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2022-11-1608 min2022-11-0905 min2022-11-0206 min2022-10-2506 minTorah insights w/ Rav Ari CutlerRav Ari Cutler: Breishit- Marital BlissOn the 2nd yartzeit of Rabbi & Rebbetzin Mandelbaum we are honored to continue their legacy with Rav Ari Cutler taking over and teaching weekly insights into the Parsha.
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PLUGGEDINAvichay Nissenbaum, General Partner @ Lool VenturesIn this episode of PluggedIn I sit with Avichay Nissenbaum, General Partner @ Lool Ventures and discuss how he started his career as a pest shop worker, ended up selling his last startup Yedda to AOL in 2007 and transitioned into a leading VC in Israel with Lool Ventures. Tune in to listen to that and much more as Avichay discusses his philosophy on startups and more including;How he got started in his career?What was his first startup?How long did it take to build & scale SmartTeam? (4:45)Before AOL acquired Yedda, what offer did they turn down?What did he...
2020-02-1147 min2020-02-0608 min2020-02-0308 min2020-01-2708 min
PLUGGEDINIri Zohar, Founder & CEO @ DFine, Previous Founder & CEO @ Oridian, eXelate, & FreshHubIn this episode of PluggedIn, I sit with Iri Zohar CEO of DFine and previously started and lead Oridian acquired by Ybrandt now Brightcom, eXelate acquired by Neilsen, & Freshub acquired by IKAN Technologies. It's an incredible track record and it's one of the many topics I discuss with him, what is the secret to his success, what keeps him motivated to keep building companies. When you listen to this episode you will also learn the following:1st startup idea?Pivoting and how difficult it can be? Overcoming the first failure?Was founding his 2nd company easier or harder?Challenges of b...
2020-01-2454 min2020-01-2008 min2020-01-1309 min2020-01-0607 min2020-01-0310 min2019-12-2307 min2019-12-1606 min
PLUGGEDINEli Hoffman, CEO @ Seeking AlphaIn this episode, I sit with Eli Hoffman, CEO of Seeking Alpha. Eli joined the company in 2006 after moving to Israel from Toronto to build the company's breaking news team. He is responsible for creating Seeking Alpha's flagship newsletter, Wall Street Breakfast, which is read by hundreds of thousands of investors daily.The story on how Eli went from a principal of an elementary school in Toronto to CEO of one of the hottest and most relied upon sites in finance is amazing. Eli had no idea that teaching would influence his management style and how his habit of investing...
2019-12-1248 min2019-12-0711 min2019-12-0406 min2019-11-2507 min
PLUGGEDINDov Moran, Managing Partner @ Grove VenturesIn episode 3 of season 2, I had the pleasure of sitting with Dov Moran one of the more grounded entrepreneurs i know (there is no age limit to being one)who sold a company for $1.5B to Sandisk. He is pragmatism and realism are refreshing as he discusses the pros and cons (yes there can be some downside) to selling his company and why he decided he wanted to start something new, the mistakes he made along the way, and what he is doing now with Grove ventures. Dov even goes into how he became chairman of Tower Semiconductor and has...
2019-11-2549 min2019-11-1808 min
PLUGGEDINOfer Fryman, CEO @ SyteIn this episode I site down with Ofer Fryman, CEO of Syte Syte a leasding AI startup out of Israel which is redefining online and in-store retail with next-generation visual AI. Ofer takes us on his journey working at HP, Microsoft, Jungo and how his experience working at those companies have helped shape him into the CEO who just closed a $21.5M series B round and has grown to 70+ employees. Most of all Ofer shares his insights into his experiences and if you listen you will find out the following:1) Why breaking eggs is so important and why Ofer loves to...
2019-11-1346 min2019-11-1107 min2019-11-0410 min
PLUGGEDINGil Dudkiewicz, CEO @ StartAppIn episode 26 I sit with Gil Dudkiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder StartApp a mobile media & data company and the 3rd most popular SDK after Google & FB. Before StartApp, Gil was the CEO of SweetIM, which was acquired by Perion Network (NASDAQ: PERI) in late 2012 for $41 million. In addition to this, In addition to this, I was also the CEO of MyDTV/MeeVee and the Entrepreneur in Residence at The Cedar Fund.This episode we discuss how his career got started, when he caught the entrepreneurial bug, what keeps him motivated, how he handles adversity, creating a culture of success , hiring methodology, scaling c...
