On a sunny winter afternoon in downtown Cairo, Tarek Taha is showing off the complex of buildings that houses Egypt's first hub for startups and tech companies, which he and his partner, venture capitalist Ahmed El Alfi, opened last November. If everything goes according to plan, the 269,000-square-foot site, known as the GrEEK Campus, will eventually hold some 2,000 employees of young Egyptian companies. Businesses like mobile-app developer Abblications are already moving in. Wandering through the impressive halls and courtyards of this ambitious undertaking, Taha greets tenants and shows off in-progress amenities such as a multistory concrete slab that will soon become a climbing wall for team-building exercises. At one point, he gestures toward the street just outside the campus. "This is Mohamed Mahmoud," he says. "The famous Mohamed Mahmoud."
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