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Jamilia Grier

Five years building in Dubai — what nobody tells you


Hi friend, I'm back in Dubai tonight, after a few days in Abu Dhabi last week. On my last evening there I walked down to the Corniche to film a video, and I almost didn't. The beach was right there, the light was golden, and the UAE was doing that thing it does — making you forget you had a plan. That tension is actually what the video is about. Because the hardest thing about building a business here isn't the paperwork or the freezones. It's that you're building something that requires...
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