Guest: Mai Medhat from Ginni.ai
LinkedIn: in/maimedhat/
Mai is a software engineer from Egypt and wanted to be a part of the startup ecosystem but nothing really existed. After a chance meeting with her future co-founder Nihal at an event they started Eventtus. 10 years of building this event tech platform to a global force they sold the business to Bevy a US-tech giant. Along the way Mai also had the chance to share stages with the likes of President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg.
CONNECT WITH James:
- LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/
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00:00 - Start
00:01:25 - Introduction to Ginni
00:03:36 - What is eventtus
00:04:58 - did Mai imagine Eventtus would become so successful
00:06:01 - The importance of change and pivotting effectively
00:07:51 - How Mai and eventtus pivoted during covid
00:10:26 - taking a huge risk with covid virtual events
00:13:08 - having a remote team during covid
00:15:18 - moving location as a requisite to gaining funding
00:16:26 - How Mai met Obama and Zuck
00:19:55 - How mai came to be on stage with obama and zuck
00:22:57 - Mai ending up on the front cover of forbes middle east
00:24:52 - How does mai balance work to life
00:28:46 - advice to emerging market new founders
00:32:20 - How early on are you looking for acquisition partners
00:34:00 - Going from founder to employee post sale
00:38:49 - how do you feel when informing your team that the business has been acquired
00:40:29 - how does it feel to receive exited money
00:41:19 - round 2 as a founder with ginni.ai
00:43:35 - best advice to an exited founder
00:44:39 - being a mum and starting a new business
00:45:48 - you find out who your friends are when you start a business
00:46:58 - managing self guilt of fomo with friends
00:49:18 - how did Mai acquire customers with eventtus
00:51:57 - how important is network to Mai
00:54:08 - how networking should be done offline
00:56:28 - you never know where a network connection will take you
01:00:21 - Where can you find Mai online
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