Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary says Saudi Arabia is widely misunderstood and urges people to visit and discover the country.
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00:00Mr. O'Leary, a few years ago, you made a comment that I'd like to revive.
00:03You said Saudi Arabia is the most misunderstood country in the world,
00:09and I think things have changed since.
00:11I'd love to hear your opinion on your impression of how the world sees Saudi Arabia now.
00:16I don't think it's changed that much.
00:17I think people have come to the conclusion that trying to understand the kingdom by reading reports, it doesn't work.
00:27You have to get on a plane and go there.
00:29You have to actually, as I like to say, marinate in it.
00:33You have to go there, and that's very, very important.
00:37And I think I tell everybody that's interested in it, I say, look, there's only one thing to do.
00:44You've got to take 10 days and go to Riyadh and just understand that whatever your perception was, it's going to come back changed.
00:54And everybody that's done that, that I've talked to, said you were 100% right.
00:57So I would advocate that the government have a policy of making it as easy as possible for investors from every jurisdiction to go there,
01:07because my first experience was completely different than what I thought it was going to be,
01:12and it got reconfirmed every time I go.
01:16And what's amazing is there's so much change.
01:19Even in six months, you can see it.
01:22And so, you know, I went to the real estate conference recently.
01:25I was blown away.
01:26I mean, it was just massive.