Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It's going to be a great week, five great episodes of this

week in startups. Then I'll do an all-in. So I'm still at six a week and still trying to

get out on that mountain to do 90 minutes of skiing a day. Yes, I broke 30 days. Last year's

record was 40 days. Today I'm going to try to do this quick show and then I'll get out on

the slopes with my daughters. But some really important news at the top of the show.

We're going to talk about the obsession with building cities and Saudi Arabia joining

that fray with something they're doing called the line. It's basically a giant wall,

walled city. Why is this coming up? Well, on Friday, there was a little

reported on. Perhaps nobody reported on it. Video that was released on the internet.

It's only got 900 views and it's Ben Horowitz and Mark Andreessen, two of the greatest

entrepreneurs and investors of our time. Obviously from Andreessen Horowitz with Adam Newman,

the real estate savant who brought you we work and is now doing company called Flow. That is

going to be living and working for young people and maybe owning some ownership in your home.

Well, the three of them did a talk at Saudi's startup conference in Miami and they were

effusive in their praise of Saudi Arabia. What does this mean for our industry? Is this the

beginning of another long relationship like the one we have with China with massive investment

in the US or the one we have with Russia and then what are the dynamics of a deep

meaningful relationship on a business level and a startup level and an entrepreneurial level

with an authoritarian country. We've had this happen with Russia, Saudi Arabia and China.

So let's have that discussion. Let's have a candid discussion. Then we do a fantastic

interview with the CEO and founder of a company called Biofluff. What does Biofluff do?

Well, they are planned based far for the fashion industry. It's a fascinating conversation

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