The AI Best Business Show: Recent Episodes

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The AI Best Business Show is a show where we host founders and investors to talk about the startup eco-system in the MENA & GCC region

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In this episode, I speak with Mo Aziz founder of www.plutocard.io

  1. The Fintech landscape in the region
  2. What is Pluto and how does it work.
  3. Gaps Mo sees in the market
  4. Finding the first 10 customers
  5. Getting Into YC and advice for founders(https://www.ycombinator.com/)
  6. Raising money from investors outside of the Middle East
  7. Scout investing for Sahil (https://twitter.com/shl) founder of Gumroad 8.The creator's economy
  8. Bitcoin

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This is an episode with Ismail Bargach(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismail-bargach/) where we discuss the following:

  1. His previous startups before Wafr
  2. What is Wafr?(https://www.wafr.co/)
  3. How he met his co-founder
  4. What skills do you need as a startup founder
  5. Online payments in the MENA region
  6. How to raise funding for startups
  7. What to expect from investors?
  8. Startup potentials in the MENA region.

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In this episode, I host Sean Frank (https://twitter.com/SeanEcom) 

  1. What is Ridge?
  2. Bootstarped vs Funding?
  3. What metrics should E-comm brand watch for?
  4. How to start in E-commerce?
  5. Importance of product and Distribution
  6. Amazon vs Shopify
  7. Fast vs Bolt
  8. How hard is it to Run an E-commerce brand(It's as hard as running Tesla)
  9. Why Ridge will be bought by Yeti https://www.yeti.com/

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Discussion with Stephen Olmon founder of several ventures talks about Buying / Building 50 Companies by 2050 where we discuss the following: 1. Why is he planning on starting 50 companies by 2050 2. what is https://www.severalventures.com/ 3. how he deals with hiring an operator? 4. how he started from $0 5. Holdco vs rollup debates 6. His day-to-day involvement

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A talk with Mahmoud Fouad Co-Founder & CEO at Kemitt where we speak about: 1. Who is Mahmoud Fouad (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfouads/)? 2. A Talk about Kemitt (https://kemitt.com/en-eg/) 3. Why take a risk as a startup founder? 4. How do you trust and find your co-founders. 5. How do you get investment for your startup 6. Which founders/startups will Mahmoud invest in.(http://www.gameball.co/,https://tamara.co/en/index.html,https://www.maxab.io/)

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A discussion with Riyad Abou Jaoudeh(https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyad/) A partner MEVP (https://www.mevp.com/) about venture capital, the startup world, and many other interesting topics.

We talk about: 1. Who is Riyad and his start at Careem 2. What does it mean to be a Venture Capitalist 3. What is MEVP 4. Criteria to invest in startups 5. Trends in the MENA and GCC region 6. Getting acquired vs getting listed 7.Web3 and Crypto in the region

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A discussion about Web3, Crypto Currency, NFTs, and their usage. Resources:

1.https://www.milkroad.com/p/peter-thiel-calls-warren-buffett-sociopathic-grandpa-omaha

2.https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

3.https://mint.intuit.com/blog/investments/pros-and-cons-of-bitcoin/

4.https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/

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A discussion about the public market, inflation, venture capital, and how founders should act in an economic downturn. Resources used: 1.https://drive.google.com/file/d/11DgKmvIDmNY8FWitIpKIsNTbiEYuOJgU/view 2.https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1522745450347958272?t=S9M2suLCKrqx78n0kGd34Q&s=08 3.https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/1527238287471292417/photo/1