UAE Tech Podcast: Yuri Dvoinos on Dubai Tech Swagger

Published April 18th, 2024 - 02:21 GMT
 Yuri Dvoinos | Al Bawaba
Yuri Dvoinos | Al Bawaba

Yuri Dvoinos sold his company Figleaf to Aura in 2020. He currently serves as Chief Innovation Officer at the Boston based cybersecurity firm, which is backed by none other than Robert Downey Jr. 

We wanted to begin our interview with “so what’s it like working with Iron Man,” but apparently everyone leads with this line, and the two have not met. Also, Iron Man is a fictional character, so that would be weird. 

We digress. Yuri is a habitual entrepreneur. He’s workled on Kickstarter projects, digital education and has spent a decade right here in Dubai, where he bootstrapped 50M+ paying customers for Clario cybersecurity, a company he co-founded.

We wanted to begin our interview with “so what’s it like working with Iron Man,” but apparently everyone leads with this line, and the two have not met.

We caught up with Yuri to share insights into how the city can attract talent, serve a global addressable market, and also grow into a new sense of itself as a mature tech industry, rather than a plucky upstart with a loveable swagger. Whatever the future holds, we hope Dubai keeps the swagger.
 

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