Long-term development visions launched in the Gulf have various implications on labour-capital dynamics in the region. Emphasis on knowledge-economy, innovation, and entrepreneurship within the vision documents encourages young Khaleejis to seek self-employment by establishing their own business ventures to alleviate the “rentier” government’s burden of job provision. Entrepreneurship policy in the Gulf is, in essence, a policy of business ownership promotion that heavily relies on the availability of migrant workers. Thus, encouraging citizens to start their own businesses inadvertently leads to increased reliance on migrant labour. In this paper, I examine the significance of entrepreneurship policies in the restructuring of state-society relations by highlighting the role of new regulations and institutions tasked with the realization of development visions. I then delve into the labour arrangements created by innovative sectors and the so-called “digital economy” in the Gulf to shed light on new forms of precarity and political action among migrant workers. I argue that entrepreneurship policy is obfuscated by established business-state relations across the Gulf. Between a governmental reluctance to firmly impose nationalization regulations on established corporations, a rising consumerist culture, and a state of financial precarity among small business owners, reliance on migrant workers, often through precarious gigs, continues to increase in the Gulf.