Egypt, every mention
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The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 10:29 Ben Horowitz Um, they're the chosen people, and they are promised this land, uh, and in particular, you know, the kind of most famous story about it, of course, is, uh, when the Jews are slaves in Egypt, and then, 2 times in the scene
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 9:48 Chris Schroeder I mean, the fact is, when you look at the population in a lot of even the larger countries, like places like Egypt and Indonesia and all, a large swath of the population is still in a Cairo or in a Jakarta.
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 34:56 Bryan Caplan And normally when third world countries spend a lot of money on tertiary education, often you, like, you wind up getting something more like the Egyptian result, where I think the government employs like 80% of college graduates.
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 13:28 Dick Costolo And so there was this weird, you know, time period where a bunch of us out here had to start to realize, wow, we're like in the thick of these international discourse and political conversations, and Egypt, you know, during the Arab… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 2:31 Noah Smith There was probably someone in Egypt saying like,
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 11:21 Matt Spence There was the fall of the president of Egypt, and at the same time, the president was taking a trip to Latin America.
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 20:06 Taggart Matheson That car needs to work in a sandstorm in Egypt and has to work in a snowstorm in Juneau, Alaska.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 34:08 Alex Rampell It's like, okay, well, I wish you had blocked that, but you haven't, because I'm clearly not flying to Egypt on Egypt Air.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 13:38 Chris Schroeder Some kid five years ago would come home and tell his parents in, uh, Egypt that I'm dropping out of college because I've got this great idea for something I'm going to call Facebook, and trust me, six hundred fifty million people are going…
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 32:18 Marc Andreessen Um, a good friend of mine, Chris Schroeder, who used to work in the State Department and then ran a big internet company, um, spent two years in the Middle East, and he has, he's highly networked in the, throughout Egypt and Syria and…
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 18:35 Marc Andreessen Um, so he's a former internet CEO and State Department official who traveled around the Middle East for a year and a half and has friends in all these countries, you know, Jordan and Egypt and all throughout the, Syria and all throughout…
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 24:13 Marc Andreessen The most vivid example is a good friend of mine, Chris Schroeder, wrote an entire book over the last three years called Startups Rising, which is a story of high-tech entrepreneurship in the Middle East, and he basically traveled all…