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Tareq Amin

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433 total appearances

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

Yeah, I mean, for you to know, I'll tell you, we take things for granted in the US to a certain extent.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

Let's assume you're a startup here and you want to access compute.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

Let's assume you're a startup here and you want to access compute.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

It's as simple as obviously going to a hyperscaler and within 30 seconds you're ready to go.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

It's as simple as obviously going to a hyperscaler and within 30 seconds you're ready to go.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

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.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

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.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

One of the biggest surprises I had is lack of AI infrastructure.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

One of the biggest surprises I had is lack of AI infrastructure.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

I mean, I did not know that the ability for startups, companies to access AI infrastructure is a challenge.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

I mean, I did not know that the ability for startups, companies to access AI infrastructure is a challenge.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

I mean, it took, look how large Aramco is, took them nine months from the process of

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

I mean, it took, look how large Aramco is, took them nine months from the process of

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

purchase order, export control process, deployment, installation.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

purchase order, export control process, deployment, installation.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

That means we have hindered a company to really achieve its objectives by nine months.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

That means we have hindered a company to really achieve its objectives by nine months.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

So that was the first opportunity that I saw that we need to address in the country.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

So that was the first opportunity that I saw that we need to address in the country.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower

I tell you this story because this is how the Humane story started.