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Trifid Media — production, brand and growth for founders and institutions across the UAE, the UK and Australia.
07 · About Mahdi · The operator behind the academy
Mahdi Shafiei.
4× Founder · Investor · Speaker · Founder & CEO, Trifid Media · Dubai · United Arab Emirates
4×
Founder
105K+
LinkedIn followers
500+
Connections
3
Markets · UAE / UK / AU
“Every book I write is the book I wish I'd had when I was where you are.”
— Mahdi Shafiei
The short version
Mahdi Shafiei is the founder and CEO of Trifid Media — a Dubai-built studio behind films that have moved governments and campaigns that have moved markets. He's been a founder four times over, an investor in the operators around him, and a speaker on the work that actually pays in 2026.
Trifid Academy is his answer to a question he kept getting asked: how do you actually do this?
The work, in lanes
Academy
Trifid Academy — courses, mentorship, kits, coaching, books and webinars for the operators coming up behind him.
Author
F*$? The Resume — first book in a series on portfolios, sales and the careers nobody is teaching out loud.
Investor
Backs operators in SaaS, content, agency and adjacent categories.
Track record
- 01
Founded Trifid Media — now serving 100+ brands across three continents.
- 02
Built one of the region's most-watched founder accounts on LinkedIn — 105K+ followers and counting.
- 03
Speaker on content, sales, personal branding and building from the Gulf.
- 04
Cum Laude, Honors in Advertising — Canadian University Dubai.
What he teaches
Content that earns the room
Not reach for reach's sake — reach that turns into clients, hires and offers.
Sales without the cringe
The discovery call, the proposal, the close, in language a real human would use.
Personal branding for operators
The narrow lane that makes you findable, hire-able and unignorable.
Building from the Gulf
A market most playbooks don't account for — and the reason a lot of them won't work here unedited.
Languages
- English — Full Professional Proficiency
- Arabic — Full Professional Proficiency