The Moghamra Podcast · Ep 18 · 16 Apr 2024

Revolutionising E-commerce

ثورة في التجارة الإلكترونية

Mohammed Elhorishy Co-Founder & CEO, Taager · Cairo, Egypt

Revolutionising E-commerce — Mohammed Elhorishy

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Key takeaways

Remove inventory, unlock sellers

By holding stock and fulfilment itself, Taager lets anyone start selling online without capital tied up in goods — converting aspiring entrepreneurs into a distribution network.

Build for how MENA actually shops

Social selling, cash-on-delivery and trust gaps are regional realities — Taager's model is shaped around them rather than importing a Western dropshipping template.

Software on top of real logistics

The hard part isn't the app; it's running sourcing, warehousing and last-mile delivery reliably enough that thousands of independent sellers can depend on it.

Monetise both sides of the network

A marketplace connecting suppliers and resellers has to create — and capture — value for each, balancing margin, selection and seller economics.

About this episode

Taager is rewiring how e-commerce works in the Middle East by removing its hardest barrier: inventory. Co-founder and CEO Mohammed Elhorishy built the platform so individual entrepreneurs and small merchants can pick products, market them, and sell online while Taager handles sourcing, warehousing and last-mile fulfilment behind the scenes.

That model — sometimes called social commerce or enablement — turns a fragmented base of resellers into a distribution engine, and turns suppliers into partners with reach they couldn't build alone. The conversation digs into why this structure fits MENA specifically: high social-selling activity, cash-on-delivery norms, and a generation of would-be entrepreneurs who lack the capital to carry stock.

Mohammed talks through the operational reality of running a real supply chain underneath a software product, the unit economics of a marketplace that monetises sellers and suppliers at once, and what it takes to build trust on both sides of a network where neither party holds the goods.

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