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Making It
A show about building a great business in the region. Each episode is a one-on-one sit-down with a CEO or founder at the top of their game, leaders across industries going through different stages of growth. We talk to them about the issues they face, the challenges they have to overcome, and what i...
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Special: Doing it differently | Marakez Exec Vice Chairman Dasha Badrawi
For the last few decades, Sahel has cemented its place as a go-to summer destination for many. Clear waters. Crisp weather. Buzzing nightlife.
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Building an innovative bank — and how to lead it — with Mashreq Group CEO Ahmed Abdelaal
After more than five years at Mashreq’s helm, Group CEO Ahmed Abdelaal is a well-known face in the regional banking industry and beyond. Ahmed has led...
How to fundraise with Actis Partner Hossam Abou Moussa
In 20 years of working in private equity, Hossam Abou Moussa has seen the makings of great businesses across industries in Egypt and other emerging ma...
Growing a diagnostics powerhouse with Integrated Diagnostics Holding CEO Hend El Sherbini
Hend El Sherbini took over her mother’s testing facility MK Lab in Egypt and rebranded it to Al Mokhtabar in 2004, with the intention of providing aff...
Playing moneyball with Arqam FC CEO Ali ElFakharany
Ali ElFakharany got hooked on sports data as a university student, and the blog he started to analyze the Egyptian Premier League blossomed into a com...
Transforming security with MagicCube co-founders Hisham Shawki and Nancy Zayed
Hisham Shawki and Nancy Zayed launched MagicCube in 2014 with the intention of eliminating the redundancy of hardware-based security currently used in...
Debating bricks or clicks with Majid Al Futtaim Properties CEO Ahmed Galal Ismail
With brick and mortar retail seeing declining growth in developed markets fueled by competition from e-commerce, Majid Al Futtaim tells a story that m...
Building a “people” business with Dr. Bahaa Alieldean, of the Alieldean Weshahi & Partners law firm
If your business sells time — yours or your team’s or both — then this week’s episode is for you.
Lawyering is perhaps the world’s second-oldes...
Kickstarting an industry with Fawry CEO Ashraf Sabry
The majority of Egypt’s population are unbanked and have no access to financial services. Thanks to fintech players like Fawry, this is changing quick...
Breaking baladi bread with Zooba CEO Chris Khalifa
Zooba sells taamiya, not falafel. When Chris Khalifa launched Zooba in 2012, the goal was to elevate Egyptian street food from cheap, delicious, every...
Trailer | Season 3
Making It is back for its third season. Making It is a show about building great businesses in Egypt. Each episode brings you a one-on-one sit-down wi...
A peek behind the curtain: How Trella is bringing supply chains into the digital age (Ep 14)
Omar Hagrass, CEO of Trella
On this week’s episode of Making It, we remotely sit down with Omar Hagrass, the CEO and co-founder of Trella, a dig...
Triple Digit Growth: How SAP created a digital safety net for businesses (Ep 13)
Hoda Mansour, Managing Director of SAP Egypt and Frontier Markets
Hoda Mansour was twice recognized by Forbes as one of the most influential bus...
Investing in digital disruption: How Algebra Ventures became synonymous with tech startups (Ep 12)
Algebra Ventures Managing Partners Tarek Assaad and Karim Hussein
From a background of senior positions at multinationals, Algebra Ventures Mana...
Where preparation meets opportunity: How TPay Mobile put Egypt on the Fintech map (Ep 11)
Sahar Salama, Founder and CEO of TPay Mobile
In a country with low banking penetration and high mobile adoption, Sahar Salama saw a business opp...
Amro Abouesh, CEO and Managing Director of Tanmeyah (Ep 10)
Having served as Executive Advisor for Microsofinance at Banque du Caire and then as head of the microfinance and SMEs division at the Bank of Alexand...
Surviving the end of a trend: going beyond cupcakes with NOLA (Ep 9)
Laila Sedky and Adel Sedky, Founder and CEO of NOLA
As Founder and CEO of one of the most recognizable brands in the confectionary business, Lai...
We don't need no education...in the classroom (Ep 8)
Mohamed El Kalla, CEO of Cairo for Investment and Real Estate (CIRA).
As the head of one of the largest private sector education operators, El...
Trailer | Season 2
Making It in the time of covid-19: Making It is back for its second season. Making It is a show about building great businesses in Egypt. Each episode...
Wrapping up the first season
As we wrap up our first season of Making It, Enterprise's very first podcast, we thought we'd reach out to everyone who lent us an ear these past few...
Bringing art to the masses: How TAM is trying to democratize the art scene (Ep 7)
TAM Gallery, formerly Arts Mart, started off as an online gallery that aimed to give new artists a chance to break into the Egyptian art world. Fast f...
Eat your heart out, Willy Wonka: How Edita beat out global household names to become the leading snack food producer in Egypt (Ep 6)
If you’ve ever been starving in Egypt without a kitchen anywhere in sight, it’s likely that you’ve tried a snack by Edita. Since its founding in 1996,...
Meet Sarwa Capital: the 20-year-old startup quietly building the infrastructure of consumer finance (Ep 5)
Hazem Moussa will forgive you if you’ve never heard of Sarwa Capital, because unless you’re a finance geek (like us), Sarwa is hardly a company whose...
One ring to rule them all: How the Azza Fahmy brand became a precious heirloom that was nourished into a global luxury powerhouse
After taking over the helm at Azza Fahmy back in 2006, Fatma Ghali, along with her sister Amina, built on the legacy of their mother, spearheading the...
The team player: How Karim Awad has grown EFG Hermes from a regional giant into a global player
Karim Awad started at EFG Hermes as an analyst and rose to become the head of EFG’s high-profile investment banking unit — a job he held until he was...
Mr and Mrs Claus: The couple behind the killer concierge app Elves
Seeing the rapid growth of digital assistants, Abeer El Sisi and Karim El Sahy co-founded Elves in 2016, along with Ahmed Kassem. They looked at the d...
Back from the brink: How Gourmet Egypt survived the float of the EGP
After a ten-year run leading a high-end retailer of imported food in Egypt, Jalal Abu Gazaleh nearly fell off a cliff when the devaluation of the EGP...
Making It: The Introduction
An introduction to Making It, by one of our hosts Patrick, Enterprise's editor-in-chief and co-founder.
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Trailer | Season 1
Introducing Enterprise's first podcast series that tackles great businesses in Egypt and the stories behind them, straight from the founders and CEOs...