Unlocking Unicorns: Ten Startup Stories from Diverse Billion-dollar Founders in Africa Asia and the Middle East

Do you have the key to building a billion-dollar business in an emerging economy?The entrepreneurs in this book do.Unlocking Unicorns features diverse stories from successful billion-dollar startup founders in Africa Asia and the Middle East. Learn about how the internet is revolutionizing non-Western countries and corporations through stories that touch on: Philosophies such as Guanxi and mental models such as the Regret Minimization FrameworkThe journeys of ten diverse entrepreneurs including Jack Ma (founder of AliBaba) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (founder of Biocon) Mudassir Sheikha (founder of Careem) Bang Si-Hyuk (producer behind BTS) Cher Wang (founder of HTC) Mitchell Elegbe (founder of Africas first billion-dollar FinTech company) and moreMichael Bervells three-part framework that can be applied within any industry focused on exploration refinement and execution.Discover the mental models and characteristics that enabled founders in Africa Asia and the Middle East to overcome and adapt to brain drain leapfrogging technologies location-based discrimination and government unrest.Unlocking Unicorns is the key to success for aspiring global founders or emerging economy investors who want to do business in the international interconnected 21st century.