Rich Girl Misery

A16z’s first Saudi investment, Thmanyah’s executive reshuffle, the year of smoking, Dead Internet Theory, and more.

You claim that your favorite movie is Gone With The Wind, that you fully grasp the words of Khalid Alfaisal and Bader bin Abdulmohsen, that you enjoy an Abdulmajeed song shoved down your throat, and that the most fun you’ve ever had was on your second cousin’s 50-meter Benetti, where you spent half a day off the coast of Cap-Ferrat. But you secretly enjoy anime, your favorite songs are written and performed by Taylor Swift, and the most fun you’ve ever had was when you spent a summer semester at a public university where no one was familiar with your last name, a name that only gained social significance because someone married someone a million years ago, which was somehow able to convert into social currency that would later define the parameters of your existence.