Build to Scale: Do's & Don'ts for Scaling Your Product Team

​Mabrook 🎉 You’ve built your prototype, MVP, or found PMF in your home market — now it’s time to scale your product and team without compromising speed, quality, or runway.
​In this tactical 45-minute session, Hassan Jaffar, DotZero Chief Strategy Officer and ex-Cartazy co-founder (exited to Kavak), will cover the essential do’s and don’ts of scaling from a core founding/technical team to a high-performing, scaleable product team that can take your startup to market — and beyond.
​What we’ll cover:

• ​Hiring options breakdown: The pros and cons of in-house hiring, outsourcing/BPO, and hybrid/augmented models.
• ​Demystify offshore talent: Where companies go wrong, and the key differences between staff augmentation and BPO.
• ​Compare global talent markets: A realistic look at costs and capabilities across the Americas, Middle East, Europe, India, Pakistan, and Africa.
• ​Team size & cost roadmap: Expectations and considerations for how big your tech team should be, and at what cost, at each product stage.
• ​Common pitfalls to avoid: Mis-hiring, team misalignment, and blurred ownership between product and engineering.
• ​Live Q&A: Candid insights from Hassan on how he scaled Carzaty globally using a lean, augmented team model.

​About DotZero:
DotZero is the MENA’s most trusted product studio and tech talent house — building, scaling, and backing globally recognized product teams including Careem, Retailo, Revibe, Heron.OS, Carzaty, Zofeur, and more since 2013.