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Building location-based social networks in Egypt

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Adel Youssef, 39, a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, is the creator of Google’s MyLocation service. He worked at Google for five years, receiving a myriad of Silicon Valley honors. He’s a member of the small group (14 people) who has won the Google Founders’ award, given to employees who have created “phenomenal” projects, as termed by Sergey Brin. In 2010, he decided to move back to his native country of Egypt. This was before the revolution, an event which he interpreted as “a sign that we were on the right track.” Adel Youssef is a heavyweight…

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