"Build to last – Don't build to exit" / Hussein Wehbi on UNFLTRD with Muhammad Chbib
🚀 UNFLTRD with Muhammad Chbib – Hussein Wehbi – Episode 2
Silicon Valley startups get blank-cheque funding – MENA founders fight for scraps.
We’re tired of it – and so is this episode's guest, Hussein Wehbi – a seasoned top executive who has been navigating between Corporate C-Level roles in the logistics and supply-chain industry and hands-on, sleeves-up startup founder roles.
What we hit head-on
– Why the region still lacks global consumer brands – and the playbook to change that
– Funding friction: family offices, clueless due-diligence consultants, and how founders can break the chokehold
– The real cost of “bootstrapping” in the GCC – and smarter capital strategies
– Mindset shift: stop chasing 5-year exits, start building 100-year companies
– Governments as catalysts: every Arab country needs a Ministry of Entrepreneurship – literally yesterday
– Public-private partnerships that actually work (Aramex, Rabbit, more)
– Turning brain drain into brain gain – attracting the Arab diaspora back home
Three UNFLTRD takeaways:
– Profitability at scale beats vanity valuations.
– Impact matters – build companies people will remember in 100 years.
– Talent + capital + regulation = the next wave of MENA giants.
🔔 Subscribe, share, and join the unfiltered debate – Arabia’s next century starts here.
#logistics #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPodcast #FutureTech #lastmile #Innovation #DigitalSovereignty #MiddleEast #Leadership #uae #ksa #saudi #egypt #startup #scaleup #technology #givefirst #ai #mena
🚀 UNFLTRD with Muhammad Chbib – Hussein Wehbi – Episode 2
Silicon Valley startups get blank-cheque funding – MENA founders fight for scraps.
We’re tired of it – and so is this episode's guest, Hussein Wehbi – a seasoned top executive who has been navigating between Corporate C-Level roles in the logistics and supply-chain industry and hands-on, sleeves-up startup founder roles.
What we hit head-on
– Why the region still lacks global consumer brands – and the playbook to change that
– Funding friction: family offices, clueless due-diligence consultants, and how founders can break the chokehold
– The real cost of “bootstrapping” in the GCC – and smarter capital strategies
– Mindset shift: stop chasing 5-year exits, start building 100-year companies
– Governments as catalysts: every Arab country needs a Ministry of Entrepreneurship – literally yesterday
– Public-private partnerships that actually work (Aramex, Rabbit, more)
– Turning brain drain into brain gain – attracting the Arab diaspora back home
Three UNFLTRD takeaways:
– Profitability at scale beats vanity valuations.
– Impact matters – build companies people will remember in 100 years.
– Talent + capital + regulation = the next wave of MENA giants.
🔔 Subscribe, share, and join the unfiltered debate – Arabia’s next century starts here.
#logistics #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPodcast #FutureTech #lastmile #Innovation #DigitalSovereignty #MiddleEast #Leadership #uae #ksa #saudi #egypt #startup #scaleup #technology #givefirst #ai #mena