It came about because of fear, hunger and dissatisfaction: Wael Fakharany, Managing Director of Careem Egypt, penned a piece on why he chose to leave a nine-year career at Google, culminating in a run at Google X conceptualizing solutions to problems that still didn’t exist. “The fear of feeling I had settled for what was a safe and cushiony option, having never gambled on a bet of my own,” he says. “The hunger for making a bigger dent than I already have,” he added, and the dissatisfaction with the view that we as a region were not seen as able to create a multi-bn USD company that could provide service just as good as — if not better than — a global giant. (ReadWael Fakharany’s Why I left Google to join Careem)