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I came few days ago, by these line by a person talking about Woopra and how it was sold.

“He criticized the slow and expensive broadband connectivity in Lebanon saying that it is preventing foreign investors from doing business in the country. He criticized the difficulty in acquiring patent rights, mentioning Woopra: a web analytics service invented by two Lebanese people aimed at generating live detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.
“Their tool proved to be better than Google statistics and was downloaded by 15 million people around the world. However, they could not protect their invention with a patent unfortunately, and had to sell equity to a Greek investor for them to go worldwide,” he said.”

Although part of his statement is right when stating that broadband speed and price is preventing foreign investors from doing business here, I wished he had investigated about Woopra before saying it was sold for someone abroad.

First, he needs to know that this Greek investor has a name, which is John Pozadzides, a very successful man in the IT industry. John was chief marketing officer at LayeredTech. John unlike most of Lebanese investors a strong believer in Woopra and gave them the chance to go worldwide and we all thank him for that.

As for Woopra founders, it was worth mentioning their names, Elie El Khoury and Jad Younan, who worked day and night for a whole year to come up with the first release of Woopra. The most important thing this person should know, or should’ve asked about, is that Elias and Jad never sold Woopra, on the contrary, they refused to sell it and they are now co-founders for iFusion Labs alongside John.

So I think using Woopra as an example for the bad broadband we have is a very false statement. The lack of Lebanese investors who believed in it in first place was the reason for Elie and Jad to look� elsewhere because as bad as broadband is Woopra is being developed in Lebanon, so forgive me sir but next time do some research on the subject before starting to throw false statements that are far from reality for you sake and for our sake, so we don’t have to write another blog to clarify it.