T100 MBA Grad

This is a bit misleading. ZAYNAH and AMAD tankers have been anchored for a day but their draft are unchanged at 11 meters, which suggests they have not loaded anything yet. KARAN has left the Ras Tanura anchorage an hour ago to go back to mooring nearby, without loading cargo in the barely 12 hours it was at the loading jetty. This looks like bunkering operations to me.

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

BREAKING: Emirates International Investment acquired a minority stake in Joe & the Juice at a $1.8 billion valuation. Growth equity firm General Atlantic is still the majority shareholder.

I lived in Kuwait 1977-78. It was the lively center of the Gulf, while Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Qatar were parochial outposts. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Although the West liberated Kuwait in 1991, Kuwait has never come back. The same is now likely for Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Qatar.