2019-10-3139 min2019-10-2807 min2019-10-2410 min2019-10-1511 min2019-10-0708 min2019-10-0306 min2019-09-2310 min2019-09-1808 min2019-09-1008 min
PLUGGEDINMeir Morgenstern- CEO of CloundOn --> Israel Team Leader DropboxIn episode 25, I sit down with Meir Morgenstern who co-founded CloudOn in 2012, in short, it offered a web-based collaboration tool that lets users open, review and edit Microsoft Office documents. Meir and his team were acquired by Dropbox in 2015 after collaborating with them on a third-party application. So how did Meir come up with ClouOn? Great question and in this episode Meir takes us to his first job and the impact it had on him and the lessons he learned about leadership helped him create a culture of success in CloudOn and Dropbox Israel.However, success did not come overnight...
2019-08-0648 min
PLUGGEDINGil Eyal, CEO @ HYPRIn episode 24, I sit with Gil Eyal, CEO of HYPR as we speak about how HYPR came to be and how Mobli which was the Instagram before Instagram helped get him there. Eyal is a pioneer in the influencer space, as he served as the COO of early player photo-sharing app Mobli Media, and worked with influencers ranging from Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Pitbull, Lance Armstrong, Lil Wayne and Serena Williams to Nash Grier, Bart Baker, and Cameron Dallas. In this episode, you will learn the following about Gil;1) What lesson he learned at his first job at Playdom that h...
2019-07-1748 min2019-07-1407 min2019-07-0709 min
PLUGGEDINEyal Gura, CEO @ Zebra MedicalIn episode 23 I sit with Eyal Gura, co-founder & CEO of Zebra Medical - an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company dedicated to transforming medical imaging. So how did Eyal go from cleaning windows at a gas station to a serial entrepreneur with 2 exits under his belt as a founder and another as a founding investor, a prolific angel investor that includes Taboola & Appsflyer come to lead one of the hottest companies in Israel and in the AI & Medtech sectors worldwide. Eyal goes into how he got started, what motivates him, how he took his bar mitzvah money and invested in the stock m...
2019-07-0331 min2019-06-3008 min2019-06-2308 min
PLUGGEDINMike Seiman, CEO @ Digital RemedyIn this episode, I sit w/ Mike Seiman, CEO @ Digital Remedy a company which he started back in college building websites and selling ads his first one being for Aaron's Pharmacy. His journey to success is rooted in hustle, loyalty, and a bit of chutzpah as he went from selling ads to scaling his company early one and how his management style has evolved over time. Here are a few more things you will learn when you listen to the podcast;- What age did Mike start making serious cash & what did his mother think he was doing?- When...
2019-06-2045 min
PLUGGEDINJay Prasad- Chief Strategy Officer @ VideoAmpIn this episode, I speak with VideoAmp Chief Strategy Officer Jay Prasad about his career has taken him to VideoAmp and how he has helped them become one of the leading AdTech players in the industry. From his time as a consultant with EY where he learned that listening was a big part of how to succeed. Before joining VideoAmp, he served as VP of Global Business Development at TubeMogul where he led the company’s launch of Programmatic TV, data and supply partnerships, and international partnership teams in the U.S., EU, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Previously, Jay led str...
2019-06-1646 min2019-06-1607 min2019-06-1114 min2019-06-0307 min2019-05-2606 min
PLUGGEDINEric Berry-CEO @ TripleLiftIn episode #20 I sit with Eric Berry of TripleLift a leading native ad platform. We delve into all topics from his first job, getting into adtech, the founding of TripleLift, initial capital raise, management style, why he feels Slack is a net drain on productivity, getting the first campaign on TL, why Java is at the core of their product, how they have been profitable from early on and much more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-05-2046 min2019-05-1912 min2019-05-1209 min2019-05-0607 min2019-04-3014 min2019-04-2110 min
PLUGGEDINOmer Keilaf- From the sideline to the show, the road to CEOIn episode #19 I sit down with Omer Keilaf, CEO of Innoviz on of the hottest companies in the autonomous vehicle sector. Omer finally realized his dream of being a CEO after spending years helping 3 different startups succeed to the point where he co-founded Innoviz in 2016. Omer took an idea and in 3 weeks raised $9M and the rest is history. He brought in 20 employees and started to build the product out, over that time tInnoviz has grown to over 200 people with $182M raised to date. In this podcast you will also learn the following: - How long did it take Omer...
2019-04-0846 min
PLUGGEDINZiv Elul- The Ever Evolving CEOIn episode #18 I sit down with Ziv Elul, CEO of Fyber a leading mobile adtech company in Israel and beyond. Ziv's story is pretty amazing from a career in the IDF to an MBA at Hebrew U where he took a thesis project on In-Game Advertising and built it into one of the hottest adtech startups with friend and co-founder Offer Yehudai. So what led him to this path, what lessons did he learn from IDF that prepared him to be CEO of a multinational company. All excellent questions and you will learn the answers when you listen to the...
