#016 Amr Shady: Data is King

Shot back in October 2023, in this episode we sit down with Amr Shady (CEO of Tribal Credit). Amr spearheads a mission to help bring financial inclusion to startups in emerging markets. From ideation to fundraising, product development to operations, investor to board relations, Amr leads the overall execution of Tribal’s strategy and vision.

He is a serial tech entrepreneur and data scientist with two decades of building and scaling startups. Amr co-founded Tribal Credit, a spin-off from his NYU research on using AI to predict startup success at inception.

He started his first company (TA Telecom) at 22, bootstrapping it to a multimillion dollar business — dubbed “local hero” by the Financial Times and ranked by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing tech companies in EMEA.
Amr is the Chairman of Endeavor Egypt and former board member of TechWadi, two non-profits advancing entrepreneurship in the MENA region and the world. He holds an MS in Business Analytics from NYU, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Dalhousie University.