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Our friends Ahmed El Alfi and Khaled Ismail get some love from the Financial Times this morning. Heba Saleh turns in a nice piece in which El Alfi (wearing his Flat6Labs hat) makes the point that, \u201cPeople with corporate experience are leaving careers to start companies. 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