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Maté Conversations is a series of 1:1 conversations hosted by Ray Dargham, Co-founder & CEO at Step, with successful startup founders in emerging markets. It is a deep dive on product, growth, and operations and into founders incidents and experiences to


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    How to program the right company culture and build a world class team at scale

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2021


    In a conversation with ahmed hamdan founder and ceo of unifonic Ray dargham taps into how to program the right company culture and build a world class team at scale

    BitOasis early riders of the Crypto space in MENA

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2021


    Ola doudin and Ray dargham discuss the early stages of crypto adoption in the mena region and how bitoasis dealt with regulators and customers needs to be where it is today

    Longest active entrepreneur in MENA dealing with Covid

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021


    Ross Veitch the longest active entrepreneur in MENA ,and cofounder of Wego shares his journey on building Wego back in 2005 and walks us through how they adapted to all the changes in the travel industry

    Nomod, JadoPado, noon and more with Omar Kassim

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021


    Omar Kassim digs deep into his new venture Nomod and tells us all about Jadopado's aqcuisition by noon

    Scaling As An Ecommerce Business With Hosam Arab, Tabby

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    Starting with building namshi and now on to tabby hossam shares his long journey in the ecommerce industry to tap into merchants and consumers experiences

    Content Creation And Monetization With Kaan Kayabli Onedio

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    Few media platforms cracked the monetization model, onedio is one of the platforms that did with a relatively low cost, in this episode, kaan shares the ideal strategy that worked for them to generate content build a community and monetize

    Yallacompares Jon Richards On Rebranding

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    From compareitforme to yallacompare jon discusses what it took to make the switch and how they were able to maintain the brand image and even boost it by making smart and calculated marketing tricks

    The Middle Easts First Roboadvisery Platform Jad Sayegh, Sarwa

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    Jad sayegh, cofounder and cto at sarwa talks about their journey in building the first roboadvidery platform in the middle east region after witnessing the increased interest in the market for investing and making money on the long run without the need to really work hard for it we talked about the journey of sarwa, and what it took to build the product

    Real Estate Made Easy With Helen Chen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    In this conversation Ray Dargham sits with Helen Chen cofounder and ceo of Nomad Homes to walk us through her journey of moving from Silicon Valley to Dubai to pursue her passion in Real Estate after being an investor with goldman Sachs, China Investment Corporation and Blackstone

    Cloud Kitchen Solving Inefficiencies With Kitopi

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    On this episode we have both cofounders of kitopi, a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to expand their delivery reach mo ballout and sam darkan share their journey as a startup and how they brought kitopi to becoming the aggregator it is today

    Building SaaS Companies In The Mena Region With Iyad Aldalooj, Penny Software

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    As a startup building saas whats the strategy followed to compete with large corporations and how penny worked on acquire customers coming out of the region

    Building An Engineering Powerhouse In Mena With Elie Habib, Anghami

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    Building your own product in a changing environment is difficult and can cost you a fortune, in this conversation elie shares his journey about how he built anghami, to become the first legal music streaming platform and digital distribution company in the arab world

    Mumzworld Serving Niche Markets

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021


    Mona ataya one of the most recognizable female entrepreneurs in the mena region shares her journey on starting an ecommerce business is the very early days of online shopping and explains how she served a niche market while keeping up with the fast paced change in consumers behaviors

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