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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 13:05 Matteo Franceschetti So we try to do, to do a campaign, an out of home campaign in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 Matteo Franceschetti At scale in 35 countries, including China, including Middle East, including Europe, where there are a lot of regulations in all of them, with a fairly tiny team.
- ▶ 55:16 Matteo Franceschetti I was literally there for a weekend because I had to be in the Middle East for work, so we just. 2 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 56:09 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) Argentina, Korea, the Middle East, like, these are leading brands that consumers identify with, have high household awareness, and are not, like, easily supplemented, and so I think there's value in those brands.
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:36 Patrick Forquer Uh, we have, we have great interest in the Middle East.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34:30 Rory O'Driscoll They've done some big deals in the Middle East with folks who've been willing to use the product. 2 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:17 Harry Stebbings Um, he's apparently been touring Singapore and the Middle East to charm some sovereign wealth funds to give him the money.
99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:28 Matthew Steckman Um, I think if, um, uh, I think if you play that forward to today, we're heavy participants in the current conflict in the Middle East. 3 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:53 Andrew Feldman We will have peace in the Middle East in our lifetimes.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:39 Jonathan Ross We have data centers in the United States, in Canada, in Europe, uh, in the Middle East.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:41 Rory O'Driscoll A non-Chinese region now, feeling the need for some kind of local champion, because the combination of hubristic talk about AI, coupled with the hubristic nationalism behavior of the US and China, I mean, if, if AI is terrifying, and these…
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:35 Jason Lemkin And he's explaining why we have to take money from the Middle East now. 2 times in the scene
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:25 Philipp Freise The Middle East is incredibly innovative and takes a large chunk.
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:50 Andrew Feldman There was a huge amount to learn, and, um, you know, I think you come out a much better company.
- ▶ 1:05:32 Andrew Feldman I think we're closer to peace in the Middle East than people believe.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:25 Oscar Pierre Uh, Talabat in Middle East, which actually recently IPO and they have 80%.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:28 Steeve Morin Um, maybe you can go the, um, Middle East route in which, you know, they sprinkle everything and they, you know, evaluate everything, but you know, that's not, you know, very sustainable, I would say strategy in the longterm.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:38 Matt Grimm And that's before we start talking about other partner nations like Japan or like Taiwan or Middle Eastern allies or any of that.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:03 Daniel Khachab People are investing into, into, into that energy production in the US, um, in, in the Middle East.
- ▶ 37:27 Daniel Khachab But so, so how I view is when I, when I look at, okay, so we got US, we got Europe, and then we got, let's say Middle East. 2 times in the scene
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:31 Harry Stebbings Do you think we'll see the Middle East erupt into a...
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Is Donald Trump the best chance we have of alleviating the soon-to-be World War III in the Middle East?
- ▶ 10:22 Harry Stebbings Is Donald Trump the best chance we have of alleviating the, either current World War III or soon to be World War III in the Middle East?
- ▶ 16:33 Shaun Maguire In, so what's happening in the Middle East, or where? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Shaun Maguire And at the time they had take the country of Sweden had taken more refugees from the Middle East than America.
Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:41 Billy Hult If you start with, like, American politics, and then get into the Middle East, and then get into kind of Russia, and then we have, you know,
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:43 Sami Inkinen We talked about how do you come up with, you know, peace in Middle East?
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:12 Nick Tomaino I'd ask him what he thinks of what's going on right now in the world in a lot of ways, whether it's in US politics, whether it's in the Middle East conflict, and, and how 2 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:55 Adi Levanon We're just in the Middle East group.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:04 Mudassir Sheikha And as you can expect, summer is a very slow time in the Middle East.
- ▶ 31:40 Mudassir Sheikha They'd done something in Russia and, and Middle East was in that list as well.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:34 Vinod Khosla You know, the Mideast and Africa have good demographics.
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:34 Shu Nyatta But, so to be clear, not all Middle Eastern money is the same. 2 times in the scene
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:39 Dara Khosrowshahi Was looking to build a mobility business, delivery business, and a payments business in the Middle East. 3 times in the scene
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:34 Cliff Obrecht Um, a lot of the students there were refugees from Africa, um, the Middle East, um, and parts of Asia, and these people, uh, ex-child soldiers, um, they'd been through the most horrific things.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:59 Harry Stebbings A more controversial one, but with, you know, commodity prices changing the way they have done, I've seen a massive rise in Middle Eastern interest from Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, with plenty of oil prices with three, 400% higher.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:58 Emil Michael I think we, instead of buying, um, Kareem in the Middle East, Postmates, Jump Bike, um,
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:58 Brad Gerstner I'm getting cold called from Middle East sovereigns who want to invest.
- ▶ 1:04:36 Brad Gerstner Um, saying no to a Middle East sovereign who calls me up and says, Brad, you ought to set up a structured convert fund.
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:45 Kevin Weil We went down in the middle of the day, Pacific time, middle of the night, uh, in, in the Middle East.
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
- ▶ 29:09 Harry Stebbings And then second, how did you get Middle East money when you just had weeks of runway left?
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 3:08 Avlok Kohli My early childhood was spent in the Middle East.
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 34:54 Dev Ittycheria It's also fairly easy to get to the Middle East and other parts of EMEA.
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 3:59 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi I was born and raised between the Bay Area and the Middle East, so always had roots in Silicon Valley, but my dad was an engineer, so we actually spent several years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but came back to the States, finished up…
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 20:19 Paul Berberian I love reading books of lifestyles that I would never encounter living in the Middle East or going to war or something like that.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 21:51 Dave McClure Right now, Southeast Asia and India are probably our two biggest priorities, but if I look at Latin America, uh, the Arab-speaking Middle East, uh,
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 14:21 Alex Bangash They go to Middle Eastern investors.
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 23:24 Chris Morton So we think we should be investing more in, you know, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Australia, Western Europe.
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 26:51 Niccolo De Masi And so same case would be India, South America, Middle East, you know, Southeast Asia, and so on.
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 17:50 Marvin Liao I think that education piece on the investor side and trying to sort of inject, um, you know, more expertise and more money locally for sort of VC investing, whether it's in Europe or Southeast Asia or even Africa or Middle East or Latin…
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 25:55 Matt Lerner Um, I guess besides the ones I've already mentioned, T-A-M-A-T-E-M, it's, uh, they're in the dojo now, and they're a Middle Eastern mobile games publisher. 2 times in the scene