🚀 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.

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