Mohamad Ballout: The Lebanese-American Who Turned Cloud Kitchens Into a SoftBank-Backed Global Empire
In January 2018, Mohamad Ballout and three co-founders launched a company with a premise that many in Dubai's restaurant industry considered absurd: instead of...
Khalid Al Ameri: The Emirati Who Turned Storytelling Into a Stanford-Backed Global Business
When Khalid Al Ameri first began posting videos on Facebook from his Abu Dhabi apartment in 2014, the concept of an Emirati man narrating...
Dr. Sara Al Madani: The Emirati Entrepreneur Who Started at 15 and Never Stopped Building
Most entrepreneurs point to a university project, a failed job, or a late-night idea as the origin of their first business. Dr. Sara Al...
Abdulmajeed Alsukhan: How a Saudi Central Bank Alumnus Built the Kingdom’s First Fintech Unicorn
There is a particular irony in the fact that Abdulmajeed Alsukhan — the man who disrupted Saudi Arabia's financial sector with a new generation...
Hosam Arab: The Man Who Built the Middle East’s Most Valuable Fintech from a Dubai Apartment
In 2019, Hosam Arab was sitting in a modest Dubai apartment with a whiteboard, a co-founder, and a single conviction: that the GCC's hundreds...
