Abu Dhabi
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2026 26 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
- OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation · Invest Like The Best
- Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
- Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models
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2025 33 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- EP8: How to build a Multi-Faceted Career: Actor, Producer & Entrepreneur ft Vishakha Singh
- WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
- Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Ari Emanuel’s "Anti-AI" Bet on Live Entertainment · Invest Like The Best
- AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425)
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2024 14 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- Ep7. The Great IPO Debate, Tesla Robotaxi v Uber, Tech Check | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk | All-In Summit 2024
- Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- Jennifer Prosek – Nailing the Narrative (EP.396)
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2023 22 mentions in 15 episodes 1 per episode
- E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
- E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Startup Acquisition Stories with JM Sanchez Co-founder of Studia
- Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
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2022 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Colin Smith and Farouk Miah - Empty Rooms: Investing in Africa (Capital Allocators, EP. 279)
- E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
- #AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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11 statements about Abu Dhabi, every show
Khosrowshahi: Driverless services with no onboard operators are running in UAE
“So you're going to see those services, you know, they are happening today. No vehicle operators in in Abu Dhabi, Dubai”
Abu Dhabi Committed $1 Billion to Build a Formula 1 Track and Race
“Abu Dhabi is the biggest. They commit to a billion dollar total F one investment over the coming years, including constructing a whole new track from scratch in the desert outside the city.”
Al Olama: UAE led global high-net-worth individual inflows for three consecutive years
“Look at the Henley index for the migration of high-network individuals. So the highest inflow of high-network individuals in the world was to the UAE and, you know, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi for three years in a row.”
Al Olama: UAE PMO offer cut previous salary in half
“When I worked in Abu Dhabi, my salary was, you know, around 10,000 dollars. When I got the offer in the Prime Minister's office, it was nearly half.”
Chamath: OpenAI and G42 partner on 5-gigawatt Abu Dhabi AI cluster
“It just hit the wire that OpenAI is partnering on a five gigawatt data center cluster in Abu Dhabi with G-forty-two.”
Gerstner: Abu Dhabi Announced 5GW AI Campus with Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle
“In Abu Dhabi, they announced a five gigawatt USAI, you know, it's a UAE USAI campus. It's an incredible architectural campus. It's in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenAI and Oracle. And think of it as almost like a global Stargate. So to put that perspective,…”
O'Reilly: Almost all fundraising clients are focused on the Middle East
“Almost all of our clients who are raising money are focused on the Middle East. And how to build relationships there. And we actually opened an office in Abu Dhabi partly to support that just because we have so many clients that care about it. We're doing the …”
Sheikha: Middle East Stock Exchanges Will Resolve Regional Tech IPO Constraints
“You can see a line of sight to that problem being solved. I think in Dubai, in Abu Dhabi, in Saudi, there are local and regional exchanges that are open for business. Some ideas have happened already and inshallah more will happen. So I feel that over time tha…”
BETA received UAE regulatory approval for commercial, for-hire flights
“We just got regulatory approval to do this over in the Middle East for hire, for commercial, making money... The first regulatory letter we have is from the UAE between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.”
Miah: Saudi Arabia and UAE show Africa's path to mainstream benchmarks
“In oh nine, Saudi where I lived and even Dubai, Abu Dhabi were Very much similar to Africa. Off benchmark. No one's really focusing on those areas. And fast forward 10 years, all of those markets became upgraded into the EM benchmark. Saudi Aramco got listed. …”