Tech start-ups lead Lebanon out of the rubble

Management Today

For millennia, Lebanon has produced brilliant business people. Right back to The Odyssey in which Homer sung frostily of a man 'of Phoenicia, well versed in guile, a greedy knave', the Lebanese have been great traders and deal-makers. In modern times, the huge Lebanese diaspora - thought to number around 16 million, coming from a homeland of a mere four million souls - includes Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world, Carlos Ghosn, the boss of Renault/Nissan, and Jacques Nasser, once boss of Ford now at BHP Billiton. Salma Hayek (who has a Lebanese grandfather) is a renowned businesswoman as well as actress. From fly-blown hamlets in West Africa, via Sydney suburbs to the Brazilian bush, the Lebanese are running businesses all over the planet.

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