About Maryam Yusuf & Mohammad Al Attar

Maryam Yusuf is a Bahraini national, who has lived most of her life here in the UAE. At the age of 22, she decided to start a digital marketing company, which she named Pixel Digital Marketing. She has also  Co-founded another company along with her partner Mohammed Al Attar, called Flashback Photo & Video Digitizing Services, which is a digitizing service company for print photos and camera recorded videos.

Mohammad Al Attar is a UAE National and a member of the Young Arab Leaders organization (YAL). Mohammad holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the American University in Dubai and received his Master of Science in Innovation & Change Management from the Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University in Dubai. He has been working with Emirates Airline as a Country Manager for more than 7 years.

About this episode

In this episode, we talk to Maryam and Mohammad about their different journeys. How with time, they decided to join forces and start a wonderful company together, with the aim of bringing and sharing joy with people by helping them secure their treasured memories. 

Listen as we discuss challenges, ideas, motivation, and much more with the two bright and successful entrepreneurs.

Quotes

 “Primarily I noticed that there was a gap in the market and you know, digital at that time was something that was, it was still in its infant stage so I noticed that there was definitely a gap in the market, I think I noticed that there was an opportunity and I took it basically”. - Maryam

 “It would be great for us to not just help families in terms of digitizing their memories but to make it easier for them to share their memories as well and to preserve them forever because a lot of the time with the photos and the videos, both of them degrade over time”. Maryam

 “Flashback is about helping families preserve their memories. At the end of the day that is the main thing that we love to do”. - Maryam 

“One thing that I learnt, as long as you know yourself, you know your work, your industry, people won’t pay attention to your age”. - Maryam

“If I could go back in time and do something, I would have done it earlier. If you got a good idea, and you believe in it, you got the feedback, just do it.” Mohammad

The most important thing in a partnership is understanding their strength, what they can bring to the table and how you can kind of compliment each other”. - Maryam

“Trust is the biggest thing, I think. It is literally the foundation of any relationship, if you can’t trust each other, everything gets cast into the dark”. - Mohammad

Useful Links

Websites: https://www.flashbackdxb.com/ http://pixeldubai.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flashback.dxb/ https://www.instagram.com/pixeldubai/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pixeldubai/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixeldubai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryamyusuf/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-alattar/ 

Flashback Contact number: +971 58 585 3893

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