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Sequoia’s Maguire Eyes Intern, Kuwait Offloads, Sawiris Backs Morocco EVs

HEADLINES:♦ Saudi’s Jahez Acquires 76% of Qatari Snoonu from Founder Hamad Al-Hajri in $245M Deal♦ Egypt’s Sawiris to Invest $100M in Morocco’s Electric Motorbike Market♦ Backlash Grows as VC Shaun Maguire Reignites Controversy Days After Apology♦ Kuwait’s $1 Trillion Wealth Fund ... Show More

28m 39s

Yesterday

Tech Founders vs Shaun Maguire, Attias IPO Plans, Starlink Launches in Qatar

HEADLINES:♦ Middle Eastern Tech Founders Petition Forces Sequoia Partner Shaun Maguire to Apologize♦ Richard Attias Associates Considers IPO Amid Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Push♦ Dubai’s Xpanceo Raises $250M, Hits $1.35 Billion Valuation♦ Elon Musk’s Starlink Launches in Qatar, B ... Show More

26m 32s

Jul 8

Fadi Ghandour Petition, Dubai Chocolate Boom, Bahrain Stablecoin Rules

HEADLINES:♦ Fadi Ghandour Leads Petition Over Sequoia Partner’s Islamophobia Toward Zohran Mamdani♦ Dubai Duty Free Chocolates Smash Records with 2.5 Million Bars Sold in Six Months♦ UAE and World Economic Forum Launch Global Platform to Future-Proof AI Regulation♦ Bahrain Sets G ... Show More

22m 46s

Jul 2024

Co-founder on Palestine Cola's plans to expand and market reaction

Amid the war in Gaza, some communities, especially Arab ones, have decided to support the Palestinian cause by boycotting certain international brands. To fill the void, new business endeavours have taken hold, such as local Arab brands. Palestine Cola was born out of a desire to ... Show More

16m 28s

Oct 2024

E83: MENA venture capital crisis management and postmortems with Abdullah Mutawi

I sat down with Abdullah Mutawi, Partner and Head of Corporate at law firm Taylor Wessing and prolific angel investor as the Co-founder and Chairman of Dubai Angel Investors and Saudi Angel Investors and we unpack some of the challenges that startups founders and venture capital ... Show More

1h 26m

Jun 2024

Local Insights with Al Futtaim: Maximising Growth: AI-Driven Enterprises

Forbes Middle East’s Local Insights podcast in partnership with GBM explores AI- driven enterprises with Al Futtaim. To discuss the significant impact of AI on businesses across the Middle East are Himanshu Shrivastava, CTO of Al-Futtaim Group; Ossama El Samadoni, General Manager ... Show More

30m 46s

May 28

DreamWorks Co-Founder Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks AI Advertising

Jeffrey Katzenburg, Co-Founder of DreamWorks SKG discusses the future of AI video advertising alongside Creatify CEO and Co-Founder Yinan Na. They are both joined by Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick, Alix Steel and Scarlet Fu.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

13m 50s

Jul 2024

David Herro and Rajiv Jain: Should US Investors Renew Their Passports?

And we are thrilled to have with us today two fabulous investors in global equities. David Herro is here from Harris Associates. He is a longtime portfolio manager at Oakmark International and Oakmark International Small Cap. Rajiv Jain, to David’s left, is here from GQG Partners ... Show More

52m 44s

Dec 2019

Meet Sarwa Capital: the 20-year-old startup quietly building the infrastructure of consumer finance (Ep 5)

Hazem Moussa will forgive you if you’ve never heard of Sarwa Capital, because unless you’re a finance geek (like us), Sarwa is hardly a company whose name you’ll hear every day — even though there’s a reasonable chance Sarwa has been involved in your financial life one way or ano ... Show More

32m 24s

Jun 5

176: Beyond the Silk Roads: Middle Eastern Venture Investing - With Noor Sweid, Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures

Today we welcome one of the Middle East’s most successful angel investors and venture capitalists, listed in 'FORBES 100 Most Powerful Business Women 2025'. Noor Sweid explains her journey, from early career in management consultancy and relocating to Dubai, followed by growing a ... Show More

49m 6s

Jan 2025

Macro Monday: Chinese AI DeepSeek Scares U.S. Market ft. Andreas Steno & Mikkel Rosenvold

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32m 17s

Jun 2020

A peek behind the curtain: How Trella is bringing supply chains into the digital age (Ep 14)

Omar Hagrass, CEO of Trella On this week’s episode of Making It, we remotely sit down with Omar Hagrass, the CEO and co-founder of Trella, a digital trucking marketplace. The company’s application acts as a hub for shippers and carriers, eliminating the time-consuming and ineffic ... Show More

42m 32s

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