Invested by Aleph
By Michael Eisenberg
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How can values create value? Join Venture Capitalist and Author Michael Eisenberg as he speaks with global business leaders to explore the values and purpose behind their businesses, the impact of technology on humanity, and the humanity behind digitization. Michael Eisenberg is Co-Founder and General Partner of Aleph, an early-stage venture capital fund with $850M under management in Tel Aviv, Israel. Aleph is an early stage venture capital fund focused on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands.
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Josh Kopelman, Founder of First Round Capital and Half.com, on Why Buying Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX Is a Cyclical Trade, Catching the Last Chair in the Dot-Com Game, and Earning Tens of Millions in Free Media with Viral Marketing
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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Yuval Kaminka, Founder & CEO of Simply, on Why Running Out of Money Was a Gift, Opening the Company's Bank Account to Every Employee, and Using Music and Art to Heal
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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Gili Raanan, Founder of Cyberstarts and Chairman of Wiz, on Why He Asks Founders About Their Moms, Being Ghosted by Assaf Rappaport, and the Dark Decade Coming for Cybersecurity
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Douglas Atkin, Ex-Airbnb Exec who wrote "Belong Anywhere," on Why Every Great Brand Is Really a Cult, Standing Up to the New York Attorney General, and How Airbnb Lost a Million Customers
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Almost Everything We Believed About AI a Year Ago Was Wrong – Seven Experts Who Still Can't Agree on Whether It's a Bubble, Who It Pays Off For, or What Comes Next
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Daniel Lubetzky, Founder of KIND, on Reaching a $7 Billion Valuation, Why Builders Beat Destroyers, and How Many Nickels It Costs to Stick to Values
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Yuval Ariav, Solo GP of Symbol Capital, on Pre-Consensus Investing, Why NextSilicon Could Be Israel's NVIDIA, and the $1.1 Trillion Market Hiding in Plain Sight
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Saar Safra, Founder & CEO of Beewise, on Why Bees are a Matter of National Security, the Honey Laundering Scandal, and the AI Beekeeper That Never Sleeps
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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David Siegel, Former CEO of Meetup & Investopedia, on Solving the Loneliness Crisis, Rescuing Meetup from WeWork, and Why Israelis are Happier than Americans
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Oren Zeev, Solo VC Managing $3B, on Why Code Is No Longer a Moat, Surviving Navan's Worst IPO of 2025, and the Dangerous 10x Growth Mindset
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May 20, 2026 |
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Elad Raz, Co-Founder and CEO at NextSilicon, on Outperforming Nvidia on Efficiency, the Architecture No One Thought Possible, and What Happens When the Memory Bottleneck Breaks
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May 06, 2026 |
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Amir Fischer, Teen Venture Capitalist, on Raising $2M, Cold-Emailing Billionaires, and Why His Generation May Have the Most Agency Ever
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Dr. Eli David, Top AI Researcher and Entrepreneur, on Free Speech, Woke AI, and Why We’re so Much Smarter Than Elephants
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ami Daniel, Co-Founder and CEO of Windward, on Global Supply Chain Disruptions, How Much Ransom Costs to Cross the Strait of Hormuz, Global Navies’ Capabilities, and How Long This Whole Thing Will Last
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Agency Under Fire: Israel’s Resilience, Innovation, and the Future of Techno-Geopolitics | An Invested Special Episode
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Zach Greenberger & Eran Shir on Nexar’s Dominating the AV Market, Real-World Data Moats & the Playbook for Building an Agentic Company
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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SpotitEarly CEO Shlomi Madar on How Their Dogs Can Sniff Early-Stage Cancer, Why Dogs + AI is a Critical Combination, and Whether Cancer Screening Should be Regulated
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Lightspark Co-Founder David Marcus on Bitcoin Hitting 7 Figures, Lessons from Building and Losing Libra (Diem), Why College is Cancer & Fighting for Existential Values
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Special Episode: A Lookback on Some of the Strongest Business Leaders of 2025
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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David Magerman on Building Renaissance Technologies, Why AI is “An Automatic Machine Gun We’re Giving Children,” and Sacrificing Relationships for Success
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Founding Partner of Uncork Jeff Clavier on Being the First Seed Investor, When Your First LP is Your Wife, Passing on Uber & LinkedIn and the ‘3 Asses’ Rule
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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USVP GP Jacques Benkoski on What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong About Go to Market, Building Value as an Investor & Why ‘Crossing the Chasm’ is Outdated
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Carta CEO Henry Ward on the Death of CartaX, a Controversial AI Take, Only Hiring Missionaries & the EQ Mistakes That Break Companies
