Don't Hire Your Friends, My Intern Was Texting Clients Behind My Back | Firdaus Mohamed, GoBarakah
He spent 20 years assessing risk for Malaysia's banks. Then he hired his friends.
Firdaus Mohamed built a career on one skill: knowing what could go wrong. Corporate strategy at Bank Islam, Zurich, Etiqa and AmBank. Credit committees. Zakat committees. Then he left to build GoBarakah, a fintech that turns donations into trackable, traceable e-vouchers, and his team went on to launch Impakrintas, Malaysia's first Social Exchange.
But when it came to his own team, the risk expert skipped the due diligence. A conversation over Hari Raya dinner became a job offer. An old uni friend with C-suite…
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