Prince Alwaleed bin Talal at his office in Riyadh on April 23.
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Prince Alwaleed Plots Next Act With Billions Riding on Elon Musk
The flamboyant Saudi billionaire investor is back in the spotlight, emboldened by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is back.
The flamboyant billionaire founder of Saudi conglomerate Kingdom Holding Co., in a literal sense, never really went anywhere. But since he was caught up in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 2017 detention of hundreds of the country’s elite in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, he has laid uncharacteristically low.