Mounia Meftah, co-founder & managing partner of Meftah, an artisanal company mixing the Moroccan tradition with modern technology, shares with us in this episode her unique life experiences from wanting to become an ambassador as a kid to slowly figuring out her passions.

In this episode, we touch on some of the early experiences of Mounia, from growing up in Agadir and Rabat to moving to France and coming back.

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Zakariya Jaiathe, the founder of Waanda, shares with us in this episode how it all started in Asfi, moving to Marrakech and then France to end up in Berlin, as a co-founder of one of the leading VR/AR startup Xibit.

Zakariya shares with us in this episode some of the things that helped him early on to break out of what we call autoroute or the highway of success. Also, the challenges and insights he gathered through working in France and Germany.

For the full episode and to discover more about his recent startup Maanda, make sure to tune in on the 23.04.23

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Zakaria Jaiathe, the founder of Waanda and Xibit shares with us in this episode how he spontaneously through believing in himself moved from Asfi to Berlin, going through France and refusing to accept the terms and conditions of the "Highway" we're all told to follow.

Starting as a child in a city that barely offers any activities for its children, filling his time with biographies and newspapers, discovering each time a new horizon and actively choosing his destiny.

Climbing the career ladder of SAP from France to Germany, Zakariya finds himself limited by the cooperation's atmosphere and decides after a hard-working season to move from a job to a business.

Xibit, his first baby, an augmented reality start-up cited in Forbs and many famous media, got tackled by COVID but taught him how to sort his priorities and orient himself as an entrepreneur.

To end up with his newborn  Waanda, a platform that connects Moroccan and African artisans with the European market.

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Mounia Meftah, co-founder & managing partner of Maison Meftah, an artisanal company mixing the Moroccan tradition with modern technology, shares with us in this episode her unique life experiences from wanting to become an ambassador as a kid to slowly figuring out her passions.

In this episode, we touch on some of the early experiences of Mounia, from growing up in Agadir and Rabat to moving to France and coming back to co-founding the artisanal company Maison Meftah.

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Simo Figuigui, born in Azilal, moves to Casablanca to discover more about the world and appreciate the value of information.

Years after his study in Casablanca and France, he lands in Asia and learns about Fintech which motivated him to start his own business and build Wind.

In this episode he shares with us his journey from Azilal to Casablanca to France and so on, landing in the Middle East and carrying his vision to build a business in his homeland Morocco.

As much as it is promising, we talked about the challenges Moroccan Entrepreneurs face, in fintech fields, discussed regulations matters, poor innovation, funding models then suggesting what could help to build a real ecosystem, where moroccan talents can strive and morocco drive change in Africa.

We talked about Chari.co, the episode with Ismail is here "Episode #28"

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Simo joins us in this episode with his unique story of how he grew up in the small village Azilal, moving to Casablanca, and slowly building a career from France to Asia to Middle East.

Enjoy these parts of the episode and get to know more about Simo and his story in the full episode coming on the 26.03.23

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Mounir Jamaï, the managing director of the french company NRCI, raised in Paris, decides to solve problems he encounters while visiting Morocco and other African countries.

Moving from a salary job, Mounir encounters many problems he manages to find solutions for with the help of talented Moroccan engineers.

In this episode, learn more about his journey and the insights he learned through it, especially about start-ups in Morocco and what changes our country needs to allow development and facilitate investment.

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Mounir Jamaï, the managing director of the french company NRCI, raised in Paris, decides to solve problems he encounters while visiting Morocco and other African countries.

Moving from a salary job, Mounir encounters many problems he manages to find solutions for with the help of talented Moroccan engineers.

In this episode, learn more about his journey and the insights he learned through it, especially about start-ups in Morocco and what changes our country needs to allow development and facilitate investment.

Stay tuned for the full episode on the 12.03.23

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Anouar, born in the Netherlands to Moroccan parents, shares his story with us, from being a student to promoting and starting his business.

Anouar shares with us some critical insights on how to test a product and the problem his company solved by creating situations where clients must actively show their readiness to buy the product instead of nonconsequential feedback.

After a long journey, connecting to Morocco, Anouar searches for Moroccan talents and stresses the necessity to know how to position in the aimed field, the importance of English and the challenges Morocco has for Entrepreneurs, the need to search for talents beyond the local area and the hopes of creating a Hub in Morocco where the Moroccan talents are not discovered but also enabled to reach their potential.

Are we ready to unlearn, take the step and create the change we want to see in Morocco? 

It is hard but possible.

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The hard thing about the hard things - Ben Horowitz.

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Anouar, an entrepreneur and a co-founder of a successful product research company, shares with us his story from being born to Moroccan parents in the Netherlands to reaching back to Morocco and embracing the Moroccan talents. 

In this extract, we cover most of the topics Anouar shared with us, from his upraising to finding the problem to solve, through academia and private businesses and all the mistakes or falsehoods one should avoid.

Stay tuned for the full episode on the 26.02.23

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