Kristie Neo

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Kristie Neo: Middle East & China Partnership Acceleration, Secret Power Corridors Reshaping Global Markets & AI Megaprojects – E646 · 23 Nov 2025 podcast

I mean, yeah, it's uh the Middle East is still a very, very much undercovered market.

And uh yeah, I I I expect in the next ten years or so you're gonna see a lot more there's gonna slowly we're gonna see a lot more coverage.

Um a lot of more interesting deals also coming out of this region over the next ten years, which were

I think it really depends.

I think I mean I can't say I'm an expert on this.

I mean you mentioned Qatar.

Qatar is actually quite different from Saudi Arabia.

And I do need to check exactly what kind of hiring laws there are in Saudi Arabia.

But if I'm not wrong, actually Saudi Arabia and some of the other um Middle Eastern markets, they actually have a pretty sizable population.

If you go to Saudi Arabia and you actually go to say you want to hire like an Uber

taxi, a good chunk of the taxi drivers are actually locals, which is not the experience when you go to Qatar or if you come to UAE, you go to some of these other markets, right?

Where you actually have a lot more Indians or Pakistanis or Nepalese who are drivers, right?

So which means that a lot of these

kind of like blue collar workers or lower skilled workers tends to be outskilled migrant workers that come from some of the neighboring states, most of them from South Asia actually or Central Asia to a certain extent.

But um in Saudi Arabia it tends to be the other way around.

And actually from what I understand, I may be wrong, but I don't have exact numbers.

I think they they tend to be quite protectionist in terms of their labor laws.

So I will be interested to see whether some of these like large

projects are actually built.

I mean I guess they would bring in um

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