2019-03-2852 min
PLUGGEDINSarah Hofstetter- Blazing Her Own Path to the Top of the Media World- How did she do it??In episode 17, I sit with Sarah Hofstetter one of the more accomplished executives in the Digital Media Space. Sarah's story shows what hard work, creativity, perseverance, and good timing can lead to. Sarah is currently President of Comscore but her first job was as an intern at the NYTimes where she learned the art of storytelling. One of the key lessons she learnt early on was the importance of communication within the company and how the absence if it allows false narratives to be created. Here are a few more things you will learn when you listen to the podcast...
2019-01-2948 min
PLUGGEDINDennis Crowley: The long road traveled, his journey to success was anything but smooth.In episode 16, I sat down with Dennis Crowley, co-founder, former CEO, & Executive chairman of Foursquare to talk about the beginnings of his career in tech and how he took his passion of bringing people together into Foursquare. However, before founding the geolocation company in 2009, he had a less than ideal experience selling his previous startup, Dodgeball, to Google in 2005. That experience led to the creation of Foursquare as the leader in geolocation data for enterprises and the fun app for consumers and is now used by more than 50 million people every month.Here are some of the other topics discussed...
2019-01-2843 min
PLUGGEDINAvner Halperin-How he turned mining patient data into saving lives, one bed at a time!In episode #15 I sit with Avner Halperin, CEO of EarlySense a medtech company that is at the forefront of Digital health. EarlySense developed a software and sensor that remotely monitors patients’ sleep and movement when placed under a mattress. Crazy! I know as it's one of the more effective non-invasive patient-monitoring systems, in fact it saved over 3,000 lives in 2018 and is now in over 1M beds. So how did Avner build EarlySense to be one of the largest MedTech companies out of Israel? Listen to find out, but in the meantime here things you will learn in this episode.1. What pr...
2019-01-2745 min
PLUGGEDINYosef (Gary) Levitt- The Unlikely Path to Success; farm boy > jazz musician > Bus Boy > Killer EntrepreneurIn episode #14 I sit down with Yosef "Gary" Levitt, former CEO & Founder of MadMimi which was acquired by GoDaddy for $45M. The road to success was anything but easy as Yosef's journey started on a farm in South Africa to becoming a pro-skateboarder and bass player, getting a scholarship to a music college in the US, working as a Busboy in SOHO, playing at wedding, getting married, moving to Jerusalem and building MadMimi into one of the best email platforms for artists and small businesses. This interview with Gary Levitt is one of the most incredible and inspiring I have...
2019-01-2242 min
PLUGGEDINYoni Assia- The Unicorn No One Saw Coming, How Yoni Has Created A Financial Powerhouse!In episode #13, I sit down with Yoni Assia, CEO & Founder of eToro, the worlds leading social trading platform. So how did Yoni take his passion for finance from his teenage years and build a company that in 2018 had 1 Trillion in trading and 1 Billion in customer deposits? It wasn't done alone, he had great investors like Guy Gamzu who was an early lead investor and was critical in creating an organizational structure that has helped the company grow, it now has 620 employees worldwide. He keeps employees happy by giving them equity and looks to hir jr. people who look to grow...
2019-01-1342 min
PLUGGEDINYaron Samid- How Getting Fired from his first job led to an incredible journey as a serial entrepreneur.In episode 12, I sit down with Yaron Samid, a serial entrepreneur who already built 2 successful startups on Pando & Desksite took an idea he had after finding a weird credit card charge which led him to create BillGuard a “collective brain” of credit card charges needed to be created to warn people about common grey charges. Yaron's journey to a successful exit was long, hard, and fun from his really short stint at Edelman PR after college, to Forman Interactive (Register.com), Backweb, Desksite, Pando and finally BullGuard. Yaron's career originally started in marketing and moved to product marketing and management whic...
2019-01-1049 min
PLUGGEDINSagi Schliesser- How 13 yrs in B2B Led Sagi to build TabTale, one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world w/ 2B+ downloadsIn episode 11, I sit down with Sagi Schliesser CEO & Co-founder of TabTale one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world with over 2 Billion downloads. Years of experience from 8 years in the army, 10 years in B2B led Sagi to follow his passion and creativity to create TabTale. TabTale was not an overnight success, it took a number of years to find the right formula and a big commitment from Sagi who sold his apartment to continue to build and grow TabTale. Now it has 5 offices around the world with their mobile games regularly breaking the top 10 in the...
2019-01-0646 min
PLUGGEDINShaul Olmert-How A Journey From Within Has Led Shaul to Founding & Building PlaybuzzIn episode 10 I sit down with Shaul Olmert Co-founder & CEO of Playbuzz and learn how a deep introspective look at his career had him start Playbuzz. So how does a kid from Jerusalem who started out as a teacher end up creating and running one of the largest content creation companies in the market? It all started back as a teach where he met his co-founder and former student Tom Pachys and years of working at startups, entertainment companies, gaming companies and the growing frustration with where his career path was going. By taking a deep look at himself and...
