{"id":7504,"date":"2014-07-19T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2015-02-23T20:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:51:14","slug":"disrupting-facebook-with-prince-fahad-al-saud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/disrupting-facebook-with-prince-fahad-al-saud\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Interview with a Saudi Prince and Serial Tech Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fahad Al Saud is a social entrepreneur, innovative philanthropist and devoted humanitarian. A Stanford graduate in engineering, he joined Facebook as Analyst &amp; Head of User Operations Arabic in 2008, which earned him the distinction of being named Most Influential International Youth at the 2011 Arab Youth Media Forum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\u201ccenter\u201d\"><p>When you\u2019re disrupting, a person bringing change, 1st doing anything &#8211; you\u2019re always going to have people criticizing you.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/Jykjz&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;When you\u2019re disrupting, bringing change, 1st doing anything- you\u2019re always going to be criticized&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A frequent NATO lecturer on the Middle East\u2019s social media &amp; privacy issues, Fahad\u2019s contributions to the privacy and security sectors gave rise to his 2011 appointment as Ambassador of Privacy to the Arab World by Dr. Anna Cavokian, Canada\u2019s Information &amp; Privacy Commissioner. Currently, Fahad consults the Saudi government on cyber-technology and other youth focused capacity building programs within his home Kingdom; he has successfully introduced a number of ventures in online gaming and social networking, including KSA\u2019s first \u201cStart-up weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\u201ccenter\u201d\"><p>I want to see what I can learn from communities who have nothing, but who still have hope.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/Jylmu&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;I want to see what I can learn from communities who have nothing, but who still have hope.&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In October 2012, Playsino acquired Fahad\u2019s Popover Games, a multi-player heritage games company for Facebook and other mobile platforms. As co-founder, Fahad was pivotal in one of the first international sales of an Arab-owned social gaming company. His latest venture continues to align with his pride in the Middle East: NA3M (New Arabic Media), which represents a new age commitment to entrepreneurship in the region, through the support of technologically driven start-up companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this interview with Saudi Prince, Fahad F Saud, as he ebbs and flows between what Disney got wrong about being a prince, to the personal struggles of entrepreneurship and the power of tech to catalyze revolutions in his roll as Head of U.S. Arab Operations for Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":17929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1540,1504,1517,216,1515,1529],"tags":[1519,987,1397,1411,1592,1710,1522,1398,1749,366,290,337,311,1590,156,383,359,351,245,355,1696],"class_list":["post-7504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013_voyage","category-atsea","category-full_interview","category-interviews","category-leadership","category-technology","tag-sea","tag-at-sea","tag-bfp","tag-debunking","tag-equality","tag-full-interview","tag-human-rights","tag-intdev","tag-international-relations","tag-interview","tag-leadership","tag-media","tag-mentorship","tag-middle-east","tag-relationships","tag-starting","tag-tech","tag-transparency","tag-values","tag-vid","tag-voyage-13","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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