Maté Conversations: Recent Episodes
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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 inspire fellow entrepreneurs in embracing their journeys.
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
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
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
Ross Veitch is the Co-founder and CEO at Wego, and the longest active entrepreneur in MENA, In this conversation Ross tells us all about his journey in building Wego back in 2005 and walks us through how they adapted to all the changes in the travel industry
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
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
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
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
Starting with building Namshi and now on to Tabby, Hossam shares his long journey in the e-commerce industry to tap into merchants and consumers experiences
As a startup building SaaS what is the strategy followed to compete with large corporations and how Penny worked on acquire customers coming out of the region
Jad Sayegh, Cofounroboadvider and CTO at Sarwa talks about their journey in building the first dery 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
On this episode we have both co-founders of Kitopi, a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to expand their delivery reach
In this conversation Ray Dargham sits with Helen Chen, Co-founder & 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
Omar Kassim digs deep into his new venture Nomod, and tells us all about his experience with JadoPado which got aqcuired by noon, Omar also shared his view on financial ventures in the MENA region and tapped into the evolution of talent and capital from the start of his entrepreneurial journey till today