Meet Emran Gary, a UAE-based Saudi entrepreneur with an avid passion for horse riding. Gary has built five businesses in a span six years while working full-time jobs at top American firms, including Microsoft, Oracle, P&G, Unilever, and LinkedIn. Gary says Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 has spurred entrepreneurship in the country.
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00:00I mean, this time is going to go into world history rather than just Saudi history.
00:19It's because my generation, I believe, is going to be the first generation that will
00:25take up the global big seats.
00:29What I mean by Fortune 500 CEOs and stuff like that, I believe that from my generation
00:34in Saudi Arabia, there's going to be the first generation to get to these levels.
00:39Because the people before this didn't really get the chance to do that.
00:44This is from purely education and drive perspective.
00:49Because I see it in the level of education of the people in my generation and I see it
00:53also on their drive, their hunger.
00:58There is hunger that is for the first time seen in the masses in Saudi Arabia.
01:06And then this hunger and this drive, and mind you, you kind of touched bases on that, is
01:12that the majority of the country are young.
01:15We have above 65% youth.
01:20You're talking about people who are productive, people who are healthy, people who are capable,
01:25people who are hungry, and also the marital age or the age at which people are getting
01:32married has been pushed later.
01:35So you're talking about youth who are single for a lot of the cases, who are hungry, who
01:40are full of energy, and who really want to be on the top of the world, right?
01:47Put all of that and have a very clear, beneficial, and ambitious vision that is broken down to
02:02the smallest KPI and the smallest actionable plans.
02:10I believe it is the only combination that makes sense.
02:16If this vision, which I mean, I know there's a lot of skepticism in the world about like,
02:22would it actually happen or was it just this or would it be that, but let me tell you something.
02:28If this vision would have to happen anywhere in the world, it would happen in Saudi Arabia
02:34because for the first time, you're getting people who are wanting to take those skies,
02:41you know, for the first time.
02:42And you have the numbers when it comes to the young people.
02:47You have the right education, finally.
02:49You have the right leadership.
02:51You have the right security.
02:53You have the right, I mean, we now have our government processes much better than, I don't
03:01want to call names of the countries, but much better than the best countries.
03:13So people would just take the horses, go with our guides, you know, wearing all the safety
03:20equipments and they would just go out in the open.
03:23Now they can decide what they want to do, whether they want to visit nearby farms, whether
03:27they want to go on the racing track, whether they want to, you know, see where, where can
03:32their horses reach.
03:35It's up to them.
03:36So everybody creates their own adventure outside, right?
03:38And we do have some kind of different sightseeing and whether I will take you up in the high
03:43area where you see those electrical pools and you will see all of the desert from a
03:49high point of view.
03:51Or you can, I can go to an area where I can show you the wild gazelles.
03:55They're mostly, it's not a promise, but mostly I find them there every time I go.
04:01I kind of found out where they live.
04:04So I take people there and I'm like, you will probably see gazelles in about two minutes
04:08and then that's where you go.
04:10From my siblings, I'm the only one into business, right?
04:17Most of the majority of my family are into the medical field.
04:23I have plenty of doctors.
04:25Like it's, you know, in Eid right now, after Ramadan, it's going to look like a hospital.
04:30You know, when I'm, when I'm gathering with my, you know, siblings and even extended family,
04:37we're talking about uncles, aunts, they're all doctors.
04:40My mother definitely was the, let's say the education part in the family.
04:45She holds two PhDs and she was, you know, the Dean of a university at the end of her
04:53career and she has a nag for business, for numbers, for all these things.
05:01Now she's very careful, as she should be, but definitely is the most person that I can,
05:10you know, discuss business with is my mother, right?
05:14Because she's very, very highly educated, smart, witty, and also kinds of an anchor to me.
05:24If I'm a risk taker, she's kind of the anchor.
05:27She tells me all the watchouts, which I take, you know, into consideration, but never let
05:35them slow me down, basically.