Sources and About
The episode
- Salman Butt in conversation with Ahmed Attar, YouTube, 1:15:47.
- This site follows the episode's own 17 chapter markers, grouped into 8 chapters. Quotes are our translations from Saudi Arabic and are lightly condensed.
Sources cited
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| MBSC: Industry Advisory Board, Salman Butt |
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| Entrepreneur Middle East: Saudi unicorns, how Makkah-based Salla is helping merchants |
Home |
| KnowledgeX |
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| KAUST: KAUST and amplifAI health combine technologies for early diabetes detection (Jan 2024) |
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| MENA Startup Digest: Amplifai Health thermography study (Dec 2025) |
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| Middle East AI News: Amplifai launches AI thermal tool for athletes (Jul 2026) |
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| Zalando Engineering: replenishment engine publication (Jan 2026) |
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| IFLScience: EU tethered bottle caps |
3 |
| Wikipedia: Makridakis Competitions |
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| Makridakis, Spiliotis and Assimakopoulos (2022), M5 accuracy competition, International Journal of Forecasting |
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| The National: Saudi Arabia outlines new plan for R&D and innovation (Jul 2022) |
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| KAUST: KAUST startups surpass USD 1 billion raised (Nov 2025) |
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| McCarthy et al. (2023), The Science of Startups: the impact of founder personalities on company success, arXiv 2302.07968 |
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| Science News: AI may have solved one of math's biggest puzzles (Sep 2026) |
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