The Entrepreneur's Odyssey: Navigating Tech, Art, and Integrity with Hussein Hallak

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, midnight

The Entrepreneur's Odyssey: Navigating Tech, Art, and Integrity with Hussein Hallak \n\nMy guest on E310 of #thePOZcast t is Hussein Hallak. Hussein is a seasoned entrepreneur, prolific advisor, and thought leader in the tech space with a career spanning over 25 years. He's the Founder and CEO of Next Decentrum, a leading provider of business education in emerging technology, and the company behind Momentable, a discovery platform for art and culture.\xa0\nHussein has developed over 20 startups, honing extensive expertise and experience. In his previous role as Evangelist and General Manager at Launch Academy, he mentored and trained hundreds of entrepreneurs, helping it become one of North America's premier tech incubators with over 6,500 founders and 500 startups raising more than $1 billion.\xa0\nHussein has also launched successful ventures like CreativeArab, the world's first and largest marketplace for Middle Eastern art, and The Content People, an award-winning content marketing agency with prominent clients such as Virgin Mobile, Pfizer, and Starbucks.\n\nFor more on Hussein, please visit: check out momentable.art where you can get some free art https://www.momentable.art/\n\nWe unpack a lot of topics including the importance of balancing work and personal life as an entrepreneur and the value of integrity and delivering on commitments. Hussein also reflects on the influence of his parents and their principles on his entrepreneurial mindset. He shares his experiences in building ventures like Creative Arab and explores the intersection of technology and art with NFTs. Finally, he introduces Momentum, a platform that combines the conversational web and the visual web to enhance the experience of art and culture. The conversation covers the importance of working with people you like, hiring methodology, dealing with change in a startup, adaptability and loyalty, the excitement and challenges of technology, the fear and potential of AI, delivering on your word, and love for family as a North Star.\n\nThis episode is brought to you by MANSCAPED\xae. The brand that took your balls to space is now launching them into the ultra-sphere, Introducing The Lawn Mower\xae 5.0 ULTRA. Featuring a new cutting-edge design and next-generation, dual SkinSafe\u2122 Blade Heads for different shaves \u2014 it\u2019s pretty much a spaceship to take your boys downstairs to the next level.\n\nJoin the 9 million men worldwide who trust MANSCAPED with the BRAND NEW The Lawn Mower 5.0 Ultra by going to manscaped.com for 20% off + free shipping with the code "POZCAST".\n\n#thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller \u2013 the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers.\nCheck out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ\n\nThanks for listening, and please follow us on Insta @NHPTalent and X @AdamJPosner.\nPlease visit www.thePOZcast.com thanks!