From the course: From Banking to Wildlife: Omar Samra’s Exceptional Career Change

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Starting a travel company

Starting a travel company

- After Omar climbed Mount Everest and graduated from the London Business School in the same summer, he decided to return to Egypt. He continued his career in finance working with some friends at a local firm and decided to start a travel company. So then you come back, you're working with your friends in private equity and then did you start Wild? I don't know how to say - Guanabana. the name of your company. How do you say it? - [Omar] Guanabana. - [Interviewer] Guanabana? What is that? - [Omar] It's a fruit from Latin America. - [Interviewer] What is it? - [Omar] It's a, it looks like a star. It's like a big, almost oval shaped, green spiky fruit, and when you cut it open with a machete it looks white on the inside with black pits. - [Interviewer] Ah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Okay, cool. - [Omar] We also call it Soursop. - [Interviewer] So you started this, you started Wild Guanabana, your…

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