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People Should always be the Motivation Behind your Business, Believes Mohammad Makhlouf

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Instilling motivation is not an easy task, but it’s necessary for your people to excel, thrive and stay cooperative with your endeavour. It entails a great deal of driving forces for motivating people to work hard and productively for the nation. Acknowledging this fact, a legion of entrepreneurs are striving hard to bring a change in people’s lives by introducing new business ideas and contributing to the educational, social, and cultural development of a nation.

One such person is Mohammed Makhlouf, a Syrian entrepreneur and philanthropist who has carved a niche for himself by devoting his life in doing various philanthropic activities. He has earned numerous accolades worldwide by playing a pivotal role to mitigate Syria’s challenges through his innovative ideas. A man who has no limits, Makhlouf has been pushing big aspirations into a reality, spurring massive technological and cultural transformations. His magnetic personality and audacious vision are continually inspiring others to follow what seems to be impossible.

This 22-year-old Damascus native has pursued BBA degree from the American University in Dubai, owing to which, he has adequate leadership skills, managerial knowledge, critical thinking, communication expertise, and decision-making power to comprehend and solve the burning issues of Syria.

Mohammad Makhlouf was nurtured in a family, which owned major companies in Syria. Embarking on his entrepreneurial endeavour, Makhlouf has co-founded Milk Man Dairy Products and Future Builders.  Mohammad owns multiple businesses all across Syria.

Each of his enterprises are engaged in generating employment opportunities to give a fillip to the economy of Syria. Makhlouf sees beyond the current business landscapes, and believes in establishing a company that can make a discernible impact in improving the quality of human life of Syria.

“My business was based on the market needs, what best suits the growth and development of the country,” says Mohammad Makhlouf. He further added that aiding people was always a top priority for him, and owing to his will, he kept excelling in his endeavours continually.

Besides bringing a smile to a legion of faces in Syria, this vivacious entrepreneur has also earned a nod for his charitable works. His brainchild, MRM charity is going to be unleashed in 2022, and is anticipated to contribute in the reconstruction of Syria.

Having drawn some huge investments, MRM is already causing a ripple across the globe.  He also owns a charitable sports stadium in Lattakia, Syria.

“Knowing that you can change a person’s life with a little help is rejuvenating and gives you a different perspective on money. It will motivate you to earn because you know that your earning will help you impact several lives,” said Makhlouf, who was coveted with Syria’s “Most charitable Individual in 2018” and the Al-Amal Award 2017.

This Good Samaritan is pleasantly remembered by the locals of Syria after he had saved many victims caught in a fire in Rotana, Lattakia. The massive success that Makhlouf savers today is certainly an outcome of his sheer hard work.

Kudos and more power to this incredibly talented entrepreneur!

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MetaWorx: Building Full-Stack AI Teams, Not Just Automation

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Automation still dominates most headlines, yet the returns often fail to meet expectations. A sprawling chatbot rollout might shave a few support tickets, but it rarely shifts the profit-and-loss statement in a lasting way. 

McKinsey’s 2025 workplace survey pegs AI’s long-term productivity upside at $4.4 trillion, but only one percent of enterprises say they’ve reached true “AI maturity.” MetaWorx, a Dallas, Texas-based AI employee agency founded by Rachel Kite, argues that the shortfall has nothing to do with models and everything to do with people. 

“Treat AI like a point solution and you’ll get point-solution results,” shares Kite. “You need a roster that can carry the ball from raw data to governance, or the whole thing stalls at the proof-of-concept phase.”

The pod blueprint

When a plug-and-play automation script collapsed under real-world data drift, costing Kite a lucrative contract, she sketched the six-person “pod” that now anchors every MetaWorx engagement:

  1. An infrastructure architect to tame compute costs.
  2. A data engineer to secure and shape pipelines. 
  3. An applied scientist to prototype models against live feedback loops. 
  4. An MLOps engineer to automate rollback and retraining. 
  5. A domain product lead translates forecasts into features users actually notice. 
  6. Ethics and compliance analysts to stress test outputs for bias and keep the audit. 

The team’s first sprint still delivers a quick-win bot — “small enough to calm the CFO,” jokes Kite — but the roadmap quickly pivots to reliability, explainability, and eventually optimization. By tying every algorithmic decision to a quantifiable business metric, the pods turn AI from a science project into a growth lever. 

Recruiting for curiosity, not credentials

With Bain & Company predicting a global AI-skills crunch through 2027, MetaWorx has stopped chasing unicorn résumés. Instead, it hires “adjacent athletes”: a computer-vision PhD who hops from medical imaging to warehouse surveillance, or a former journalist who recasts her nose for story into prompt-engineering finesse.

“Domain expertise expires fast,” Kite says. “What doesn’t expire is the instinct to ask better questions.” The result is a lattice of overlapping skills that stays flexible when models wander into the long tail of edge-case data.

A culture of rapid experiments

Inside MetaWorx, every idea faces the same litmus test: ship something — anything — into a user’s hands within 21 days. The “three-week rule” forces prototypes into the wild early, where failure is cheap and feedback is swift. Post-mortems, including cost overruns, are circulated company-wide, erasing any stigma associated with missteps.

That laboratory mindset powers velocity. “Our first model is almost always wrong,” Kite admits, “but version 1.0 is the tuition we pay for version 2.0.” The philosophy echoes her TEDx talk on resilience: progress is iterative, not heroic.

How leaders can steal the playbook

Executives itching to replicate MetaWorx’s results don’t need a blank check. Kite offers a five-step sequence:

  • Inventory pain points, not tools: Walk the P&L line by line and tag the friction you can measure.
  • Map the stack to the problem: A recommendation engine, for instance, requires behavior data, retraining triggers, and feedback capture — automation alone won’t suffice.
  • Stand up a pod: Reassign existing talent into a cross-functional tiger team before hiring externally; the chemistry test is free.
  • Measure the story, not just the statistic: Pair model accuracy with human-scale metrics like ticket backlog or employee churn.
  • Budget for the boring: Reserve at least 30 percent of spend for MLOps and governance; Stanford’s HAI review links most AI failures to neglected upkeep.

Taken together, those steps shift AI from a pilot novelty to an operational habit that compounds value rather than topping out after an initial PR splash.

Character still scales faster than code

MetaWorx plans to double its headcount this year, yet Kite insists the secret isn’t a proprietary framework or a monster war chest. It’s credibility. Clients see a founder who has wrestled with the same outages and surprise bills they face. That authenticity converts skeptics faster than any algorithmic novelty.

“Tools level out,” Kite says. “Culture compounds.”

The insight lands in a marketplace still dazzled by generative fireworks. Yes, MetaWorx ships models and dashboards, but its true product is a mindset: resilience over rigidity, questions over credentials, experiments over edicts. In Kite’s world, automation is merely the appetizer. The main course is a full-stack team that knows why the model matters to the business and who owns its success after launch day.

And that, Kite argues, is how AI finally graduates from cost-cutter to growth engine, one curious pod at a time.

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