All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Inside Saudi Arabia's AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
04 Nov 2025
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I believe connectivity is a human right.
I felt that this is a great opportunity to really build and enable a country like Saudi Arabia that has an incredible potential and capability to really build a digital champion and a digital hub for the region.
This is the first time I landed in a place where I feel I'm home.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Humane's Tarek Amin.
So I've been spending a lot more time in the Middle East, in the region. It's changing so dramatically year after year. And I'm going to be announced on the podcast two weeks ago. I'll be doing Foundry University in Riyadh on November 3rd, 4th, and 5th. And I'm really excited to partner with such a dynamic country.
Maybe you could fill us in on what's changed over the last five years in the region.
Well, thank you very much. 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.
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