Tech’s Ethical Crisis Over Venture Capital Goes Beyond Saudi Arabia
Tech’s Ethical Crisis Over Venture Capital Goes Beyond Saudi Arabia
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 29, 20188m 22s
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Show Notes
The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate this month, which Turkish officials say was carried out by Saudi agents, has sparked a reckoning in Silicon Valley. The kingdom has poured billions of dollars into the tech industry, and a number of prominent startups, including darlings like Uber, WeWork, and Slack, may now need to grapple with the consequences of enriching a brutal regime.
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