Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Moe Katib is the founder and CEO of One (withone.ai), an enterprise-level infrastructure platform that gives AI agents authenticated, reliable access to hundreds of software applications and verified actions.
Moe Katib and Village Global GP Anne Dwane go back to the stories that shaped him as a founder and builder. They cover growing up in Damascus in an entrepreneurial family, the chicken factory side business he ran as a kid that taught him his first lesson about finding a problem and solving it, the water pump automation device he built as a teenager that got stolen by a government-connected company, and the moment at a Canadian school where he cut off a colleague's old system entirely and watched her go from screaming at him to taking her first vacation in two years.
[00:00] Growing up in Damascus in an entrepreneurial family
[00:49] The chicken factory job his dad scripted to be as hard as possible
[02:55] Selling pre-cut packaged chicken before it was a thing
[04:16] Building a water pump automation device as a teenager
[06:55] His design gets stolen by a government-connected company
[08:56] Why he left Syria and immigrated to Canada
[09:21] His first software product: building a school management system from scratch
[10:37] The woman who worked 7 days a week and refused to use the new system
[11:41] The day he cut off the old system entirely
[12:20] She came in screaming. Two months later she took her first vacation.
[12:41] The lesson: people don't distrust the system, they distrust an unproven system
This is an excerpt from our full conversation with Moe Katib. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/WzCh5PxDkEs
Moe Katib is the founder and CEO of One (withone.ai), an enterprise-level infrastructure platform that gives AI agents authenticated, reliable access to hundreds of software applications and verified actions.
Moe Katib and Village Global GP Anne Dwane go back to the stories that shaped him as a founder and builder. They cover growing up in Damascus in an entrepreneurial family, the chicken factory side business he ran as a kid that taught him his first lesson about finding a problem and solving it, the water pump automation device he built as a teenager that got stolen by a government-connected company, and the moment at a Canadian school where he cut off a colleague's old system entirely and watched her go from screaming at him to taking her first vacation in two years.
[00:00] Growing up in Damascus in an entrepreneurial family
[00:49] The chicken factory job his dad scripted to be as hard as possible
[02:55] Selling pre-cut packaged chicken before it was a thing
[04:16] Building a water pump automation device as a teenager
[06:55] His design gets stolen by a government-connected company
[08:56] Why he left Syria and immigrated to Canada
[09:21] His first software product: building a school management system from scratch
[10:37] The woman who worked 7 days a week and refused to use the new system
[11:41] The day he cut off the old system entirely
[12:20] She came in screaming. Two months later she took her first vacation.
[12:41] The lesson: people don't distrust the system, they distrust an unproven system
This is an excerpt from our full conversation with Moe Katib. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/WzCh5PxDkEs