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Nuseir Yassin, AKA Nas Daily, on Being the First Israeli-Arab to Build a Unicorn, the Death of Organic Content & the New Marketing Playbook, and the Cost of Advocating for Peace Between Jews and Muslims
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Gavin Baker, Managing Partner of Atreides, on Everything You Wanted to Know About Semiconductors & Why Global Warming is a Solved Problem
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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General Catalyst Co-Founder David Fialkow on Pitching VCs Through ‘Hot Buttons,’ Billion-Dollar Storytelling & Bringing Down a Cult
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Mati Gill, CEO of AION Labs, on Funding Life-Saving Startups, Lessons From Working at Teva Pharmaceuticals in Crisis & Life After Getting Shot
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Nir Zohar on His Evolution from Wix Coffee Maker to COO, Why the Wix Management Team Has Offsites in the Water, the Super Bowl Ad that Changed Everything and Why Wix Bought Base44–”One Guy”–for $80 Million
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Gigi Levy-Weiss on How the Israeli Air Force is the Best Model for Running a Company, How Playtika Exploded Overnight by Accident, the Uncomfortable Truths About Working in Gambling, and the Coolest Companies in the NFX Portfolio
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman on How a Story in CNBC Beat Fiverr’s $8M Super Bowl Ad, the Right Way to Go Public, How Your Boss isn’t Responsible for Your Career, Why Freelancers Move Faster Than Employees, and How AI is Raising the Floor–not the Ceiling
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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From DNA to Star Trek: Samuel Arbesman on Reconciling Science with Tradition, Building Personalized “Sims” for Your Body, and What it Means to be a Scientist in VC
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Dream Founders Shalev Hulio and Sebastian Kurz on How Dream Became the World’s Fastest-Growing Cyber Startup Within 18 Months, Building the First AI Native Cybersecurity Company, and Whether it’s Possible to Ethically Use Offensive Cyber
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Israel Vs. Iran War: Special Episode of Invested
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Ex-Fiverr Chief Business Officer Gali Arnon on the Strategy That Turned Fiverr From the Cheap Services Brand into the World’s Top Talent Marketplace, How the Role of the CMO Has Changed, and Making Your Mother-in-Law Proud
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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StarkWare Co-Founder Eli Ben-Sasson on the Future of Blockchain, Zero Knowledge (ZK) Proofs and How They “Solve Integrity” and Why We No Longer Have to Trust the Banks or Government
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May 21, 2025 |
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Katie Stanton on What You Never Heard About Obama, Operating Vs. Investing, Behind the Scenes at Twitter, Yahoo! and Google, and Using Your Network to Get Ahead
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May 07, 2025 |
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Benchmark GP Sarah Tavel on What She Learned at Bessemer, Greylock, Pinterest and Benchmark, Being an Operator vs. an Investor, and How to Create an AI Moat
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Omri Casspi on Life After the NBA as a Venture Capitalist, Bringing Elon Musk to Israel, Sports Philosophy in Investing, Getting Founders to Trust Him, and the Story He Never Told Anyone | Invested
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Amir Shevat on Growing Developer Relations at Google, Microsoft, Slack, Twitch and Twitter; the Future of Engineering; Getting Fired Overnight by Elon Musk & Publicly Calling Him Out
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Ex-Amazon Dan Davidi on Replacing Fuel with His Company Ohr, Literally Reinventing Rocket Science, and Whether Synthetic Biology is Playing God
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Ex-CEO of Waze Noam Bardin on What Really Happens at Google, Life After a Billion-Dollar Acquisition, Building the Ultimate Community-Based Business, and What No One Gets About OKRs
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Investor Sender Cohen on Learnings From Working With Stan Druckenmiller and George Soros, TLV vs. Dubai, and Why He Pays Someone to Keep Him Off the Internet
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Andreessen GP Katherine Boyle on the Battle for America’s Future, Why She Left Silicon Valley for Florida & Why it’s Good to be Bored in Church | Invested
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Why TikTok Should be Banned in the U.S.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Information Founder Jessica Lessin on Building the World’s Top Tech Media Outlet, Why Citizen Journalism Won’t Replace Traditional Media, and the Future of Journalism | Jessica Lessin on Invested
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Vee Founder May Piamenta on Selling Her First Company at 16, Smuggling a Computer Onto an Army Base, Laying Off Her Entire Company and Knowing When to Pivot | Invested
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Adam Fisher, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, on What it Takes to be a Great VC, Lessons from Wix and Fiverr, and Why Israel Should Let Go of the “Startup Nation” Narrative
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Harvard Professor Roland Fryer on Relentlessly Pursuing Truth, ‘Closing Social Gaps with Market Caps,’ and Celebrating Failure
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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AI Expert Oren Etzioni on How Deepfakes are Influencing Global Events, Our Moral Obligations Around AI & the Fight Against Disinformation | Invested
