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Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 46:25 Travis Kalanick We have to install these kits on these machines that are in the middle of the Amazon, or on the border of Saudi and Iraq, or like in these crazy wild places, um, and do it fast.
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 18:28 Amjad Masad They had to kind of go to Saudi and, and all of that, and so that, that's an example, um,
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 4:07 Ben Horowitz Builds our relationships led by Anne, which, uh, helps us have relationships in the right way with, uh, governments from, you know, ranging from Saudi Arabia to Japan to Mexico, um, and we've had, uh, you know, just great conversations…
- ▶ 17:34 Ben Horowitz A great example is, um, like, nobody's going to Saudi Arabia first. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:39 Anne Neuberger Saudi Arabia is modernizing and thinking about AI, infra, how it builds an innovation, entrepreneurial innovation base in order to compete globally.
- ▶ 23:37 unnamed speaker Exactly, like Saudi, yeah. 2 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 48:46 David Sacks Basically, the, 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.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 0:44 Keith Rabois Well, if you read, ah, actually, if you read, ah, Jared Kushner's autobiography, all you have to do is, like, quote, he quotes, you know, the Saudi, ah, king, says you're gonna bring peace to the Middle East, and it turns out to be correct.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 50:52 Ben Horowitz We've also, um, you know, the company had the foresight to expand into Saudi Arabia, uh, which is not, um, something that most entrepreneurs would think of.
- ▶ 1:06:10 Adam Neumann But before we talk about that, I think the going to Saudi was a very interesting thing. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:27 Adam Neumann So let's start with the real estate fund in Saudi. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:21 Adam Neumann We know it's great for Saudi.
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 0:38 Anish Acharya What happened is, um, the kingdom announced that they're going to build their own local hyperscaler or AI platform called Humane. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10 Anish Acharya A number of countries, the, with the kingdom being the one that's most recent, are, have been announcing sort of what we could think of as sovereign AI clusters.
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 3:04 Jensen Huang Nobody's gonna care about the, the ecosystem of Saudi Arabia more than Saudi Arabia.
- ▶ 22:58 Arthur Mensch So if you want to build a model which is not only good at Arabic, but also good at handling legal cases in Saudi Arabia, for instance,
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:23:33 Ben Horowitz And if you look at the kind of history of, you know, a country like Saudi Arabia, they're coming from a world of fundamentalism and, you know, a kind of set of values that they're, you know, they're trying to modernize, they, you know, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:23 Ben Horowitz You know, around the world, um, you know, the, the Middle East is very, very kind of subject and kind of on board with techno-optimism, um, the UAE, uh, Saudi, Israel, of course, um, you know, many, many countries out there are very… 2 times in the scene
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 1:00:30 Ben Horowitz Um, and then the final techno optimist question for us, uh, how do you assess the future economic and technological growth potential in the Middle East, particularly in light of initiatives such as the line in Saudi Arabia, urban…
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 50:44 Adam Neumann And actually one of the only places actually in Saudi Arabia where
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 13:40 Steve Smith Uh, just in the last month Saudi Arabia invested a billion dollars into Virgin.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 9:18 Jim Gilliam If I had been born in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, would, like, that have been me?