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Aug 2022
55m 56s

Ep#11 - Ramy Assaf (Founder & CEO of Zbo...

Tarek Bayaa
About this episode

Ramy has spent the majority of his life being an entrepreneur and openly discusses the failures associated with each business that didn't succeed. Having spent some time as an investor at a VC, Ramy also had the benefit of studying business models and entrepreneurs from the outside before going back to start Zbooni.

Ramy has a knack for seeing the future early and talks about how he has used this to his advantage.

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