2018-12-2446 min
PLUGGEDINYali Saar-Talk About A Journey-Child Actor to Founding a Non-Profit, to Tailor Brands the Digital Agency for SMBs!In episode 9, I sit down with Yali Saar former child actor and now CEO of one of the hottest creative companies around. His story is fascinating as there are many things that led up to him creating Tailor Brands with two of his best friends and how they went from building brands via AI to becoming an agency for SMBs and servicing all their creative needs, viewing themselves as the WPP for the small business market. Questions we discuss range from how his acting career prepared him for fundraising and raising $20M, how he is building loyalty and fostering community...
2018-12-2045 min
PLUGGEDINOuriel Ohayon- From France to Israel, From Building Companies To Investing In Them, The Never ending Journey!I had the privilege of sitting down with Ouriel Ohayon- entrepreneur, angel investor, VC, and founder who has accomplished all this in his 20 or so years in the space. We discussed a variety of topics spanning past, present, and future including his first job of selling CD's in a retail store and how that stayed with him. Ouriel takes us through his early days of starting an internet company and the important lesson he learned that lead him on an amazing journey of investing and building one of the largest VC firms in France to the realization he wanted to...
2018-12-1651 min
PLUGGEDINDennis Mortensen- How hard work as a teenager and love for computers led to multiple exits.In episode 7, I interview Dennis Mortensen, CEO & Founder of X.AI and a serial entrepreneur who had 3 exits prior to X.AI. It’s hard to believe Dennis started in the fur trade back in Denmark building cages and saving his money to buy his first computer and becoming a computer geek. The hard work paid off as Dennis has had one hit after another with his last company being acquired by Outbrain. If you want to learn more about his drive and philosophy on selling than listen to this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
2018-12-1246 min
PLUGGEDINEric Franchi- The journey from salesman to Co-founder to VC.In episode 6 I sit down with Eric Franchi who co-founded Undertone which was acquired by Perion on how he started out in the Adtech industry and how he came to be an angel investor and partner in MathCapital an aggressive early-stage VC in the Adtech/Martech industries. Eric goes into detail on how sales / cold calling prepared him for success to what he looks for in founders and startups.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-12-1046 min
PLUGGEDINHillel Fuld- the advisor every Israeli startup needsIn episode 5, we take a bit of a detour and instead of a founder, CEO, or angel investor I interview Hillel Fuld a premier influencer in tech and specifically the Israel startup ecosystem. From how he started blogging which lead to vlogging, his pay it forward approach of helping companies. I try and bring insight into what makes him go (at a really fast pace) from his approach to advising companies, networking, and the overall Israel tech scene. This is an in-depth interview with one of the master connectors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-12-0346 min
PLUGGEDINChris Cunningham - Founder to Angel InvestorIn this Pluggedin Podcast we go deep with Chris Cunningham the early adopter on FB advertising and how AppSavvy came to be. Chris takes us on his journey from being a founder and on top of the advertising world for a number of years to being forced to pivot and going from 50 customers to one large one. How did that experience make him one of the premier Angel Investors and why he is crushing it today. This episode has it all, listen to get some awesome insights.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-11-1535 min
PLUGGEDINRooly Eliezerov- Following Ones Passion to SuccessRooly was an architect by trade but soon realized that he really wanted to build products more than buildings. In this interview Rooly tells us how he met his co-founders at Gigya, how they worked so well together, how they built Gigya (which was sold for $300+ million to SAP) from within and much more. This podcast is full of fantastic info especially how they fostered a culture within the company to make horizontal and latter also moves for employees.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-11-1133 min
PLUGGEDINGuy Gamzu - The Humble & Accessible Angel InvestorHow exactly did Guy Gamzu become one of the more successful angel investors in Israel? Guy goes into detail from his first investment and why he wears the title of Angel Investor proudly. Learn from his successes and failures, what he does to overcome the proverbial brick wall, what he looks for in an entrepreneur, how to deal with a company pivot, how involved is he with portfolio companies and it's founder. This is a podcast you will not want to miss as we get an inside view on his journey over the past 20 years as one of the most...
2018-11-0744 min
PLUGGEDINHow a first time Founder & CEO sold his company to OracleA candid conversation with Steven Glanz the former CEO and Co-founder of Crosswise which was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Steven goes into detail on what spurred him to start a company, at what point did he realize it was time to sell, what he took away from his first job in tech that stayed with him until today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-11-0143 min
Parsha To Go W/ Rabbi MandelbaumParshat TitzavehRabbi Mandelbaum delves into Parshat Titzaveh and speaks to the bond of brothers that Moshe & Aharon have.
2018-02-1809 minParsha To Go W/ Rabbi MandelbaumParshat TerumahQuick take away’s from Parshat Terumah w/ Rabbi Mandelbaum
2018-02-1406 min