Yasser Soliman

Founder & CEO at Thigmo

irvine, california, united states

Member since September 2025

Yasser Soliman is the founder and CEO of Thigmo, one platform for events and community - start with either, designed for mission-driven leaders, organizers, and businesses to build, grow, and fund their online communities. With nearly 20 years of experience leading technology innovation, Yasser has made it his mission to build platforms that empower people, protect dignity, and drive real-world change. He brings a founder’s mindset, a product leader’s precision, and a relentless drive to create ecosystems where communities thrive.Throughout his career, Yasser has excelled in ideation, design, and software product development, with a deep focus on turning meaningful ideas into scalable solutions. Under his leadership, Thigmo has grown into a movement, helping event organizers, nonprofits, businesses, and creators build real communities, not just followers.

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The hidden tax on your community leadership

Most community organizers spend more time as data entry clerks than as leaders. It is the hidden tax of the industry that nobody talks about. You spend your day copy-pasting email addresses from a registration list into a spreadsheet and then into another email tool. By the time you actually get to talk to your community you are too tired to say anything meaningful. This is exactly how burnout starts and it is killing the passion in our industry.

The technical friction of running a community is at an all-time high. When you have to manage five different apps just to host one event things are going to break. People fall through the cracks and relationships that should have lasted for years end up disappearing after a single weekend. We are essentially building houses on sand and wondering why they don't stay standing.

We need to fix the chores that eat our time.

Moving away from manual data entry for every single attendee.
Finding a way to keep the conversation going once the event ends.
Making it easier for sponsors to see the value they are getting.
Keeping all our member info in one place that actually makes sense.

When we fix these friction points we give ourselves room to breathe. The goal is to get to a place where the tools work for us instead of us working for the tools. We should be building connections not just managing lists.

If your tools are making you tired they are the wrong tools.

Community Building

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The hidden tax on your community leadership

We need to fix the chores that eat our time.

Moving away from manual data entry for every single attendee.
Finding a way to keep the conversation going once the event ends.
Making it easier for sponsors to see the value they are getting.
Keeping all our member info in one place that actually makes sense.

If your tools are making you tired they are the wrong tools.

Community Building

Building a tech startup is mostly a series of expensive mistakes.

This year has been a big learning experience for me. Not the kind you read about in books, but the kind you only learn by getting things wrong and fixing them.

One of the biggest lessons was realizing that we shouldn’t be building for “organizations” as an idea. We should be building for the people doing the actual work.

The person staying up late trying to coordinate 20 vendors for a gala.
The community manager working hard to keep a Facebook group from turning into a spam mess.
The organizer juggling too many tools just to keep things from falling apart.

These are the people who really feel the pain of broken and fragmented systems. Not in theory, but every single day.

Once we started thinking this way, a lot changed. We stopped asking what looks good on paper and started asking what actually makes someone’s life easier.

I’m still learning. Still making mistakes. But this shift has been one of the most important ones.

Curious to hear from you.

What’s the hardest part of the project you’re working on right now?

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