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AggaeusUncertainty Is Your Moat: Jerry Neumann on How Real Breakthroughs (and Great Investments) Are MadeJerry Neumann is a Columbia University professor, author, and retired investor who was named one of the “100 Best Early-Stage Investors” and one of the “Most Important VCs in New York” by Business Insider. He co-wrote Founder vs Investor, runs the iconic blog Reaction Wheel, and has spent decades dissecting how startups really win—not in theory, but in the messy, unpredictable reality of markets, psychology, and human behavior.This episode is a field guide for founders and investors who want to understand the only force that consistently produces breakout companies: UNCERTAINTY.Jerry...
2025-12-091h 10
The Chris ProjectIt's Going to Hurt: Haggai KlormanSend us a textSummaryIn this episode, Christian Brim interviews Haggai Klorman, an entrepreneur with a rich background in various ventures. They discuss Haggai's early experiences with entrepreneurship, the challenges and realities of being an entrepreneur, and the mindset required to succeed. Haggai shares insights from his journey, including the importance of resilience, the addictive nature of hustling, and the lessons learned from both successes and failures. The conversation emphasizes that entrepreneurship is not a superior path but a different journey that requires a unique mindset and willingness to face challenges head-on.
2025-12-0444 minAggaeusHow to Rebuild a Startup From Zero: Conviction, Collapse & a 10× Comeback with Gilad Uziely (CEO, Sequence)Gilad Uziely isn’t just the CEO of Sequence—he’s one of the few founders who has lived through every chapter of the entrepreneurial cycle: raising millions, scaling fast, watching the unit economics turn against him, shutting off onboarding, facing 160 rejections, restructuring a cap table with 83 signatures… and then coming back with a product customers paid for before it even existed.Today, Sequence is a breakout fintech used by small-business owners to orchestrate their financial lives across dozens of accounts. But before the 10× jump from $200K → $2M ARR, before Aleph VC and Emerge Ventures ba...
2025-12-0259 minAggaeusHow to Build Brands People Believe In: From ROUTE 66® to The Wild Geese with André LevyAndré Levy is the Chairman of Protégé International Group and Lodestar Licensing, and one of the rare operators who has lived every chapter of modern commerce: expelled from Egypt, rebuilt in the UK, forged his career across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, opened markets by hand, survived corporate politics, and then created global brands—ROUTE 66® and The Wild Geese—rooted in story, truth, memory, and identityThis conversation is a masterclass for any founder, creator, or brand builder who wants to understand how products become myths—and why consumers attach meaning to things long befor...
2025-11-251h 13AggaeusThe Psychology of Founding: How Behavioral Science Predicts Startup Success (with Alexander Shilman, New Gate Capital)Before Alexander Shilman was writing checks into frontier biotech, neurotech, AI infrastructure, and semiconductors, he was something rare in venture: a behavioral scientist trusted by governments, corporates, early-stage teams—and even prime ministers—to decode how humans actually behave under pressure, uncertainty, and change.That vantage point became a superpower.Alex spent a decade inside rooms most people never see—fixing real-world problems from cyber-risk to national policy—and quietly building a portfolio of early teams through his behavioral consultancy. Startups came to him to understand users; corporates came to him t...
2025-11-181h 06AggaeusFrom Rock Bottom to Boardroom: The Unreasonable Drive of Andreas FoeldenyiHow many times can you rebuild your life? Andreas Foeldenyi has done it—again and again. From losing everything after 9/11 to teaching in obscure classrooms just to pay the bills, to becoming Co-CEO of one of Switzerland’s largest private education groups, Academia Group—his story is a masterclass in grit, reinvention, and the art of turning collapse into momentum.Andreas’s career has spanned continents and contradictions: teacher turned entrepreneur, pianist turned CEO, Swiss executive turned NGO founder in Vietnam. He’s built companies, sold them, lost them, and built again. Now, as he transit...
2025-11-141h 34AggaeusFrom Club Promoter to Global Platform: How Yotam Cohen Built GO-OUT from ScratchBefore GO-OUT powered payments and operations for sports teams and music festivals across 14+ countries, it started with a 15-year-old kid in Jerusalem who hacked NBA 2K to play with his hometown team. That same mix of curiosity, grit, and obsession drove Yotam Cohen, now Founder & CEO of GO-OUT, to bootstrap a global company that unites ticketing, payments, and data for organizations that were never built to act like tech firms.No VCs. No safety net. Just relentless execution and a belief that sports teams and festivals shouldn’t need ten different tools to run th...
