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BigDeal 4
American Optimist 3
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Founder's Journal 1 
BG2 Pod 1 
We Live to Build 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
Big Technology 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Riyadh comes up on All-In, the a16z Podcast, 20VC, WTF is with Nikhil Kamath, TBPN
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 18:25 Ben Horowitz You know, it's the optimal place to live if you're an expat, you know, kind of moving to Riyadh, help develop, helping develop the economy, um, and it's something that just, it's not really possible without an effort like this.
Building Scalable Venture Strategies with James Paul Costa of Grapetree Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 40:18 Kristian Marquez And for everyone's benefit, James and I are off to Riyadh in April. 2 times in the scene
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 12:09 David Sacks I think something like 70% of Riyadh gets their water from desalination.
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:17 unnamed speaker Riyadh has been stepping up efforts to look for alternative sources of financing, including a rare loan deal.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:00 Matt Fitzpatrick I've, you know, if you look at my last, if you look at my last four, five weeks, um, Riyadh, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, London, um, uh, San Francisco, Boston, Singapore, now London again.
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 42:07 Jason Calacanis No, actually, I literally just got back from launching Founder University in Riyadh.
Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 52:06 Jason Calacanis Japan, Riyadh, where I've spent the last two weeks, are amongst the top choices.
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 1:22:08 Jason Calacanis So we did a deal with Sanabl to bring Founder University to Riyadh, and we were going to have 25 companies, and mostly Saudi nationals, and then teach them how to build companies and like the best practices from America.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 0:44 Jason Calacanis It's changing so dramatically, year after year, um, and I'm gonna be announced on the podcast two weeks ago, I'll be doing Founder University in Riyadh on November third, fourth, and fifth, and I'm really excited to partner with such a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:57 Jason Calacanis And there's a bit of a competition, is there not, between, you know, Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:28 Andrew Feldman It, it may well sort of be colored by the fact that I, I spend time in, in Abu Dhabi, and I spend time in Dubai, and I spend time in Riyadh, and I spend time in Doha.
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 12:20 Jason Calacanis They will tell you whether you're in Doha, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, we've got six or seven industries we really care about.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 8:12 Jason Calacanis And we decided our first city would be Riyadh.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 1:06:31 Adam Neumann And then you say Riyadh, and I think that's just not, uh, I think that's not your obvious thing, but again, and this is something else you talked about success, the division of success and failure being so small. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:41 Adam Neumann Riyadh has 7.8 million citizens is growing to almost ten million by 20 30.
How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:56 JoeBen Bevirt Riyadh, the capital city is, ah,
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 15:31 Anish Acharya Ben had a great, um, talking point to this at, I think he was at FII Riyadh last year, and he said something to the effect of, because these models, like we discussed earlier, are cultural infrastructure, you don't want to be colonized in…
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 58:47 Jason Calacanis To come to Riyadh, to come to UAE, you know, Dubai, Abu Dhabi specifically, so yeah.
AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 3:16 Brad Gerstner And I have to say it, it, it just was incredibly well received in Riyadh and Doha and Abu Dhabi.
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 8:46 Jason Calacanis He gave a speech at a Saudi US investment forum in Riyadh, where he powerfully outlined his vision
- ▶ 28:51 Ben Shapiro I know a number of businesses, obviously, that are working in Riyadh and doing wonderful work in Riyadh. 2 times in the scene
Picking the Hardest Business Model on Earth Has a Backdoor Exit
- ▶ 7:24 Saleem Renoui Uh, but most of the time when you talk to angel investors, these guys have already came to Dubai before they've been to Riyadh multiple times.
When Will Robot Deliveries Become the Default? | Daniel Singer on TBPN
- ▶ 3:29 Daniel Singer Yeah, I mean, just on the commentary of kind of hard cities to drive, I would love to see Waymo's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Augustus Doricko (Rainmaker) Talks Terraforming, Regulation Battles, and Climate Tech
- ▶ 7:37 Augustus Doricko Um, the super, like, uh, funny, crazy outcome is that I just, like, if Rainmaker was totally banned from the U.S., then we just double down on Riyadh, and then we, like, camp out there for five years and come back weathered and, and
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 37:26 Jordi Hays The Riyadh.
Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425)
- ▶ 10:22 Katie O'Reilly But when you think about a marquee conference, there's ones, like I would say, the Milken Conference in LA, maybe FII in Riyadh, Davos.
FBI Hostage Negotiator: The Art Of Negotiating To Get Everything You Want | Chris Voss
- ▶ 1:06 Chris Voss Well, more ways to help people understand why this works, and then, um, a talk I just gave in Riyadh, which by the way, Saudi these days is fascinating, like fascinating. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:30 Chris Voss And like when I'm again, Riyadh, you know, supposedly the Islamic Sharia police and the male dominated culture, which was them 15 years ago, which, you know, the current leader MBS says that ain't taking us into the future. 2 times in the scene
Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier
- ▶ 25:40 Omar Choudhry And it was available at such a bargain, like for context, if you're doing like Saudi Arabia is picking up now Riyadh and everything going on there.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 8:27 John Coogan Backer, Omid Malik, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh and Donald Trump's Jr.'s new business partner.
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 27:38 Jason Calacanis And this speaks to this decel versus acceleration movement that we see here in Silicon Valley, and this is what we see in Texas, Florida, UAE, Riyadh, Doha.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 12:39 David Friedberg They're asking assurances that Riyadh will use dollars, not yuan, to price oil sales, assurances that Saudi won't allow China to build military bases in the kingdom, and limitations on Saudi Arabia using technology developed by China.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 26:05 Jason Calacanis To your point, Shamath, I think, you know, I've been meeting with folks in Doha and Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and Dubai for the last six months, and I was talking to people this past weekend. 3 times in the scene
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 1:01:38 Ben Horowitz I was just in Riyadh and there was, um,
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 51:19 Dean Phillips But the settlement policy, the right-wing government, the distraction that the judicial reform initiative has created in that country, is made the conditions ripe, and by the way, having been in Riyadh recently too, you know, it was really…
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 1:24:50 Jason Calacanis I got to go to Riyadh for the first time.
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:40 Mudassir Sheikha Uh, it was a meeting that happened in Riyadh on the first FII.
Ep #3| WTF is E-commerce: Kishore Biyani, Udaan & Meesho Founders Reveal What Sells and What Doesn’t · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 34:54 Nikhil Kamath So, we both went to Riyadh. 5 times in the scene
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 57:11 Jason Calacanis I was actually asked to keynote the next one in Riyadh, which I'm debating doing.
Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:12 Yitz Applbaum But I have a set of kosher pots and pans at a great restaurant in Riyadh, so go imagine that.
- ▶ 21:38 Yitz Applbaum But I have a set of kosher pots and pans at a great restaurant in Riyadh, so go imagine that.
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 37:24 Ankur Jain It required trips to Riyadh, Dubai, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, meeting with every housing authority.
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:34 Jeffrey Katzenberg What time we were gonna get up in Riyadh to go to, go, go to a workout.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 27:52 Jeffrey Katzenberg What time we were going to get up in Riyadh to go to a workout.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:37 Emil Michael 60 days later, three and a half billion dollars in the bank, lots of meetings, uh, in New York and in Riyadh.
Could a ‘green upheaval’ embolden Russia?
- ▶ 6:21 Jason Bordoff There's relatively little that policymakers can do about energy price volatility in the near term, and we saw that recently with high gasoline prices in the United States that prompted the Biden administration to release oil from strategic…
20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- ▶ 3:59 Shabih "Shabby" Rizvi I was born and raised between the Bay Area and the Middle East, so always had roots in Silicon Valley, but my dad was an engineer, so we actually spent several years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but came back to the States, finished up…