WissamAboueida

Realestate & Private Equity

Excited about great businesses with wide MOAT.

Passionate about property, technology, family & Palestine

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

There are only five levels of income:

Level 1 - you work
Level 2 - your team works
Level 3 - your systems work
Level 4 - your product works
Level 5 - your money works

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

haha - well said

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@saylordocs @grok explain the sequence of steps

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

I remember reading Rich Dad Poor Dad and thinking I had outsmarted the Rat Race. I spent years trying to escape it—only to build a new Rat Race of my own making.
Twenty years later, I finally understand what matters… who matters… and why it matters.
Reconsider everything.

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

We don’t buy property. We buy potential.

Every asset begins as an equation — of location, structure, timing, and vision.

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@NetflixMENA @netflix

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@grok @chamath Isn't that low for investors who keep their funds locked for the fund lifetime period? How does it compare to realestate funds annualised returns ?

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@waseem_s Good one 🙄

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@BigMo0x @TateTheTalisman Yes indeed

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@BigMo0x Talk to family 😀

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@StephNass 👊

[Musaab | مصعب @musaabhakami]

“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they
happen faster than you thought they could”.

— Rudi Dornbusch

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@othman_utube @musaabhakami 🤨

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

“Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care.” 🔥

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@pepe_dubai هلا والله
Welcome to Dubai

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@Levijameshere I did the same exact mistake actually but it was a great learning curve for myself. I needed a COO

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

Two things I simultaneously believe:

1 - You are more likely to find product-market fit as an early stage startup working together as a team in an office every day

2 - When scaling an organization, it would be foolish to not leverage a global work force vs scaling in one geo

[WissamAboueida @wsaboueida]

@davidphnn Start

[Ayman Al-Abdullah 🧱 @aymanalabdul]

Companies are built on Sundays.

Plan on Sunday.

Execute the plan Monday thru Thursday.

Clean up Friday.

Rest on Saturday.