# We brought our Maker Studios veteran to VidSummit this week | GigaStar

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- Published at: 2026-09-30 12:00:00 UTC
- Updated at: 2026-10-06 17:22:55 UTC

## Author
Sarah McNabb

## Subject
GigaStar

## Content
From the desk of Hazem Dawani:Andy Faberlle and I are in Dallas this week for VidSummit, a 3-day event built around YouTube Creators and the teams behind their channels. We're here to meet them and talk about raising on GigaStar Market.Andy is our VP of Partnerships and helped build Maker Studios, which Disney bought for $950M+. More team stats worth knowing:Mohammed Asfour, our COO, built the largest YouTube partner network in the Middle East to 44M subscribers.On the markets side, Victor Glava, our CTO, and I built and sold OptionsCity. And Victor's next company, Cove Markets, was acquired by Robinhood. When you invest in GigaStar, this is the team you're backing: people who have built both sides of this market before, now building them into one company.🚀 Invest or increase your investment → wefunder.com/gigastarHere's to building the Creator Economy's capital markets together.HazemCEO & Co-founder, GigaStar