Strategic advisor to boards, owners & CEOs | GCC growth, technology, autonomous mobility & investment | Founder, Freely.
Dubai, UAE
Joined April 2015
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Stay agile now. Be ready to accelerate in Q1.
Dubai’s recovery could arrive faster than many companies expect. The board challenge: protect liquidity through Q4 without cutting the capability needed for a rebound.
Read the full perspective:
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#UAE #BoardStrategy
Dubai could be back to business by Q1.
Our weighted scenario suggests activity could return to Q4 2025 levels by year-end—and move slightly above them in Q1 2027.
Not a promise. A signal to stay agile now and be ready to accelerate.
#Dubai #UAE
ALT Chart showing Dubai business activity indexed to Q4 2025 equals one hundred. Weighted scenario shows activity weakening in 2026, recovering toward that level by year-end, and slightly above in Q1 2027; forecast periods are illustrative scenarios.
Self-driving was the “easy” part.
My illustrative U.S. scenario grows from ~8,000 AVs in 2026 to 800,000–2 million by 2031, with 2027 as the inflection.
Durable winners combine lower cost per mile with manufacturing and operating models that scale.
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🤖 Made with AI
ALT Illustrative U.S. commercial autonomous-vehicle growth path from approximately 8,000 vehicles in 2026 to 800,000–2 million by 2031, with 2027 marking the growth inflection point and downstream constraints in manufacturing, operations, charging and capital.
The real opportunity in AI is not to automate the business you have.
It is to reimagine what that business could become.
Most companies are still improving the old model. The larger opportunity is to create a better one. A short thread.
A demo is not a business. Reimagining a business still requires commercialisation, dependable systems and institutional discipline.
The competitive divide will be between those using AI to improve the old model and those using it to create a better one.
For boards, owners and chief executives, the defining question is not simply how AI changes the way the organisation operates.
It is what business the organisation now has the opportunity to become.
My new Perspective: ianohan.com/perspectives/rei…
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BREAKING: President Xi stuns the room saying to Trump: “We should be partners, not rivals" 🇺🇸 🇨🇳
I NEVER in a million years would have thought Xi would say something like that
The Deep State is shaking right now
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BREAKING: Today, Tesla will hit 10,000,000,000 miles driven on full self driving. This is a huge milestone and should be celebrated accordingly right on the verge of fully autonomous release. No other company even comes close to this amount of accumulated miles.
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UAE skies are bustling with dense air traffic once again.. a powerful testament to strength and stability witnessed by the world 🇦🇪
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Israel’s laser defense system was installed in the UAE 🇦🇪 according to a report in the @FinancialTimes. It shoots down drones and missiles at $3 a shot and never runs out of ammunition.
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BREAKING: Senior UAE official Reem Al Hashimy rips into Iran.
“We’re everything that they’re not.
We used our oil wealth to build a powerhouse. They used theirs for nuclear programs, missiles, proxies.
We became a global player, they’re a pariah state.”
