When Mo Ibrahim was growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, he idolized scientists such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and eventually became a telecommunications engineer.
"Because of my bringing, because of … my social background … we assume businessmen are crooks or people involved in funny stuff. We respect professions, you know. You need to be a doctor, an engineer, to earn honest money and to do right work, but guys involved in wheeling and dealing, we are suspicious of that," he told CNBC's"The Brave Ones."
"It was strange, because I'm not supposed to be the business , I'm supposed to be the technocrat. And I go work in the big organization. So what do you do when you get fed up working in a large company and the bureaucracy? I said, 'OK, I'm going to be a consultant.'"
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