Abdul Khan
Founder and CEO
at Som Sleep
Abdul Khan is the Founder and CEO of Som Sleep, the leading sleep recovery product for athletes in the NFL, MLB, and NBA. He was most recently Founder & CEO of a consumer mobile startup, and Co-founder of the YOMYOMF Network, along with Fast Five director Justin Lin.
Launched in June 2012 as a partner of YouTube’s funded original channels initiative, YOMYOMF created original episodic content for digital distribution. Original programming partners included Danny Pudi (Community), Russo Brothers (Arrested Development, Captain America 2), Andy Fickman (Parental Guidance), and Vin Diesel & Tyrese (Car Talk).
Previously, he was Founder of Apoko Group, a digital branding company for athletes and celebrities, co-founded with NBA stars Baron Davis and Steve Nash. Prior to Apoko, Abdul was the Founding CEO of IBeatYou, the largest pro-athlete owned platform for branded user-generated contests, which reached 100M views and over 250,000 contests, powering campaigns for platforms such as Photobucket. He led IBeatYou through its sale to OVGuide in 2010.
Before his entrepreneurial journey, Abdul was a VC with Crosslink Capital, responsible for consumer Internet and digital media investments in companies including Pandora, Omniture, and Ancestry.com. He started his career as a technology investment banker at UBS, working on financings with companies such as Activision, Midway Games, and Acclaim Entertainment.
Content & Articles by Abdul Khan
Most Startup Content Is Invisible: Here’s How to Fix It
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Irina Maltseva, founder of Seen, to share how early-stage B2B SaaS companies get found on Google and inside LLMs. She has spent...
Setting Up A Founder-Led Organic LinkedIn Content Machine With Claude
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Jonathan Martinez, founder and CEO of GrowthPair, to share how founder-led LinkedIn content took his startup from zero to $1M in annual...
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos, to share...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...