Egypt

“Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Qatar look like they're hedging. They know they're reliant on America, but they're not going to be so dependent that they're vulnerable because of the lack of the leadership in two wars, Iran and Iraq.”

“The more governments start to play a role in these free markets, the worse it gets. We've seen it with India with the way that they shield their farmers from global prices. We see it with Egypt putting a 90 dollar ton export duty on their nitrogen products.”

“The goal of Hamas is not to replace Israel with the Palestinian Authority. Their goal is an Islamic Caliphate all over the Middle East to replace Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and all other Arab countries with the most repressive of Islamic regimes.”

“It's not alleged. It happens.”

“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. The second or third cities there are large, for sure, but not in the same …”

“So South Africa would be a more typical US or UK style shareholder list. So often the pension funds are the largest, the big asset management firms are also in the top three, top five, top seven. It's a very institutional heavy shareholder list. Whereas when y…”

“Someone from the State Department reached out, and this is a public story, so I'm not saying anything that can't be said. Someone from the State Department reached out and said, wait, wait, you can't go down at, you know, two a.m. Pacific. That's the middle of…”

“So in Egypt, there is around 3.9 million enterprises from small to SMEs and larger enterprises.”

“I think your secret sauce, if you start to like take off is because you're focused on Egypt and companies like Finnmark and pride don't exist in Egypt yet. And so if you can focus on getting Egypt founders signed up or Egyptian founders signed up for your prod…”

“I would not be throwing countries like Turkey and Egypt and Saudi Arabia out of our coalition in Cold War II because we don't like the nature of their governments.”

“The first version of HubSpot was built by Dharmesh and these two guys in Egypt that he found through found online. Put a test out there. And Far Maui, and I forgot the other guy's name, and they built, like, the prototype of, those three built the prototype of…”

“They are asking them for around 35 percent on order.”

“We were, we had global ones in our market, but they are, they quit Egypt because Talbot acquired all the market share entirely.”

“After three days of creating the Facebook page, about a 100,000 people were on it. And the page grew, like to when the time, the revolution kind of started the page had about 405 100,000 members, and at the time, in 2011, that was, like, a huge number”

“I was an anonymous admin. I was hiding my identity. I did not stay at my mom's place on 25th of January because, you know, I was living in Dubai, so I would stay with my family, but I didn't. I stayed in one of my friend's offices. I changed my phones. I broke…”

“Egypt, you know, during the Arab Spring, we sort of started in Tunisia with people organizing protests on Twitter, and they were able to organize protests on Twitter because they were writing under pseudonyms and not, you know, their actual names, so people we…”

“It was one room in an apartment that had three rooms and the other two rooms. Were occupied by another couple, and by a hooker and her pimp, and, ah, it was the five of us, and my father basically had a job, ah, selling pencils and erasers door to door, and so…”