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#63 Ali Halabi on startup failure, pivot and re-birth. An incredible story of resilience

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I sat down with Ali Halabi, Founder & CEO of Volt Lines, a Turkish based B2B mobility platform solving for the daily work commute in Istanbul, a city of 15million people that is notorious for its traffic woes.

Ali has had a fascinating journey from Lebanon to Turkey and has rubbed shoulders with failure many times. In fact Volt Lines was the re-birth of a previous startup called Volt which he had to shut down. He saw himself celebrate Volt Line’s exit to Swvl, a $1.5B regional startup, only to get his company back 6 months later.

Ali’s business ingenuity has been documented in a 3 part Harvard Business School case study. This episode is raw, genuine and a masterclass in entrepreneurship.

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Ali Halabi

Ali Halabi is a Lebanese/Turkish entrepreneur and is the founder and CEO of Volt Lines, a Turkey-based B2B smart mobility scaleup that is backed by MEVP, Dubai Angel Investors, Wamda Capital and many more. He moved to Turkey in 2013 with Procter & Gamble only to quit his corporate career a year later and pursue a career focused on filling up empty seats in traffic in a relentless pursuit of increasing efficiency in urban mobility. In 2023, Harvard Business School started teaching a case study about Volt Lines’ DRT product which was launched during the COVID pandemic.

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