[14] Yassin applied to Harvard University in the United States at the age of 19, seeking a degree in aerospace engineering.

[11][12] While earning his degree at Harvard, Yassin co-founded a pay-it-forward registration service, and a social media search engine.

[16] In September 2014, he started working as a software developer for Venmo, a mobile payment service owned by PayPal, in New York.

[17][18] In 2016, Yassin quit his job at Venmo and decided to explore the world[17][11] with the intention of documenting his travels and experiences on video.

[11] After meeting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in early 2018, Nas Daily was upgraded to "show" status,[20] and by September 2018, his page had amassed over 8 million followers.

"[20] Yassin's collaborators included his then girlfriend Alyne Tamir, an American Israeli video-maker of Mormon and Jewish background,[23] and Agon Hare, a video blogger and musician from Poland.

[24] Due to the popularity of the videos with non-English speaking audiences, subtitles are provided in various languages, such as Urdu, Turkish, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Hindi, Chinese and Arabic.

[30][31] In response, Yassin posted a video in social media which showed Whang-Od affixing her thumbprint to a document as proof of the tattoo artist's consent.

The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) noted that posting a contract in social media does not equate to proof of compliance.

[32] The issue was resolved on October 24, 2021 after representatives from Nas Academy Philippines formally apologized to Whang-Od and the elders and members of the community in a customary process and meeting set up by the NCIP.