In today's episode of ALGO Vik, Alex, and I discuss the launch of our Creative Content for Brand Building Bootcamp, Elon Musk on the All-In podcast, the CEO of Instagram doing a ted talk, and Netflix potentially introducing adverts in Q4 of 2022.  

Chapter highlights include:  

00:00 Intro 

00:58 Creative Content for Brand Building Workshop and Bootcamp 

8:19 Spencer lodge’s birthday dinner 

19:16 Raj’s UK Plans 

23:44 Will Netflix Introduce Advertising? 

43:15 Instagram’s New Update 

52:39 Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri’s Ted Talk 

1:17:31 Elon Musk on the All-In Podcast 

1:21:24 Shout outs   

Connect: 

https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha 

https://www.instagram.com/vikmorjaria 

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe 

https://www.rajkotecha.com/ 

Search for THE RAJ KOTECHA SHOW on Spotify and Apple Podcast too.

On today's episode of ALGO Vik, Alex, and I discuss the return of My Friends Your Friends, Russell Peters selling out Dubai, Maroon 5 in Abu Dhabi, and Elon’s Twitter deal being on hold.

Chapter highlights include:  

00:00 Intro 

1:27 The Return of My Friends Your Friends  

18:34 Neil’s work experience  

25:52 Russell Peters sells out Dubai  

38:39 Taco Stars 

40:10 Maroon 5 in Abu Dhabi  

47:33 Creative content workshop 

48:29 Elon’s Twitter Deal on Hold  

52:06 Are #Hashtags Dead? 

59:15 Instagram Launches NFT’s  

1:04:11 Emirates Launches Premium Economy  

1:12:22 Content Recommendations (Kendrick Lamar, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pete Davidson)  

Connect: https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha 

https://www.instagram.com/vikmorjaria 

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe 

https://www.rajkotecha.com/ 

Search for THE RAJ KOTECHA SHOW on Spotify and Apple Podcast too.

Another great episode of ALGO. Check out the highlights below for everything we spoke about.

Chapter highlights include:

00:00 INTRO

2:34 ALEX IS BACK

5:20 NEPHEW BOYS NIGHT

10:45 BAR DU PORT

13:29 AQUAFUN

16:14 BEST PIZZA PLACES IN DUBAI

19:15 PAVILION AT THE BEACH (JBR)

23:20 AQUAVENTURE

26:42 MAISAN 15

28:23 DELIVEROO DRIVER COMPENSATION

38:00 DAVE CHAPPELLE ATTACKED

46:36 DRAKE'S $400M UNIVERSAL DEAL

1:03:07 MY FRIENDS YOUR FRIENDS CO-HOSTS

1:08:02 CCA BOOTCAMP

1:09:06 CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS

1:09:27 GARYVEE ON IMPAULSIVE

1:11:25 LET US NOT TALK FALSELY - NAVAL RAVIKANT

1:12:42 BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY ANNUAL CONFERENCE

1:26:01 SHOUTOUTS

REGISTER FOR MY FRIENDS YOUR FRIENDS:

https://myfriendsyourfriends.com/

Connect:

https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha

https://www.instagram.com/vikmorjaria

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe

https://www.rajkotecha.com/

Search for THE RAJ KOTECHA SHOW on Spotify and Apple Podcast too.

Another great episode of ALGO. Check out the highlights below for everything we spoke about.  

Chapter highlights include:  

(00:00) INTRO

Connect: 

https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha

Today Vik and I discuss Dubai's biggest visa overhaul and how we think that will impact Dubai in Q4, Netflix's share price crashing and why you should keep an eye on Spotify. We also give you our (mostly musical) content recommendations for the week and Vik eats a burger.   

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This week Vik and I discuss the Dubai Land Department offering transparency on its data, a superb tech event we attended, WeCrashed from Apple TV, Elon Musk's bold offer to buy Twitter and Vik's adventures on the World's Largest Inflatable Water Park. We also check in with Alex to see how his recovery is going.   

Chapter highlights include:  

00:00 INTRO

This week Vik and I sit down to discuss the insane amount of restaurants we visited because we've had family in town. Also a huge coffee and dessert controversy at Sushi Samba, Alex getting his knee operated on, Raj's plans to visit London and Bali and Elon buying a huge stake in Twitter.

Tahir Majithia is an icon in Dubai Real Estate and one of the most recognised faces on social media.  In this episode, he sits down with Raj Kotecha and Vik Morjaria to discuss how he built such a huge following online and what was the moment he decided to go all in.  He also discusses how he would start his career on social media today and the feeling of being recognised after such impressive social media growth.   

00:00 Start 

1:25 Who is Tahir Majithia? 

5:24 How did content help Tahir Majithia? 

10:58 What motivated Tahir to keep posting content? 

28:49 How did short-form content help Tahir? 

31:13 How Tahir used Tiktok to grow his business? 

37:30 Direct & Indirect ROI  

45:30 How much has Tahir's marketing strategy changed because of content? 

47:03 Where would Tahir focus if he could start again? 

50:13 Tahir's future plans

Connect with the hosts:

 https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha 

https://www.instagram.com/vikmorjaria 

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe 

https://www.rajkotecha.com/ 

Connect with Tahir Majithia: 

https://www.instagram.com/tahirmajithia 

https://www.youtube.com/tahirmajithia 

https://www.tahirmajithia.com

An incredibly tough episode as this week we lost Maya, Raj’s cat suddenly.  The first 15 minutes or so covers that for the many people that knew her or followed her on Raj’s Instagram.  After that, we’re covering all the big moments of the week.

Chapter highlights include:  

00:00 SCENE ZERO 

00:37 MAYA'S PASSING 

16:29 OUT & ABOUT IN DUBAI 

28:37 EXPO CLOSING PARTY 

40:27 WILL AND CHRIS MEDIA FALL OUT 

44:34 ALEX'S KNEE 

48:50 CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS 

1:00:28 SHOUTOUTS

Connect: 

https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha 

https://www.instagram.com/vikmorjaria 

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe 

https://www.rajkotecha.com/  

Search for THE RAJ KOTECHA SHOW on Spotify and Apple Podcast too.

This moment opens up an ugly can of worms about the lives and pressures of men across all levels of achievement and socio-economic backgrounds. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Grammy's 2022 is about pressure, body image, PR spin and so much more.  We discuss it here in an emergency podcast.  

00:00 Welcome 

00:13 Why we made this episode 

00:45 The level of violence 

03:04 Reactions 

05:50 What did Chris Rock almost say? 

08:53 A huge Mental Health moment 

11:21 What is Will Smith going through? 

13:55 Will told "Women bring out rage in you" 

18:09 Will's acceptance speech breakdown  

26:00 A Bittersweet Acceptance? 

30:57 Shout outs

Connect:

https://www.instagram.com/rajkotecha

https://www.instagram.com/alexchristophe

https://www.rajkotecha.com/podcast