A Decade In Review: Simon Hudson, Founder And CEO, Cheeze – Entrepreneur

A Decade In Review: Simon Hudson, Founder And CEO, Cheeze – Entrepreneur

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With its February 2024 issue, Entrepreneur Middle East celebrates its 10th anniversary! To mark this milestone, we revisiting 10 entrepreneurs and entities that we featured in the publication a decade ago- we find out how far they have come, and what's next for each of their stories.When we reached out to Cheeze founder and CEO Simon Hudson -one of the earliest contributors to Entrepreneur Middle East- to participate in this feature, which essentially tracks his career/life between 2014 and 2024, the first thing that he tells us is that taking a moment to rewind the clock 10 years, and really looking into his entrepreneurial journey is something he doesn't do often- or enough.And that admission sets the tone for Hudson's introspection into how much he has changed from the "much younger, less squidgy, and fresher-faced" entrepreneur he was 10 years ago. Back then, Hudson was the founder of Brndstr, a digital agency that he launched in 2013, which built application program interfaces (APIs) that'd result in engaging social media campaigns for all of its clients. "As a young 30-year-old, starting a company in Dubai in 2013 was super exciting, but