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This Entrepreneur Gets Inspiration From His Childhood InventionsLeo Group managing partner Mossab Otman Basir was raised to push forward an any idea he had. Now his childhood creations remind him to always explore, innovate and iterate.

ByMossab Otman Basir

This story appears in theNovember 2018issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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As a kid, I helped my father reformat computers for a lab he started at Ontario's University of Guelph. I unscrewed cases of old clone computers to upgrade memory slots and graphics cards, or added a 56k modem to the board. He could have done it faster without me; I know that now. But he was allowing me to see how things worked.

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