Muhammad M. Mansour
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| Born | Muhammad Mahmoud Mansour October 19, 1984 Al Jahra, Kuwait |
| Other names | TripleM (screen name) |
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| 🌐 Website | Muhammad M. Mansour on Facebook |
Muhammad Mahmoud Mansour (born October 19, 1984) is an Egyptian founder, podcaster, and former webmaster. He is a co-founder of the annual event RiseUp Summit,[1] and co-host of Fil50.
In 2013, Mansour traveled to Austin, TX to attend SXSW, a festival celebrating what’s up and coming in film, music, art, technology and more. SXSW provided the initial inspiration for the grassroots event, RiseUp Summit (2013). On December 15, 2013, with Abdelhameed Sharara and others, Mansour launched RiseUp Summit, a three-day startup conference that enjoyed rapid regional growth and popularity. As RiseUp's public profile grew, he became its promoter and spokesman.
Early life
Mansour was born in Al-Jahra, shortly before midnight on October 19, 1984 to Egyptian expats in Kuwait. His father Mahmoud Mansour worked as a Senior Food Safety Inspector, while his mother, Amina Abu Donia was a teacher.
Career
Jeeran
In 2008, Mansour took a job with Jeeran, a social-networking web platform that looks like Facebook focused on Middle Eastern culture and cities Amman, Jordan. Mansour has described himself as having been addicted to the Internet from an early stage and he wrote computer code during his leisure time. During his studies in Menoufia, he taught PHP, MySQL, and HTML —and thereby experienced the potential of the internet to foster large-scale collaborative projects.
GeekFest Cairo, Startup Weekends, SXSW and the origins of RiseUp Summit
Though GeekFest Cairo [2] and Startups Weekends[3] had at the time struggled to make money, it provided Mansour with the connections and event planning skills to pursue his greater passion, networking. While attending a discussion group with several ministers devoted to entrepreneurship in 2013, Mansour encountered Abdelhameed Sharara, a skeptic of the government role. The two had engaged in detailed debate on the subject that day, eventually meeting to continue the debate and becoming friends. Months later, after attending SXSW for the first time, Mansour approached Sharara—who at that time was an entrepreneur in residence at Injaz—to help co-organize an event, and in October 2013, RiseUp, a community-led event, was launched. The intent behind RiseUp was to have entrepreneurs, investors and experts on a variety of topics as speakers, and to sell tickets alongside in order to make profit. The first event was characterized by a collaborative process designed to make its sessions of a quality comparable to that of professional events.
RiseUp Summit
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 Riseup Summit, RiseUp, 2015[4] | |
| Rise up Egypt 2013, Handmade[disambiguation needed], 2013 |
Originally, Mansour initially saw RiseUp primarily as a one-time event.[5] To the surprise of Sharara and Mansour, within a few days of launching, the number of backers and publicity had outgrown their expectations, and a small collective of stakeholders had formed. It was Muhammad Mansour, along with other people, who came up with the broader idea of an open-source, collaborative event that would accept contributions from various stakeholders and participants.[6]
Role
Mansour is no longer involved in the day-to-day running of RiseUp since 2016. One of his key roles is brand ambassador for the event. His knowledge and involvement in upper circles of government, businesses and stakeholders and his ability to rally people around the RiseUp movement are very helpful in getting the business done.
ThePlanet
In mid-2016, Mansour joined ThePlanet, a media group founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt with an office in Dubai, UAE.
ThePlanet and later pursuits
In 2020, Mansour and the founder of ThePlanet, Tarek Nasr launched Fil50 Podcast.[7] Fil50 is a weekly podcast for creatives, change-makers, thought-leaders and entrepreneurs around the world.
Some of the past guests include Hesham Safwat, Hany Sonbaty, Tarek Fahim, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Fatma Ghaly, Kaswara Al-khatib, Ahmed Alfi....and more
Political and economic views
Personal philosophy
Mansour is a self-avowed "Democratic socialist liberal. He is a community-based leftist that distrusts bureaucracy and hates paternalism. Mansour inhabits common ground with libertarians on social issues, and he is a consistent opponent of war and foreign intervention, but he does not believe that an unfettered free market will solve every social problem.
Books
- Chapter in "Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy" by Amir Hegazi.[8]
Queen Rania Controversy
In 2009, Mansour created a Facebook Page for Queen Rania of Jordan. In a few days the page attracted thousands of fans, which is a lot in the early days of Facebook Pages.[9] The Page was later claimed by the Queen's office without the permission of the page creator, who was kicked out as an Admin and wasn't able to make any changes to the page.[10] The queen was criticized for taking over the page without giving credit to the Egyptian blogger who created it.[11]
External links
References
- ↑ https://egyptianstreets.com/2014/10/09/egypts-youth-riseup-for-their-future/
- ↑ https://www.egypreneur.com/content/page/17/
- ↑ https://www.wamda.com/2011/05/carving-ideals-into-ideas-at-startup-weekend-cairo
- ↑ Mansour, Muhammad (Jan 2016). "The Middle East's Tech Startup Scene". Startup Scene. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.wamda.com/2013/11/rise-up-egypt-entrepreneurial-summit
- ↑ https://www.madamasr.com/en/2014/10/04/feature/economy/ready-to-riseup-again/
- ↑ https://podfollow.com/fil50/view #Fil50 - في الخمسينة
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52820340-ecosystem-arabia
- ↑ https://globalvoices.org/2009/05/14/arab-world-reacts-to-jordans-twittering-queen-rania/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090526010926/http://triplem.host.sk/?p=1682
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090519222056/http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/05/queen-rania-steals-facebook-page.html
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