Tareq Amin
speaker
433 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Nov
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First of all, I must say it's the first time I did an event that's only 45 minutes away from my home.
My flight from Riyadh obviously was 23 hours, but just to give you some context, I was born in Amman, Jordan before coming to the US to finish my studies and progress in my life and my career.
So I moved from Tokyo to Saudi Arabia, but this is the first time I ever worked in the region.
And I didn't know what to expect.
Sometimes it depends on your perspective on how you look at the world.
I wanted to really discover and understand everything I used to hear
massive opportunity of transformation and the diversification on the economy.
You know, my first observation is really started with discovery of how amazing the people were in terms of hospitality, welcomeness.
I really felt like I'm back home.
It felt very, very different feeling to me.
The second thing, the population is awfully young and hungry, and hungry for new things and new advancements.
So, to me, it was really a pleasant surprise because what I was really worried about and what everybody keeps talking about
Maybe Tarek have done great things in his life, talent and opportunity may be a big challenge in his new venture.
And it was remarkable in every aspect, whether you look at the government side, in terms of society, the transformation, it has changed dramatically.
It's really, really an area that I feel the opportunity is remarkable.
and the embracement of the society towards looking at the future in which digital and AI is fundamental to their transformation.
Yeah, I mean, for you to know, I'll tell you, we take things for granted in the US to a certain extent.
Let's assume you're a startup here and you want to access compute.
It's as simple as obviously going to a hyperscaler and within 30 seconds you're ready to go.
So this story is fascinating because my first discovery, let's say, in the role I was in at the time, I was hired to really run a subsidiary of Aramco, a new company that was intended to diversify out of its core business in which digital and AI was a really core component of it.
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