2025-11-0452 minAggaeusGoFundMe’s VP Product Hai Habot on Building Startup-Scale Products Inside GiantsAt Walmart, he turned a paper-napkin idea into a fintech product used by 18 million people.At StubHub/eBay, he helped scale global marketplaces.Now, as VP Product (Growth & Incubation) at GoFundMe, Hai Habot is reshaping the giving economy—proving generosity can be productized, operationalized, and scaled.Hai and Haggai Klorman Eraqi unpack how to build like a startup inside very large companies—where budgets, politics, and legacy systems collide with urgency, ambition, and customer need. You’ll hear how GoFundMe mobilized hundreds of millions in disaster relief within days, why most “...
2025-10-311h 25AggaeusThe Material That Gets Colder in the Sun — The Physics Startup Redefining Cooling with Yaron ShenhavA roof that gets colder under sunlight. A paint that cools a building without electricity. A startup that turned a laser-lab theory into a factory product sold to Amazon, Volkswagen, and AB InBev.That’s not sci-fi—it’s SolCold, and it’s the kind of “impossible” physics that only becomes real when someone refuses to quit.When Yaron Shenhav was a master’s student in electronic engineering, he couldn’t shake a paradox: why do we burn energy to create cold? That thought—plus an overheated apartment—sparked a decade-long obsess...
2025-10-241h 02AggaeusSound as a Superpower: How MusicTech Solves Real-World Problems (with David Fridman)Walk into a chicken hatchery that hums like a data center. Engineers aren’t checking feed—they’re tuning frequencies that tilt hatch rates toward hens and save billions in waste. A few kilometers away, a stadium tech lets people with hearing loss sit anywhere and hear perfectly through their own phones. In a care home, adaptive music calms dementia patients enough to reduce medication.That’s not sci-fi. It’s the world David Fridman is helping build.David grew up in Chile, moved to Israel, helped launch the country’s...
2025-10-211h 02AggaeusHe Sold Two Companies—Then Heard 197 No’s. Offer Yehudai Built ARYA Anyway.Before ARYA, Offer Yehudai had already built and sold two adtech companies ($86M, then $650M). With co-founder Tomer Magid, he launched a premium couples-wellness concierge—part human, part AI—that tens of thousands of U.S. couples now pay for monthly. They charged from day one and, using a no-code MVP (Typeform/Airtable/SMS), hit $1M ARR before writing a line of code. That traction grew into double-digit millions in ARR—all while staying premium-only.Then came the wall: 197 investors said no. Taboo category. Commerce. “Paid from day one.” Offer kept going—refining onboarding and ads, tig...
2025-10-171h 16AggaeusEvery Lead a Conversation — Dan Comyns’ Playbook for AI Sales that Actually CloseWhen Dan Comyns ran product & growth at Nexar, he helped turn “try-before-you-buy” from a risky idea into a repeatable system—and learned a simple truth: conversations beat campaigns. A scrappy experiment calling shoppers who’d abandoned checkout crushed every benchmark. That insight became Sellence: an AI sales OS that lets B2C brands talk 1:1 with every interested buyer (SMS/WhatsApp), follow up like your best rep, and escalate to humans when it matters. Even though Dan just started the company, he’s already working with brands across insurance, finance, real estate, and high-consideration e-commerce.So how did...
2025-10-1454 minAggaeusLights Where Roads Don’t Reach: Abigail Urey’s Blueprint for Profitable Solar in LiberiaWhen most founders talk “hard ops,” they don’t mean motorbikes, canoes, and villages without roads. Abigail Urey, Co-Owner of LIB Solar, does. Over the last six years, her team has become Liberia’s largest solar provider—operating in all 15 counties and serving 30K+ households and small businesses—by blending rigorous finance with on-the-ground ingenuity.Abigail walks us through the real work: recruiting community agents, designing pay-as-you-go plans for low-income customers, building a collections network with mobile money, and packaging end-to-end systems (lights, radio, fan—and yes, TVs and solar refrigerators). The result isn’t charity; it’s...
2025-10-1041 minAggaeusGrandma Became the Star—Then Life Hit Back. How Yoav Oren Built Zoog AnywayBefore Zoog was an app, it was a bet: kids light up when Grandma’s the hero. Yoav Oren had the track record to try—opened China for Similarweb, closed landmark enterprise deals, produced Netflix’s Krav Maga episode, then got tiny Zoog onto Snap’s Camera Kit next to Disney. DreamWorks and Paramount followed. $1M+ ARR. 20,000+ five-star reviews. Two-minute, AR-powered stories that put family in the frame.Then came the hits: a 17-hour deal that died at midnight. Investors ghosting after Oct 7. And on Oct 8, his wife’s cancer diagnosis. With sirens in the stairw...
