Mohammad Ghassan Zekrallah

Mohammad Ghassan Zekrallah, Co-Founder & CTO, Cura The Gulf Entrepreneur got the opportunity to feature Mohammad Ghassan Zekrallah as one of the Most Influential Entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia in 2023. We want to tell his story to many more people with an intention to inspire readers, especially budding entrepreneurs and thus embolden the entrepreneurial spirit of the region.    This feature will talk about his professional journey: challenges, failures, successes, leadership approach and the values he brings to people through the company.  Interview with Mohammad Ghassan Zekrallah (Cura) Please tell us why you chose to become an entrepreneur. Briefly tell us more about the circumstances in your life when you made this decision to incept Cura?   Being of a rebel personality type myself, I was always under the active pursuit of ‘escaping the matrix’ and I always felt that somehow, I’m enslaved to a life that I’m living but not satisfied with and that I must find a way out to gain my freedom. I was also extremely stressed financially with lots of commitments to take care of my beloved father and mother being the sole provider to them, and I was always sad that I’m not able to give them the best quality of life they deserve to have now at their age.  Around my 4th year of my career as a successful software engineer, this idea of finding a path to escape the salaried employee life and finding a way to own assets and become rich and financially independent and free started to take a hold of me. I still didn’t do anything, but I know that I wanted to own a piece of a business someday and that an employee life will not get me what I want. This idea started growing like a virus in my mind and started to define me similar to this quote from ‘inception’ movie: ‘An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you”.   Being convinced of those believes, I started talking a lot about my interests in building a start-up amongst my friends and circles of connections and indulging in start-up building cultures. I think that attracted the right people that came to my life later, but still, the right time did not come yet. I remember in 2012, I invited my colleague and friend