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Bill Ford

Chairman & CEO, General Atlantic

Search every verified Bill Ford interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bill Ford, chairman and CEO of General Atlantic, said during a September 2026 appearance on Bloomberg This Weekend at the Qatar Economic Forum that the current environment is "one of the best times" in his three decades as a growth investor, citing accelerating innovation and a global rise in entrepreneurship. He noted that opportunities span the US, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, and that the firm has been developing its insurance and wealth channels while considering an IPO as one possible source of capital. Ford addressed geopolitical and technological trends, stating that elevated geopolitical and geoeconomic risks are "rewiring" global supply chains rather than reversing globalization, with no significant decline in global trade or capital flows. On AI, he said that every major tech cycle has experienced periods of overcapitalization and overvaluation, but he remains "long term very positive" about AI's investment potential. He added that safety concerns, similar to those faced by railroads, electricity, and the Internet, should be addressed through a mix of industry self-regulation and government regulation, but he does not expect such measures to halt AI's development.

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“Well, we're very focused on the energy transition. We think that that the sustainability energy transition is one of the great investment themes for the next 25 years. So we we actually recently acquired a sustainable infrastructure firm that invests in solar, wind, batteries, and transmission because we really believe in that opportunity set.”

“I believe it's overdone and and really what the issue for companies is they very often have two levels of regulation. You've got government in their home market, France, Germany, um, Italy. Then you also have EU regulation on top of it. Very hard for a company to navigate both and and make decisions and get and get things done. And they're operating in a very competitive context where capital has choices. They can pu”

“I think fintech is actually a very exciting area. They've always had great financial institutions and there's a tremendous amount of innovation happening. So we've done well at fintech around the world but I think it'll be particularly interesting here. also AI. I think that the region is making a real forward commitment to AI and has two of the key assets that are required for success. One is access to power and che”

“4% growth, a trillion dollars of non-oil growth expected to be added over the next three to five years. Entrepreneurial dynamism that's happening. One key fact if you look back the last five years there was only about $150 million per year of venture capital going into Saudi companies. Today there's over a billion last year actually 1.4 billion. You have an entrepreneurial ecosystem beginning to take hold. Um a numbe”

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