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Careem and Uber
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- 0:00A ride app from Dubai outbuild Uber in
- 0:03the Middle [music] East. So Uber bought
- 0:05it. In 2012, two former consultants,
- 0:08>> [music]
- 0:08>> Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson,
- 0:11started Careem in Dubai. At first, it
- 0:14booked rides [music] for companies. Then
- 0:16it went where Uber struggled, cash
- 0:19payments, local maps, drivers called
- 0:22captains, Cairo, Karachi, [music]
- 0:25Riyadh, Amman. Within four years, it
- 0:28became the first tech unicorn in the
- 0:30Middle East.
- 0:31In March 2019, Uber agreed to buy Careem
- 0:34for [music] $3.1 billion,
- 0:37part cash, part notes. Careem kept its
- 0:39[music] own brand and its own founder at
- 0:41the wheel. Today, it's a super app,
- 0:44rides, [music] food, groceries,
- 0:46payments. The local startup the global
- 0:48giant had to buy.
- 0:50>> Follow Vibecession for more.
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