Aramco

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Aramco is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 11, 2023 and February 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Part of why Aramco IPOed was to create proper financial records”; “But the ninth is Aramco , the Saudi state oil company”. It most often appears alongside San Francisco, 101, 4o.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 11, 2023
  • Last seen: February 05, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

September 11, 2023 · Original source
On Neom wanting loans - I have a guess. Part of why Aramco IPOed was to create proper financial records - not because selling a few percent of Aramco meaningfully diversified the holdings of the Saudi royal family. By being a publicly traded company, there were forcing mechanisms to get the company to do proper financial reporting.
February 05, 2026 · Original source
1: All nine of the world’s nine most valuable companies were founded on the US West Coast. Eight are the tech companies you would expect. But the ninth is Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, which began as a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Corporation of California.