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Abdulmajeed Alsukhan

CEO & Co-Founder, Tamara

Search every verified Abdulmajeed Alsukhan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, co-founder and CEO of Tamara, appeared on the podcast "Talks with Tea" recorded live at the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival in April 2024. During the conversation, Alsukhan discussed his entrepreneurial journey and compared the difficulty of building companies to his experience of fighting cancer at a young age. He stated that he finds building companies more difficult than undergoing cancer treatment, explaining that entrepreneurship is something one can mentally quit, whereas cancer is not. Alsukhan also said he believes discipline is "doing what you hate but doing it like you love it" and described it as a superpower that must be built as a character trait. Alsukhan shared several perspectives on business and leadership. He said he refuses to celebrate fundraising rounds, viewing them as recognition rather than achievements, and argued that an entrepreneur's focus should be on the customer and numbers. He attributed the number one factor in a company's success to timing and luck, advising to "work hard, work smart, and get lucky." Alsukhan also noted that the practice of giving credit to known customers in grocery stores inspired his understanding of the buy-now-pay-later market, and he credited the transformation in Saudi Arabia's funding and culture for enabling the current startup environment.

Recent appearances

  • Strategic partnerships: rethinking the banking-fintech relationship | Fintech Forward 2025

    December 20, 2025 · 📺 Fintech Forward

    As financial services become increasingly digitised and competition intensifies, banks face a critical business decision: whether to build capacity internally, acquire new solutions or forge strategic partnerships to accelerate their digital transformation and expand their offerings. This choice will be critical to their success. At a time of rising customer expectations and technological disruption, how can partnerships deliver real value? What kind of incentives, risks and cultural challenges need to be managed to ensure a successful bank-fintech partnership? And how can legacy institution…

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  • The Currency of Trust: Why Finance Runs on More Than Money

    September 16, 2025 · 📺 Tamara | تمارا

    Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, CEO of Tamara, discusses how trust became the foundation for building a fintech powerhouse.

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  • #32-Abdulmajeed Al Sukhan (CEO of Tamara) on why building companies is tougher than fighting cancer

    April 15, 2024 · 📺 TalkswithT

    This episode was recorded live at the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival (SEF). Our first live show! Abdulmajeed is a serial entrepreneur in the true sense of the word. He is co-founder of Nana (the largest grocery delivery platform in KSA) and currently co-founder and CEO of Tamara ( a leading Buy Now Pay Later startup in MENA). Abdulmajeed walks us through his journey to entrepreneurship and how his first startup failed before leading him to co-found Nana. He also discusses his lessons from fighting cancer at a young age. Abdulmajeed is a deep thinker and is well versed across various disci…

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  • Future of Buy Now, Pay Later in the Middle East with Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Tamara

    July 11, 2022 · 📺 Couchonomics with Arjun

    The "By Now, Pay Later" model has been around for 200 years. After being repackaged and rebranded countless times, it is currently one of the hottest spaces in FinTech, with BNPL accounting for 20% of e-commerce in countries such as Australia. In this episode of Couchonomics, we are joined on the couch by a BNPL industry insider to get an informed perspective on this increasingly polarising topic. Abdulmajeed Alsukhan is the CEO and co-founder of Tamara, the leading Buy Now Pay Later provider in the MENA region. Abdulmajeed and Arjun delved into the BNPL conversation, tackling questions arou…

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  • MENAP Fintech Voices - Unlocking fintech growth: the power of progressive regulation.

    July 09, 2021 · 📺 Checkout

    Moderator: Mo Yusuf, Regional Manager, Checkout.com Panellists: AbdulMajeed AlSukhan, Cofounder, Tamara Nameer Khan, Chairman and Founding Board Member, MENA Fintech Association Georgina Merhom, Founder, Zivmi Ben Ruffels, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Checkout.com Description: In this session, we’ll explore how regulatory developments are cultivating an environment ripe for innovation across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. Plus, what barriers to progress remain – and how these can be resolved – and how businesses and consumers benefit from fintech innovation.

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