@founding.mena: A businessman weighing millions of dollars on a scale made a Stanford PhD leave Silicon Valley and return to Algeria. Noureddine Tayebi saw something most people would have overlooked. An entire economy operating outside the banking system. That observation led him to build Yassir, starting with ride-hailing before expanding into food delivery, groceries and digital payments. Today, Yassir has attracted more than $190M in investment. But the biggest part of the story might not be the money. It's what the company helped build in Algeria. What would you have done after seeing something like that? #FoundingMENA #Yassir #Algeria #MENAStartups #Entrepreneurship

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