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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dubai comes up
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:22 unnamed speaker Then seeing the tailwind in 22 from GPT, still struggling to get orders, getting some business from the UAE, and all credit to the guy who said, I'm going to get on the plane, I'm going to Dubai, and I'm going to sell me some chips, right?
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I mean, he's launching in Dubai.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:23 unnamed speaker It's a terrible idea to leave SF in the age of AI, but I don't think it's as bad as going to Monaco or Dubai or weird stuff. 2 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:12 Harry Stebbings Did you flee to Dubai?
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:20 Andrew Feldman I, I think those have been writ large so clearly in the UAE with the rise of Dubai. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 53:45 Harry Stebbings And me moving to Dubai for the first time and buying my first house in Dubai. 4 times in the scene
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:27 Harry Stebbings They'll live in Dubai.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:31 Elias Torres Go to Dubai, go to all these other places.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:01 Harry Stebbings You know, you've got people in Dubai, you've got people in India,
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:18 Harry Stebbings How do you respond to the suggestions that you've moved to Dubai? 3 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:31 Shaun Maguire I think the place that's doing the best right now of anywhere is probably Dubai.
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:42 Nikesh Arora I was going to speak at my alma mater about, uh, uh, 35,000 people that were graduating and I landed in Dubai.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:05 Mudassir Sheikha Service was available for customers and it really gave us a flying start in Dubai, which is where we started.
- ▶ 20:14 Mudassir Sheikha You may have heard of this slingshot video in Dubai, where we basically threw a man from one tower in Dubai to another tower, and turned out that he misses, man, everyone thinks, including the intelligence in the city that someone has… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Mudassir Sheikha And today, if you come to Dubai, we have 20 plus services all the way from ride healing to food delivery, to grocery delivery, to home cleaning, to laundry, to payments.
- ▶ 41:54 Mudassir Sheikha We live in a region where, of course, you know, you can live in Dubai and use very different, but as soon as you step
- ▶ 46:56 Mudassir Sheikha I think in Dubai, in Abu Dhabi, in Saudi, there are local and regional exchanges that are open for business.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:13 Jason Lemkin It's just these massive, and so that's why they're all going to Abu Dhabi or Dubai, and they're all chasing these funds, and it's, it's, it's not as silly as it sounds, because the amount of capital they have to deploy is, it's, it's so…
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:13 David Allemann From, I think from Zurich to Dubai to Hong Kong, and then took the train because that was the cheapest option.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:10 Jason Lemkin I think it would have been enough if, if you, if you'd met halfway, you could have met in Dubai or met in wherever or something with the team, but you cut a corner and I cut corners during the boom too.
20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making
- ▶ 29:43 Will Ahmed We'd found it, but now we needed to get more capital to be able to accelerate it, and there was one round of financing, certainly, where we ultimately had to raise capital from, at the time, what was one of our largest customers, and they… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings And to our episode today, though, and the second element that makes today's show so unique, it was recorded at Boos Mena, an event hosted by Beko Capital, a phenomenal fund and team in Dubai, and it features my co-founder at Stride and…
- ▶ 27:48 Fred Destin New hire out of Salesforce in Kansas City can do as good a job as you today in Dubai as the founder of the company in carrying the message across.