The Ones to Watch
Bay Area Restaurant Owner
Jun 3, 2026·By: Mbaire
Some people measure life by milestones of success. Billy Alabsi measures it by the willingness to keep moving. After high school in Yemen, he came to America searching for opportunity and the chance to build a better life. Since then, his journey has been shaped by reinvention: building businesses, losing everything, rebuilding, and finding the strength to begin again more than once. Through uncertainty, loss, and chapters that might have left others defeated, Billy has held onto one conviction: difficult seasons do not last forever. Today, in San Francisco, he is building once again, holding tightly to optimism, purpose, and the belief that life can be rebuilt.
