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Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:16 Marc Andreessen Um, so I will, um, I will say, like in the last five, I should say this, in the last five years, um, it's the heads of, I would say in particular UAE, um, Saudi, um, Qatar, uh, Kuwait.

20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition) Jan 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:32 Simon Squibb I think that, again, it's so, the thing that people, okay, so I, I went to Saudi recently, as a country that a lot of people have an opinion on, I wanted to go see for myself what it was, what was going on there, and the guy that picked us…

OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:35 unnamed speaker It's an oil company in Saudi Arabia.

Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02:02 Andrew Feldman Having visited and spent time now in, in the UAE, in Saudi, in Qatar, I, I think the returns to being, ah, to moderation, the economic gains, ah, someone said, we're, we're too busy to hate right now. 2 times in the scene

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 39:16 Jonathan Ross In Saudi Arabia, there are gigawatts of power, and they're building out data centers for that. 3 times in the scene

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:46 Harry Stebbings The Saudis will give him more money than he needs with this new chapter, this new challenge that needs funding.

Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:05 Jonathan Ross Ah, the, the recent deployment we did in, in Saudi Arabia,
  • ▶ 38:06 Jonathan Ross Well, and, and this is why we've partnered with, um, Aramco and this new entity in Saudi Arabia, because they have an enormous, um, ability to fund this over the long term.

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:04 Shervin Pishevar Um, you know, Travis was working on ideas like self-driving, uh, and automation, and, and, uh, he was very, he was, he was in pole position at the time, and I saw him speak in Saudi Arabia at the FII a couple months ago, and they asked…
  • ▶ 1:06:09 Shervin Pishevar Massa in Saudi, one of the things he talked about is he, he did his calculations, and the numbers for me make a lot of sense, um, that basically you need to spend, you know, trillions, single digit trillions, and then you're gonna get nine…

Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 30, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:27 Donald Tang You know, if you, uh, buy things from us in UK versus people buying things from us in Saudi Arabia, by the way, we have a huge, very, very grateful that we have a very good following in Saudi Arabia, for example. 2 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 Aug 12, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 8:29 Shaun Maguire To take that even one step further, like, there's obviously ancient rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:15 Shaun Maguire Like, this is going to sound crazy, but basically you force a ceasefire, uh, between Israel and Hamas in exchange for a peace agreement with Saudi, between Saudi and Israel. 3 times in the scene

Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:45 Dax Dasilva Uh, during our Dallas, uh, certification camp, our term sheet went from twenty five million to thirty million because they were like, wow, you got a massive community of people around from like Saudi Arabia and like in like Europe and…

Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 12, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 31:46 Harry Stebbings Can I ask some kind of harder questions in the way that, like, you know, I think people have been like, and that's why you never take Saudi money, and we've seen a lot of kind of vitriol against, like, Saudi. 4 times in the scene

Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 4, 2023 · 2 mentions

Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2023 · 1 mention

Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:29 Sheel Mohnot Uh, I think there are LPs that have withdrawn quite a bit, but then you see everybody's in Saudi Arabia right now. 3 times in the scene

David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:30 Harry Stebbings I think we're all focused on the minutiae, and it's like, hang on a minute, the Saudi Iran deal that was struck in the last few weeks means that the US dollar has kind of been unpegged as the reserve currency for oil that it's had for so…

Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; How I Lost $400M on Netflix; Bill's 10-Year Long | E991 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 20, 2023 · 1 mention

Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 25, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:57 Emil Michael The public investment fund in Saudi, as you know, when the new crown prince sort of took over in Saudi, his thesis was, we're going to modernize this economy. 3 times in the scene

20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst May 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:46 David Fialkow The dissident, the dissident's a story we made two years ago, which is how the Saudis killed Khashoggi, and out of that story came two things. 2 times in the scene

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 Sep 10, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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…
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