2025-10-071h 03AggaeusStop Being the Hero: Bill Gallagher’s System for Scaling Without Burning OutBill Gallagher has spent years inside the rooms where companies either stall—or break through. As the founder of ScalingCoach.com, he’s coached CEOs and leadership teams to replace chaos with a repeatable rhythm, set priorities that stick, and build companies that scale without the founder carrying everything on their back.In this episode, Bill sits down with Haggai to tell the story behind that system. We start with a familiar scene: a team stuck at 40–60 people, sprinting harder but moving slower. Hiring feels random. Meetings sprawl. Cash is tight. Everyone is “busy,” but the ne...
2025-10-0347 min
AggaeusInside a 2,000-Deal Fix-&-Flip Machine: How to De-Risk, Move Fast, and Win (Even in a Tough Market)Eyal Karban has operated at a scale most investors never see: 2,000+ residential deals across Las Vegas and Phoenix and roughly $1B in transactions—with a playbook built on discipline, data, and transparency.This episode is the story of how that playbook was forged.Eyal walked into the wreckage of 2008, learned auctions from the ground up, and then built the systems that make speed possible: an in-house GC (with a warehouse of standardized finishes), a proprietary CRM, weekly pricing updates, Gantt-driven rehab, and hard post-mortems on every project. His team av...
2025-09-3038 minAggaeusAssaf Glazer’s Playbook for Building with AI: From Baby Sleep to Home CookingIf you’re a parent, you’ve probably heard of Nanit—the category leader that turned baby sleep into a measurable, improvable science. Co-founded and led by Assaf Glazer, Nanit became a unicorn and scaled to nine-figure annual sales, backed by Cornell, Technion, and dozens of peer-reviewed studies. Along the way, Assaf raised from top investors (including Upfront/Mark Suster), shipped brutally hard hardware, and built a brand parents still recommend.Now he’s doing it again with Vinst, bringing AI to the most human place in the house: your kitchen.Ass...
2025-09-261h 28
AggaeusAre You an Entrepreneur Who’s Constantly Fixing Leaks While Rowing the Boat? This Story’s for You.Esther Mendlowitz had done it all—built companies, led teams, poured everything into her work.And yet…It always felt like a mess.Smart, passionate people pulling in different directions.Meetings that solved nothing.Operations that broke every time the company grew.Eventually, she had to ask herself:“Is this just what entrepreneurship is supposed to feel like?”The answer came when she discovered EOS. In this honest, no-fluff conversation, Esther and Haggai unpack:● The invisible toll of disorganiz...
2025-09-231h 43
Creative Conversations With Roger HumphreyEdward KlormanViolist and scholar Edward Klorman talks about his book "Mozart's Music of Friends" and his just released book "Bach: The Six Cello Suites". If you have an interest in music history, or the music of these two giants you are sure to enjoy tuning in.https://www.edwardklorman.comhttps://mozartsmusicoffriends.comhttps://www.bach-cello-suites.comhttps://www.rogerhumphrey.com
2025-09-1332 min
SMT-PodFuguing Essential Voices: An Informance of J. S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue, BWV 1011 - Daniel KetterIn this week's episode, Daniel Ketter presents an essential voice analysis arrangement of J. S. Bach’s fugue for solo cello. It traces the composer’s solution to weaving a four-part fugal texture with nearly no chords or double stops through inventive combinations of a subject and countersubject.This episode was produced by Jason Jedlicka along with Team Lead Leah Frederick. Special thanks to peer reviewers Gilad Rabinovitch, Ed Klorman, and Joe Straus. Additional thanks to Jason Orr, Jessie Black, and Royce Diamond at Phosphor Studios.SMT-Pod’s theme music was written by Maria Tartaglia, with c...
2025-06-1217 min
The Digital MarketeerEpisode 61: Haggai Klorman-Eraqi, AggaeusHaggai Kloman Eraqi, CEO and third-generation entrepreneur, shares his journey with host Stefanie Beach - from childhood ventures to innovative businesses in telemedicine, luxury products, and AI. Rejecting the myth of work-life balance, Haggai advocates for intentional prioritization and accepting the inevitable costs of ambition, emphasizing domain expertise and authentic value creation. His candid insights on leadership, team building, and the universal psychological pressures of entrepreneurship offer a compelling masterclass in making deliberate choices about what truly matters in business and life.About Haggai Klorman-Eraqi: Avidly curious, with a passion for diving into new fields, categories, and...
