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Souq and Amazon
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- 0:00The man behind the Burj Khalifa bid more
- 0:01than Amazon for the Middle East's
- 0:03biggest online store. Amazon still got
- 0:05it. He had already started a rival. Meet
- 0:07Mohamed Alabbar, founder of Emaar. He
- 0:09built the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai
- 0:11Mall. In 2016, the mall builder went
- 0:13online. He announced Noon, a
- 0:15billion-dollar online store half-funded
- 0:16by Saudi Arabia's wealth fund. In 2017,
- 0:19the region's biggest online store,
- 0:20Souq.com, was for sale. Alabbar's mall
- 0:23company offered $800 million.
- 0:25Amazon bought it for about $586 million.
- 0:28Souq became Amazon .ae, then Amazon.sa
- 0:32and Amazon.eg. Noon launched in October
- 0:342017 in the UAE, then Saudi Arabia. It
- 0:38built its own delivery fleet and now
- 0:39delivers groceries in minutes. Noon has
- 0:41reportedly raised more than $3 billion.
- 0:43Alabbar says it is worth close to $10
- 0:45billion and was profitable. He plans to
- 0:47list it. Amazon bought the biggest
- 0:49store. Alabbar built his own.
- 0:52Follow Vibeeconomy for more.
- 0:54>> [music]
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