands at Huron University College, Western University, on the Aga Khan Leaders with Heart Scholarship — $176,000 that came with an expectation, not just a cheque. He picks Business Intelligence and a minor in Entrepreneurship: learn the numbers, then go make something with them.
He leads a cross-functional team to win the RBC Community Innovation Bootcamp against ten-plus teams, runs finances as VP for the BMOS Student Association, and sells Cutco door-to-door — $600 in his first week — because persuasion is a muscle you only build in the reps.
He wins the E-Chess Jubilee Games — national champion, 99.9th percentile, a 2150 rating — then turns the thesis into a company. Wager960 is born: real money, staked on 1v1 chess, where the sharper mind takes the pot. Concept to MVP, twenty-five beta testers, an $11,000 grant.
Selected into the Summer 2026 cohort at the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, he's scaling Wager960 with the same discipline that got him here — measured, deliberate, and in good company. The story is still early, which is exactly how he wants it.
Demo Day · Morrissette Institute 2026
“THE ONLY BAD BET IS A SMALL ONE.”
