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Muhammad Alagil
Muhammad Alagil
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Muhammed Alagil, Chairman of Jarir Investment in Saudi Arabia, discusses how he and his brothers started the business with a small office supply store in 1979.Duration: 02:14
Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani
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Mohammed Al Barwani, founder of the Oman-based diversified group MB Holding Company, shares his advice to young entrepreneurs starting a business, including the need for simplicity.Duration: 03:24
Robert Brozin
Robert Brozin
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Robert Brozin, the co-Founder of Nando’s, a South African-based restaurant chain specializing in Portuguese food, discusses how he started the business with Fernando Duarte, after tiring of being an auditor and while working in his father’s electronics business.Duration: 04:24
Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour
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Fadi Ghandour, founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, discusses how he entered the courier industry as an "accidental entrepreneur."Duration: 12:17
Pedro Gómez
Pedro Gómez
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Pedro Gómez, who founded the construction company Pedro Gómez y Cia in Colombia in 1968, discusses how he built the first shopping mall in Bogotá by visiting foreign projects and contacting an old friend to secure finance.Duration: 09:46
Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim
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Mo Ibrahim, the founder of the African telecommunications company Celtel and later a major corporate philanthropist, describes his decisions to leave the large telecommunications company British Telecom and establish a consultancy called MSI in 1989, and then launch Celtel a decade later aimed at building a cell phone network in Africa.Duration: 10:08
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, relates how gender bias set her on a path to invest in industrial enzymes and the foundation of Biocon in 1978.Duration: 05:46
Leonor Melo de Velasco
Leonor Melo de Velasco
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Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how a devastating earthquake in the city of Popayán led her to leave her career as a dentist, and establish a NGO focused on providing microfinance, primarily for women.Duration: 05:13
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Sunil Bharti Mittal
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Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, discusses entering the telecommunications industry by creating India’s first pushbutton phones in the early 1980s as a result of India banning the import of generators – his previous business. In 1992, he bid for a mobile phone license and after being challenged in High Court, launched India’s first mobile phone in 1995.Duration: 04:27
Eva Muraya
Eva Muraya
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Eva Muraya describes the challenges she faced launching Kenya-based Brand Strategy and Design, an advertising and marketing start-up, emphasizing the importance of patience amidst on-going cash flow problems.Duration: 02:06
Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy
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Narayana Murthy, who co-founded the India-based software company Infosys in 1981, discusses how he founded the firm with six other like-minded software professionals who pooled their capitalDuration: 06:27