Saudi Arabia

“Just in the last month Saudi Arabia invested a billion dollars into Virgin.”

“And so it's incredibly positive to see really the leading Middle Eastern countries like Saudi going, you know, we're not only joining the future, we're leading the future. And so I think that, that, that may be One of the best things that's happening in the en…”

“What happened is the kingdom announced that they're going to build their own local hyperscaler or AI platform called Humane.”

“We raised it from actually 33 different investors. We put our own equity. We got debt from the local bank. We bought these five properties. It was about a billion SAR, which about three hundred million dollar fund.”

“70% of Saudis are 40 year old or younger.”

“Starting with the Gulf states in October of twenty-twenty-three. Basically, the Gulf states, you know, I'm talking about countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, long-standing U.S. Allies, they weren't allowed to buy chips from the U.S.”

“So we're able to take a company like Flo, Adam Newman's company, bring him to Saudi Arabia, introduce him to the right people in the government, introduce him to the right people in business, introduce him to the right investors,”

“Saudi Arabia is going from this, ah, kind of tribal, ah, different kind of society, I would just say, to kind of a modern, you know, like, highly civilized, you know, player in the modern world and full ally of the United States.”

“They actually had a lot of trouble fundraising in Silicon Valley. They had to kind of go to Saudi and all of that”