This photo opportunity of a Saudi Arabian prince and Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists taken during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (see comment) was an interesting snapshot in a number of ways. It is hard to imagine, say, German chancellor Angela Merkel meeting a similar women-only group of VCs, but then Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has just invested $3.5bn in one of the valley’s venture-backed successes, taxi-hailing company Uber run by Travis Kalanick.
Germany has generally eschewed such high-profile trophy deals…
