E87: What It Takes to Win Big (in MENA): Insights from a $35B Founder and Global Investor

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Jayesh Patel (Wio Bank): The Playbook Behind the UAE's Fastest-Growing Digital Bank

Jayesh Patel is the CEO of Wio Bank, the digital bank that in less than four years has become the account 1 in 3 new UAE businesses choose and the fastest way to see how AI, ownership and the Gulf economy are actually changing on the ground. Before Wio, Jay built Liv. at Emirates ...  Show more

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Ahmad AlZaini on Building a $13B Restaurant Operating System From Al Khobar

Is the software business dying? Loulou sits down with Ahmad AlZaini, co-founder and CEO of Foodics, at the 11-year mark of the company for the operator's read on the biggest question in tech this year: what happens to software when AI agents replace the human at the login screen. ...  Show more

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