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255. Saudi Arabia x Silicon Valley (ft. Jonathan Guyer)

This Machine Kills

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Military Tech Startups Underwritten by Saudi Sovereign Wealth

A company like Andoril, Palmer Lucky's kind of military tech unicorn, which I think is valued at eight or $10 billion last time I checked. Is being indirectly funded through one of these venture capital kind of laundering groups, you know, underwritten to some extent by Saudi dollars. That's a difficult thing to hear for me as a journalist who has friends and family in the kingdom. It doesn't feel like a lesser of two evils to me.

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