Bayt’s Rabea Ataya on 26 Years of Building and Why the Old MENA Startup Playbook No Longer Works

Podcast: FWDstart · Jamie Lane

Opublikowano: 2026-08-10

One of the luckiest things about doing this podcast is getting to sit down with people I’ve admired for years and ask them all the questions I’ve been storing up. Rabea Ataya is very much one of those people. As the founder of Bayt, he has spent more than 26 years building through multiple technology cycles, financial crises, geopolitical shocks and the rise of an entirely new startup ecosystem around him. Bayt itself survived an era in which many of its peers disappeared, became profitable and cashflow positive, and ultimately grew into somet...