Founder Stories

Tech Oman
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Founder Stories is the flagship podcast of the Tech Oman Innovation Campus, Oman's community-led home for founders, mentors, and investors. Every episode sits down with an entrepreneur from Oman and the wider GCC to trace the real arc of building a company — the origin story, the moment they leapt, the technology and decisions that set them apart, and the lessons earned along the way. From traditional businesses reinvented through tech to first-time founders scaling from zero, these are candid, practical conversations, not highlight reels. Whether you're building, mentoring, investing, or just

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    Episode 02 - Rawan Darweesh Fallata of BidBid

    Founder Stories sits down with Rawan Darweesh Fallata, Co-Founder of BidBid and a transformation leader with 18+ years inside some of the Gulf's biggest institutions — banks and hospitals — quietly rebuilding how they serve people. Then she did what most operators only talk about: she left to build her own. We get into what "transformation" actually means when you walk into a broken organization, the most stubborn process she ever fixed, and the leap into BidBid — what's genuinely broken in how companies run auctions and bidding, and how she's fixing it. Plus what it's like founding as a Saudi woman in the GCC right now. Keep building.

  2. Jul 16

    Episode 01 - Christine Karan of Code 30 Strategies

    For the very first episode of Founder Stories, the Tech Oman podcast, we sit down with Christine Karan — founder of Code 30 Strategies and one of the most forward-thinking voices in Oman's AI and marketing scene. Christine's path is anything but linear: from studying banking and finance in the UK, to training at Harvard in disruptive strategy, to becoming an IBM-certified AI prompt engineer. In 2020, as the world was shutting down, she launched Code 30 Strategies — a consultancy that helps organisations of every stripe, from hospitals to pizza chains, work out how AI actually fits into their growth plan. She went on to create Oman's first-ever AI in Marketing Conference, pulling 200+ marketing professionals into a room for something that had never been done before. In this conversation, Christine talks through her origin story, winning that first client, context-switching between a pizza campaign and a hospital AI strategy, the lessons they don't teach at Harvard, and her honest take on what's overhyped and underhyped in AI. And yes — half-marathons, chess, and Korean. Keep building!

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Founder Stories is the flagship podcast of the Tech Oman Innovation Campus, Oman's community-led home for founders, mentors, and investors. Every episode sits down with an entrepreneur from Oman and the wider GCC to trace the real arc of building a company — the origin story, the moment they leapt, the technology and decisions that set them apart, and the lessons earned along the way. From traditional businesses reinvented through tech to first-time founders scaling from zero, these are candid, practical conversations, not highlight reels. Whether you're building, mentoring, investing, or just

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  • Creator
    Tech Oman
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Tech Oman
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    Founder Stories