Interesting man.
"He sleeps until 11:00 but that's because he works until 06:00... A small band of his closest employees are only required to work six hours a day in his office but won't ever be seen on a coffee break. The prince thinks it's more efficient that way."
"Then there are the dwarves. Whichever press reports you choose to believe, one thing is for sure: he has lots of them on one of many luxurious estates and they are there for entertainment purposes."
"His pioneering spirit is evident in his company's employment of women, who make up two-thirds of his staff.... despite owning hundreds of cars, Donald Trump's old yacht and a fleet of jets, Prince Alwaleed's main obsession is often to use his financial empire to send out audacious social, political and philanthropic messages."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33370118
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone convinced Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud of the value in having a backup to human civilization, a culturally diverse well funded colony on Mars (or in habitats based in Martian orbit) so as to take advantage of proximity to the asteroid belt for purposes of mining (providing opportunity to fuel the growth of an extensive space based commercial economy, eventually leading to a humanity spread widely throughout the solar system).
ReplyDeleteYes it would. It would also be nice if someone could persuade the British government that spending $80 billion on a very slightly faster train line might not be the best possible use of taxpayer money.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Black I wonder, how does one go about communicating with a prince? I imagine that he has whole an entire cadre of communication assistants.
ReplyDeleteMmm.
That'll be a Google search for Sunday: "how to address an arabian prince".