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Aug 2021
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About this episode
Today’s episode is with Amir Allam, the CEO and Founder of Elmenus, a food discovery platform with over 12,000 restaurants and over 1.5 Million monthly users. Their mission is to share the best dishes in each city in the region by combining a social, visual and personalized experience to help connect restaurants with the diners.

Amir is an ex internationally ranked squash player, computer science grad, and he started Elmenus out of a love of food, technology and curiosity in building impactful products. He founded Elmenus in 2011 and grew it to a series C company with millions of users in Egypt.

We talk about:

✅ Why he started Elmenus
✅ The landscape of the food and dining ecosystem in the MENA region
✅ How his priorities shifted within each stage of the company
✅ How he engages with customers and gets feedback for his product roadmap
✅ The biggest moment of adversity he and his team faced and how the pandemic became an opportunity

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