2025-05-2057 min
15 Minutes Share Your Voice163: The Evolution of Business Cards: From Concept to MarketIn this week's edition of the AmiSights Podcast, we talk to Haggai Klorman-Eraqi. Haggai leads the Aggaeus Group, focusing on developing and supporting innovative brands. This includes Kardz.Biz, the "Black AMEX" of smart business cards, and Better Weight for Life, a telemedicine company. He explains how being an entrepreneur has similarities with being an artist.
Connect with Haggai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klormaneraqi/
Check out Kardz.Biz: https://kardz.biz/
Check out Better Weight for Life: https://betterweightforlife.com/
Recorded on 4/8/24
2024-05-1428 min
The Business of Meetings204: Digital Influence Unleashed: Haggai Klorman on Mastering Word-of-Mouth and Navigating Social Media and TikTok with Haggai Klorman We are thrilled to have Haggai Klorman joining us today! Haggai is a tech entrepreneur and EO. He has consulted with and built social media and word-of-mouth campaigns for major brands, including L'Oreal, Revlon, and Unilever, and has advised Bain Capital Private Equity. He also owns a digital business card company. In our conversation today, we discuss technology, the pros and cons of TikTok, and what Haggai is currently doing. Connect with Eric Rozenberg LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Website
2024-02-061h 02
Qiological Shop Talk015 The Surprising Effectiveness of San Cha San • Renee KlormanIn this Shop Talk we hear about a surprisingly effective use of the Tung point San Cha San, which she discovered when she treated herself for a head cold. San Cha San is easily accessed as it’s located along the Triple Burner channel, and is reached by sliding a needle in between the fourth and fifth metacarpals. So it is a point you can readily add to your treatmentsAdditionally Renee covers the uses of sister points, San Cha Yi and San Cha Er and how they are useful for back pain. It’s...
2023-05-2416 min
Roses All TrashBack to Black Lives Matter ✿ Roses All Trash Podcast ✿ Read-Communityin our last episode of 2020, we get choked up talking about protests and people's movements ❤️
also shout out to the birds from 12:30 to 13:12, if anyone can id them by their bird calls, we'd love to credit them as noisy ass guests on this episode
Week 4, December 2020: "What Do We Look Like?" #ReadCommunity
This week, we're reading the following:
Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letters"
Allyson Field, "L.A. Rebellion: UCLA Project One Films"
Na'ama Klorman-Eraqi, "Feminist Photography in 1970s Britain,"
Read along (with memb...
2020-12-1925 min
Parental Advisory with Lia BermanValerie Klorman Sorenson!!!My last 'cast of my 30's (ugh) is another special call-in guest!! The hilarious Valerie Klorman Sorenson!!! You know the drill, mommies & daddies: rate, review, and share this pod!!
2019-10-2856 min
Qiological Podcast077 The Opportunity of Business • Renee Klorman and Russell BrownMany of us think that business is something we “have” to do. But really, it is something we “get” to do. It is a kind of privilege to create a life and practice that deeply reflects who we are. And it is an opportunity to work through any issues we might have with money, power and authority.In this conversation we explore business as a creative process that allows us to bring our unique vision of health and healing into the world. And at the same time invite us to grow beyond self imposed limits and beliefs that kee...
2019-03-191h 06Qiological Podcast061 The Medicine of Motion • Renee KlormanWe tend to think of movement in mechanical terms. How this muscle contracts, how blood perfuses a certain kind of tissue or how tendons and bones allow for particular kinds of movement.But beyond this we we can see that movement is a kind of vocabulary of the body. It has nuance or not. It has a range of expression or not. And just like micro-nutrients are vital to our metabolism, so to micro movements are vital to our physical wellbeing and nervous system.Today’s conversation is not about taichi or qi gong, but ab...
2018-12-031h 00
But I Also PodcastEp 10 – Who Pooped on Me? Ad Agency Associate and Newborn/Headshot PhotographerAll around professional Alexa Klorman discusses working in advertising which taught her client acquisition, branding, marketing and how to run a business. After this snapshot of her career, she then talks about starting a photography business in both the corporate headshot and newborn baby market. She loves what she does and her positivity is contagious! Find her work at www.alexadrewphotography.com and follow her on Instagram @alexadrewphotography. Please subscribe to this podcast in iTunes or your favorite Podcast app so you never miss an episode! Follow us: Twitter @ButIAlso Instagram @ButIAlso...
2016-07-2728 min