I think when we talk about technology,
it's a completely different landscape
than any other sector of
the conventional sectors.
Technology really is something that does not
work with the conventional way of thinking
and investor thinks. When we took a stake 
in 500 Startups, for us, global reach
was very important and 500 Start
Ups is in basically every continent,
they have more than 19, 18 offices globally.
500 Startups is basically a
seed/venture capital platform,
and when we're looking at this kind of business,
those issues that you mentioned
are not really apparent.
I don't think this is going to affect the tech
sector, or our investment in 500 Startups.
When you look at the Silicon Valley
picture a bit more broadly,
they've been under a lot of pressure, whether
it'd be Mark Zuckerberg over at Facebook,
whether it'd be the Me Too movement,
How much influence has your
stake in 500 Startups really bought you
in terms of the running of that company?
You know, for us, 500 Startups is really a
partnership, so we've known the team for a while,
the 500 Startups team, we've known them for
a while, we've worked with them in the past,
we have been investors with them in the past.
For us, rather than influence and control, I think
it's more of a partnership and synergies,
especially that we as ADFG have our
own technology platform, as you know,
which does incubation, which also does in-house technology development and so forth.
And Jassim, over at 500 Startups, of course the
company really became in some ways
a poster child of the problem of sexual
harassment allegations in the VC world,
in Silicon Valley, do you think with the
leadership changes underway here,
that is in the past and do you think more
broadly speaking when you look at the
culture in tech globally that
things are changing?
I think when we talk about 500 Startups,
Christine Tsai is a really great leader for that firm.
She is a very important figure, in my opinion, in the VC world.
She's done a great job,
she's a co-founder of 500 Startups.
I think 500 Startups is in a
new phase of its life,
and I think any problems that it
had in the past are cleared.