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale on Fixing America, Disrupting Defense Innovation & Building the University of Austin
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Invested: After October 7
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Bradley Tusk on How to Save Democracy Before it’s Too Late, the Problem With Our Political Structures, and the Power of Mobile Voting
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Sam Lessin on What Entrepreneurs Don’t Realize About VCs, When the State Should Intervene with Tech, the Future of Crypto and the Evolution of Truth
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Alon Arvatz on the Future of Israeli Cybersecurity, Exiting Multiple Companies, Leaving Money on the Table, and Making Financial Literacy Accessible
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Yoav Shoham on What Machines Understand About Us, Leading AI in Israel & Stanford, AI21 Labs Innovations, and How We’re Wrong About AGI
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Barak Herscowitz on TikTok’s Anti-Israel Bias, the Memo That Got Leaked, Resigning From TikTok, and the Story Israel Needs to be Telling
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Lior Eshkol on How Wolt Israel Became a Cultural Icon, the Essence of the Israeli Consumer & Navigating the Company Through Crisis
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Matan Bar on Melio’s Humble Beginnings, The Power of Storytelling, Making Tough Decisions as a CEO, and Meeting George W. Bush
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Jacob Helberg on the China Doomsday Scenario, the Dangers of Wokeism, and What America Needs to Win the Technological Arms Race
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Beezer Clarkson on How to Get a “Yes” from Investors, Advice to Young VCs, Fund Mission vs. Returns, and What Diversity Means in Venture
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Marc Rowan on Having the Courage to Speak Up, Apollo’s Investing Strategy, Commitment to Israel, and Looking Ahead
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May 16, 2024 |
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Ben Lang on Being Early at Notion, How to Build Community, Angel Investing and Taking Risks
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May 01, 2024 |
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Antonio Garcia-Martinez on the Hippie Influence over Silicon Valley, Behind the Scenes at Facebook, Writing ‘Chaos Monkeys’ and Founding Spindl
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Eyal Waldman on What Went Wrong on October 7th, His Personal Loss and Plan for Peace, and Mellanox’s Impact on AI
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Yasmin Lukatz on Investing in a Time of War, Founding ICON, How to Make a Difference, and Being on Shark Tank
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Yonatan Adiri on Stepping Down as CEO of Healthy.io, the Future of Healthcare, and What’s Next for Him - Part Two
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Yonatan Adiri on Founding Healthy.io, Challenges in HealthTech, and Working with Shimon Peres - Part One
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Stefan Tompson on Founding Visegrad24, Fake News, Fighting for Israel and the West
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Bradley Tusk on Investing Like a Politician in Regulated Industries, the Flaws of Elite Education, and the Fragmented Future of America
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Alex Konrad on Covering Israeli & Gazan Tech, the Forbes Midas List, & Civic Resilience
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Izhar Shay on Losing His Son Yaron Oree, the October 7th Attack, an Initiative for the Fallen, and Moving Forward
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Ami Daniel on the October 7th Massacre, Rescuing Survivors Using Tech, and Managing a Company During War
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Eyal Waldman on Building Mellanox, Employing Palestinians and Israelis Together, and The Future of AI
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Harry Stebbings on Starting 20VC, Being Underestimated, Investing, and Wealth vs. Happiness
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Jon Pelson on China's Influence, TikTok, Huawei and Different Values
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Ron Gura on Empathy, Grief and Scaling Humanity
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May 31, 2023 |
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Kathryn Mayne on VC, Investing in People, Taking Risks and Why Israel is Special
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May 17, 2023 |
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Daniel Schreiber on Storytelling, Good vs. Bad Investors, Running a Public Company
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May 02, 2023 |
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Orit Farkash HaCohen on AI Regulation, Burnout, Israel’s Natural Gas Exploration, and Diversity in High-Tech
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Jeff Swartz on Timberland, Social Impact, Philanthropy, Having Too Many Words and Lots of Dreams
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Russ Roberts on the Difficulty of Giving Good Advice, Work-Life Balance, Our Obsession with Productivity, Storytelling and Wild Problems
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Aryeh Bourkoff on Empathy, Digital Communities, Relationships vs. Transactions, Being Self-Aware, Dreaming about Being Shy and Lazy
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Introducing Invested by Aleph
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Mar 07, 2023 |