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Fawry: Ashraf Sabry
Founding MENA · 1:04
How Ashraf Sabry built Egypt's biggest payments network by signing up corner shops through a revolution, while his rivals retreated.
Ashraf Sabry put bill payments in the corner shop for Egyptians without bank accounts, and kept signing up merchants through the 2011 revolution. Fawry listed in 2019.
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