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Loulou Khazen Baz, an entrepreneur, investor and mother based in Dubai draws on her professional and personal experiences over her two-decade career to discuss business, leadership, startups and technology from a Middle Eastern lens. To learn more, visit the show's website: www.conversationswithloulou.com and you can follow Loulou on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram @louloukhazen
17 / 03 / 2022
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E31: Omran Sharaf on reaching Mars and beyond
We talk to Omran Sharaf, Project Director of the Emirates Mars Mission about his experience in leading one of the most significant projects the UAE has undertaken. Omran and his team were in charge of developing, building and launching the -Hope Probe-, an unmanned spacecraft sent to study the Martian atmosphere. Omran recalls the events of the night of November 20th 2013, as he juggled between the launch of DubaiSat 2, an earth observation satellite, and a call from the UAE government that would ultimately change his life. We discuss what it takes to deliver such a project, why we should study Mars and the impact that this mission will have on the UAE, the region and the world for generations to come. |
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29 / 12 / 2021
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#30 Unifonic's Jonathan Labin on sabbaticals, scale-ups and the metaverse
We talk to Jonathan Labin about his move from a high powered career at Viacom and Facebook to taking a 1 year sabbatical and then shifting gears to startups. In 2020, Jonathan joined Unifonic, a Saudi born startup co-founded by brothers Ahmed and Hassan Hamdan. In his role, Jonathan was responsible of taking the company to the next level, and in 2021, Unifonic raised a whopping US$125 Million to scale. We discuss startups versus scale-ups, cultural, technical and organizational debt and we wrap up with Jonathan-s 2022 tech trends including the metaverse! |
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29 / 12 / 2021
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E30: Unifonic's Jonathan Labin on sabbaticals, scale-ups and the metaverse
We talk to Jonathan Labin about his move from a high powered career at Viacom and Facebook to taking a 1 year sabbatical and then shifting gears to startups. In 2020, Jonathan joined Unifonic, a Saudi born startup co-founded by brothers Ahmed and Hassan Hamdan. In his role, Jonathan was responsible of taking the company to the next level, and in 2021, Unifonic raised a whopping US$125 Million to scale. We discuss startups versus scale-ups, cultural, technical and organizational debt and we wrap up with Jonathan-s 2022 tech trends including the metaverse! |
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20 / 12 / 2021
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#29 CoinMENA's Talal Tabbaa on crypto's disruptive powers, ICOs and why Bitcoin has won!
Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder - Chairman of CoinMENA, a crypto business that was founded by Talal and his Co-Founders-Dina Sam-an-and-Yazan Barghuthi-- and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain - that aims to provide crypto based financial services such as borrowing, lending, investing and more. He joins us to discuss the business of crypto exchanges and why we need them particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region. A thought provoking and energy filled conversation about ICOs, technology infrastructure inversion, the utility of money, the emergence of private currencies, Bitcoin at $600,000 and more. |
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20 / 12 / 2021
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E29: CoinMENA's Talal Tabbaa on crypto's disruptive powers, ICOs and why Bitcoin has won!
Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder - Chairman of CoinMENA, a crypto business that was founded by Talal and his Co-Founders-Dina Sam-an-and-Yazan Barghuthi-- and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain - that aims to provide crypto based financial services such as borrowing, lending, investing and more. He joins us to discuss the business of crypto exchanges and why we need them particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region. A thought provoking and energy filled conversation about ICOs, technology infrastructure inversion, the utility of money, the emergence of private currencies, Bitcoin at $600,000 and more. |
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15 / 11 / 2021
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#28 TikTok's Shant Oknayan on leadership and building a winning culture
Shant Oknayan is the Head of Global Business Solutions at ByteDance (TikTok) across Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joins us to discuss his role in building the regional footprint of one of the fastest growing startups globally. In this episode we zoom in on challenges of leading in a pandemic and we focus on culture. We discuss the evolution of our digital lives and we close with a deeply personal story from Shant and we learn about its impact on his leadership style. |
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15 / 11 / 2021
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E28: TikTok's Shant Oknayan on leadership and building a winning culture
Shant Oknayan is the Head of Global Business Solutions at ByteDance (TikTok) across Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joins us to discuss his role in building the regional footprint of one of the fastest growing startups globally. In this episode we zoom in on challenges of leading in a pandemic and we focus on culture. We discuss the evolution of our digital lives and we close with a deeply personal story from Shant and we learn about its impact on his leadership style. |
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28 / 10 / 2021
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#27 Kitopi's Mohamad Ballout on how to build a unicorn
Mohamad Ballout, a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of-Kitopi, a cloud kitchen startup,-has recently joined the exclusive and extremely coveted -unicorn club-, with Kitopi-s valuation topping US$ 1 Billion. He joins Loulou to discuss building a global business out of the UAE, the challenges he faces as he scales Kitopi beyond the UAE, the complexity of running a -food platform- and shares his views on fundraising and managing the Board of Directors effectively. |
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28 / 10 / 2021
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E27: Kitopi's Mohamad Ballout on how to build a unicorn
Mohamad Ballout, a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of-Kitopi, a cloud kitchen startup,-has recently joined the exclusive and extremely coveted -unicorn club-, with Kitopi-s valuation topping US$ 1 Billion. He joins Loulou to discuss building a global business out of the UAE, the challenges he faces as he scales Kitopi beyond the UAE, the complexity of running a -food platform- and shares his views on fundraising and managing the Board of Directors effectively. |
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12 / 10 / 2021
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#26 Nadine Mezher, Co-Founder of Sarwa on passive investing and building a fintech company
Nadine Mezher, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Sarwa, and her 2 partners Mark Chahwan and Jad Sayegh want to bring smart investing, trading and saving to the Middle East. In 2017 they launched Sarwa.co, a venture backed fintech startup with US$25M in funding to date. Sarwa is democratizing investing for the young professionals and as a result has witnessed tremendous growth. We talk to Nadine about investing, her own entrepreneurial journey and advice for budding entrepreneurs about having co-founders and fundraising. For more on Nadine and Sarwa visit: www.Conversationswithloulou.com |
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Loulou Khazen Baz, an entrepreneur, investor and mother based in Dubai draws on her professional and personal experiences over her two-decade career to discuss business, leadership, startups and technology from a Middle Eastern lens. To learn more, visit the show's website: www.conversationswithloulou.com and you can follow Loulou on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram @louloukhazen
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17 / 03 / 2022
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E31: Omran Sharaf on reaching Mars and beyond
We talk to Omran Sharaf, Project Director of the Emirates Mars Mission about his experience in leading one of the most significant projects the UAE has undertaken. Omran and his team were in charge of developing, building and launching the -Hope Probe-, an unmanned spacecraft sent to study the Martian atmosphere. Omran recalls the events of the night of November 20th 2013, as he juggled between the launch of DubaiSat 2, an earth observation satellite, and a call from the UAE government that would ultimately change his life. We discuss what it takes to deliver such a project, why we should study Mars and the impact that this mission will have on the UAE, the region and the world for generations to come. |
00:52:32 |
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29 / 12 / 2021
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#30 Unifonic's Jonathan Labin on sabbaticals, scale-ups and the metaverse
We talk to Jonathan Labin about his move from a high powered career at Viacom and Facebook to taking a 1 year sabbatical and then shifting gears to startups. In 2020, Jonathan joined Unifonic, a Saudi born startup co-founded by brothers Ahmed and Hassan Hamdan. In his role, Jonathan was responsible of taking the company to the next level, and in 2021, Unifonic raised a whopping US$125 Million to scale. We discuss startups versus scale-ups, cultural, technical and organizational debt and we wrap up with Jonathan-s 2022 tech trends including the metaverse! |
00:45:20 |
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29 / 12 / 2021
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E30: Unifonic's Jonathan Labin on sabbaticals, scale-ups and the metaverse
We talk to Jonathan Labin about his move from a high powered career at Viacom and Facebook to taking a 1 year sabbatical and then shifting gears to startups. In 2020, Jonathan joined Unifonic, a Saudi born startup co-founded by brothers Ahmed and Hassan Hamdan. In his role, Jonathan was responsible of taking the company to the next level, and in 2021, Unifonic raised a whopping US$125 Million to scale. We discuss startups versus scale-ups, cultural, technical and organizational debt and we wrap up with Jonathan-s 2022 tech trends including the metaverse! |
00:45:20 |
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20 / 12 / 2021
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#29 CoinMENA's Talal Tabbaa on crypto's disruptive powers, ICOs and why Bitcoin has won!
Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder - Chairman of CoinMENA, a crypto business that was founded by Talal and his Co-Founders-Dina Sam-an-and-Yazan Barghuthi-- and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain - that aims to provide crypto based financial services such as borrowing, lending, investing and more. He joins us to discuss the business of crypto exchanges and why we need them particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region. A thought provoking and energy filled conversation about ICOs, technology infrastructure inversion, the utility of money, the emergence of private currencies, Bitcoin at $600,000 and more. |
00:53:37 |
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20 / 12 / 2021
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E29: CoinMENA's Talal Tabbaa on crypto's disruptive powers, ICOs and why Bitcoin has won!
Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder - Chairman of CoinMENA, a crypto business that was founded by Talal and his Co-Founders-Dina Sam-an-and-Yazan Barghuthi-- and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain - that aims to provide crypto based financial services such as borrowing, lending, investing and more. He joins us to discuss the business of crypto exchanges and why we need them particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region. A thought provoking and energy filled conversation about ICOs, technology infrastructure inversion, the utility of money, the emergence of private currencies, Bitcoin at $600,000 and more. |
00:53:37 |
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15 / 11 / 2021
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#28 TikTok's Shant Oknayan on leadership and building a winning culture
Shant Oknayan is the Head of Global Business Solutions at ByteDance (TikTok) across Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joins us to discuss his role in building the regional footprint of one of the fastest growing startups globally. In this episode we zoom in on challenges of leading in a pandemic and we focus on culture. We discuss the evolution of our digital lives and we close with a deeply personal story from Shant and we learn about its impact on his leadership style. |
00:49:44 |
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15 / 11 / 2021
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E28: TikTok's Shant Oknayan on leadership and building a winning culture
Shant Oknayan is the Head of Global Business Solutions at ByteDance (TikTok) across Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joins us to discuss his role in building the regional footprint of one of the fastest growing startups globally. In this episode we zoom in on challenges of leading in a pandemic and we focus on culture. We discuss the evolution of our digital lives and we close with a deeply personal story from Shant and we learn about its impact on his leadership style. |
00:49:44 |
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28 / 10 / 2021
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#27 Kitopi's Mohamad Ballout on how to build a unicorn
Mohamad Ballout, a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of-Kitopi, a cloud kitchen startup,-has recently joined the exclusive and extremely coveted -unicorn club-, with Kitopi-s valuation topping US$ 1 Billion. He joins Loulou to discuss building a global business out of the UAE, the challenges he faces as he scales Kitopi beyond the UAE, the complexity of running a -food platform- and shares his views on fundraising and managing the Board of Directors effectively. |
00:39:29 |
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28 / 10 / 2021
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E27: Kitopi's Mohamad Ballout on how to build a unicorn
Mohamad Ballout, a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of-Kitopi, a cloud kitchen startup,-has recently joined the exclusive and extremely coveted -unicorn club-, with Kitopi-s valuation topping US$ 1 Billion. He joins Loulou to discuss building a global business out of the UAE, the challenges he faces as he scales Kitopi beyond the UAE, the complexity of running a -food platform- and shares his views on fundraising and managing the Board of Directors effectively. |
00:39:29 |
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12 / 10 / 2021
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#26 Nadine Mezher, Co-Founder of Sarwa on passive investing and building a fintech company
Nadine Mezher, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Sarwa, and her 2 partners Mark Chahwan and Jad Sayegh want to bring smart investing, trading and saving to the Middle East. In 2017 they launched Sarwa.co, a venture backed fintech startup with US$25M in funding to date. Sarwa is democratizing investing for the young professionals and as a result has witnessed tremendous growth. We talk to Nadine about investing, her own entrepreneurial journey and advice for budding entrepreneurs about having co-founders and fundraising. For more on Nadine and Sarwa visit: www.Conversationswithloulou.com |
00:43:23 |
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