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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Cairo comes up on 20VC, How I Built This, Acquired, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, Innovators & Investors
S2E7: Tech, Trade & Trust: India–Netherlands and the Long Game ft. Ewout De Wit
- ▶ 43:34 Ewout De Wit Uh, but I, I also lived in, in Cairo, in Egypt.
How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work
- ▶ 27:26 Suzanne El-Moursi So I am born and raised in Cairo, Egypt.
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 23:20 Shane Parrish Dyson arrived in Cairo expecting that the Egyptians wanted modifications to the boat, such as armoring it, like all the other militaries had requested.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:13 Elias Torres See, the things that people complain in the United States are, are like, not that hard compared when you, I just came back from Cairo last night.
- ▶ 10:18 Elias Torres Like, you know, we're in London here, the whole family, and I said, you guys want to go to Cairo for the weekend?
- ▶ 53:42 Elias Torres We just went to Cairo together.
- ▶ 57:59 Harry Stebbings And I don't mean that badly, but you mentioned Cairo, you mentioned Amsterdam, you mentioned the nice things that they have. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:07 Elias Torres Look, I just, I just came back from Cairo, and I got to learn about the Egyptian civilization.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Can Generative AI Transform Education? Immersion Ed's Bold Pitch
- ▶ 1:59 Chad Wilson Things clicked for me though, when I was teaching remotely during the pandemic, and one of my favorite students Cairo says, yo, Mr.
JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 47:07 Harish Bhat And he says, I was so relieved and happy when the flight landed in London after a stopover at Cairo and saw that all the passengers were delighted.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:16:51 Ben Gilbert It is also kind of a contrast to what was going on in a different part of Microsoft, where there was the codename of Cairo for a very ambitious next-generation operating system.
- ▶ 3:17:03 Ben Gilbert Now, mind you, NT had already come out in 1993, so Cairo is sort of this general bucket of maybe it's post-NT, maybe it's part of NT, but this is like a really sophisticated, crazy set of technologies that we're gonna eventually bake into…
- ▶ 3:17:51 Ben Gilbert We should say Cairo never shipped, so there's a lesson in that.
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 2:04 Shawn Wang Cairo.
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.
HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
- ▶ 15:37 Shiza Shahid Based in Dubai, I worked that year in Cairo, in Doha, in Abu Dhabi, all over the region. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Guy Raz You drop everything, I guess, and you fly from Cairo, where you were working at the time, to the UK where Malala is receiving treatment.
20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- ▶ 6:08 Deena Shakir Lowly intern with the BBC's Washington Bureau, and it was covering President Obama's speech in Cairo in 2009 that ultimately led me to abandon my nascent aspirations for journalism, and even my, well, I think there was a lot more to it,…
Apple's metronome
- ▶ 2:25 Benedict Evans And trying to release a new operating system was, you know, that Microsoft had Cairo, and then they had Longhorn, which were these sort of big projects to do a next generation operating system that were complete failures.
Kimbal Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, The Kitchen, and Launching His First Company with Elon · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:43 Kimbal Musk He, he, uh, was a winner of the Cape to Cairo race, where you take a car and you basically just make it from Cape Town to Cairo.
Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
- ▶ 13:45 Wael Ghonim Uh, the CEO of Google Jigsaw was visiting Cairo, and it was, uh, merely a coincidence, I swear, because the, his plan to visit was many months before, uh, it was settled many months before, um, and his name is Jared Cohen, so, uh, he, uh,…
- ▶ 38:19 Alex Kantrowitz Cause you, you know, they were spray painting things, Facebook on the walls in Cairo after the revolution.
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:00 Shola Akinlade And then there was an opportunity to go to Egypt, Cairo, actually. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
Genius Way to Go From Freelance to $100k/Year with Jamie Turner of Sixty Marketer Episode 22
- ▶ 4:45 Jamie Turner I was in Cairo not too long ago.