Yousef Abdelfattah is the Founder and CEO of TryNearby, an AI-powered platform connecting local businesses with nearby social media creators, and a Y Combinator S26 company.

Yousef co-founded FaZe Clan after starting as a 14-year-old YouTuber in 2010, spending 15 years in the creator economy growing his personal following past 10 million across platforms.

Yousef helped take FaZe Clan public on the Nasdaq as the first internet-native content company to IPO, reaching a valuation of $1 billion, giving him rare insight into the creator economy at scale.

Prior to TryNearby, Yousef also built experience as a co-founder at Clipping Exe, developing video clipping infrastructure that scaled to tens of thousands of videos monthly.

TryNearby has grown 37% month over month since November, serves over 120 paying restaurants across Southern California, and maintains over 90% customer retention, with more than half of new signups coming from owner referrals.