jadopado Looking back on JadoPado It's been a little over three years since we exited and subsequently folded JadoPado into Noon. I recently did a longish Twitter thread looking back on what once was. This is a post for posterity
banking Banking and Telco in the UAE is Broken A recent Twitter thread on the state of banking and telco in the UAE turned into a post for posterity
Diving into Careem's Cap Table After hearing that Careem's wild exit to Uber was around the corner, I dived into some research and spent a bit of time trying to model Careem's cap table
opinion Hiding the Truth, Muting Discussion & Squashing Discourse Incidents from Fetchr, BitOasis and Dubai Eye, and why they should encourage us towards open and honest discussion about the challenges that our businesses face
lunatap Introducing Lunatap We’re excited to announce that we’ve been working on a small side project for a few months called Lunatap, that recently got hunted on Product Hunt
bitpado An Update on BitPado Earlier this year we announced that we were ambitiously embarking on building BitPado, a crypto exchange and OTC (over-the-counter) play…
esanjo Electronically Ours With the post-acquisition drama of noon finally in our rear view mirror, it feels like it’s time to reflect briefly and outline what we’re doing next
research What's hiding behind noon's beta? A deep dive into into noon.com's beta including an early look at their upcoming product
e-commerce The Future of Majid Al Futtaim Earlier this summer I put together a hypothetical deck on the future of Majid Al Futtaim, one of the Middle East's largest mall, retail and leisure operators
jadopado The JadoPado Experiment is at an End We've been acquired. The JadoPado Experiment is at an end.
jadopado JadoPado raises $1 billion to build world’s largest mall A quantum leap to the future of shopping. The JadoPado Mall will transform your shopping experience. The biggest, the best, the fastest.
research Evidence that Amazon's buyout of Souq is almost done A look at evidence that Amazon is in the process of closing its buyout of Souq.com
jadopado Product Updates and Building Incredible Experiences A bunch of exciting updates and new features including JadoPado Joy, Seller Performance, iOS and Android Apps as well as JadoPado in Arabic!
jadopado How We’re Building JadoPado The values and policies (or lack there of) that we’re focused on as we build JadoPado as an organisation. Unlimited leave, remote work and more.
research Noon.com: Unpacking Alabbar's Digital Ambitions A research note on Noon.com, unpacking Mohammed Alabbar's ambitions for the Middle East's digital space
research A Deep Dive Into Saudi Culture Studio D shares their data from an epic deep dive into Saudi culture
jadopado Working to Live vs Living to Work Flexibility can pave the way towards fulfilling, deep work where we work to live rather than live to work
jadopado The $4 Million Deck An unedited version of the deck that we used to raise our $4 million Series A
research Three Years of Aramex E-Commerce Data Every year Iyad Kamal, the COO of Aramex gets onto stage at Arabnet Digital Summit and dives into e-commerce data for the Middle East, based on what they're seeing
research What is Souq Worth? An attempt at figuring out what Souq.com is worth by digging through Naspers' publicly available reports and financials
jadopado Booster Engine Cut Off Announcing our Series A and providing advice that you didn’t really ask for
payments The 2016 Edition: Online Payments in the UAE The definitive guide to online payments in the UAE
