Fetchr Co-Founder Joy Ajlouny on Being a Woman in Tech | BoF VOICES
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In a deeply personal presentation at BoF VOICES, the entrepreneur behind two successful Silicon Valley ventures shares her lessons from the "double bind" of navigating her industry as a woman.
To watch Joy's talk at VOICES 2018 click here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the Bof podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | This week we're sharing a talk from Voices 2018 by a very inspiring woman named Joy Agluni. |
| 0:16.0 | Joy is one of the most prominent female entrepreneurs in the Middle East, having co-founded Fetcher, a tech company |
| 0:22.1 | based in Dubai that aims to solve the no address problem, hindering growth of e-commerce |
| 0:27.6 | platforms in emerging markets. Fetcher uses patented technology, which allows people to use their mobile |
| 0:33.5 | phone GPS location as their address, and is the first startup in the Middle East to be funded |
| 0:38.8 | by a top venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley. To date, Fetcher has raised $52 million. |
| 0:46.3 | Joy spoke to us about being a woman in technology, something she calls the double bind. |
| 0:52.1 | Here's Joy Ajluni at Voices 2018. I want to start off by saying that |
| 1:00.3 | when I got a phone call asking to speak and an email asking to speak at B-O-F, my first reaction was, |
| 1:07.3 | are you sure you want me? I'm not in fashion. And when then they came on to start |
| 1:13.2 | telling me that, well, this is about, you know, expressing, you know, voices and about people who |
| 1:21.1 | are game changers, I was extremely flattered. And I'm very humble to be here today. So from the |
| 1:27.3 | bottom of my heart, thank you. I'm really |
| 1:30.1 | flattered. So I like to start off this thing by basically kind of telling you who I am. And I always start |
| 1:36.1 | off by being really, I speak from the heart, so let me be natural. I'm really nobody's special. And I say that with all |
| 1:43.7 | sincerity. I'm nobody special. And I say that with all sincerity. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm nobody special. |
| 1:46.5 | And I kind of want to tell you about my journey because usually what happens is everybody |
| 1:50.6 | says to me, how did you become a tech entrepreneur? |
| 1:52.9 | How did you become one of the top women venture funded companies? |
| 1:58.1 | And I kind of want to tell you a little bit about the journey because this is |
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