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Jason Wolf joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi for a rare, behind-the-scenes conversation about building (and investing) when the world is literally shaking. Jason helped scale TopTier to a $400M cash acquisition by SAP, lived through the Better Place era, and today co-leads Iron Nation—a VC fund created three days after Oct 7 to keep Israeli startups alive when term sheets were getting pulled overnight.

Iron Nation backed 24 startups in its first year—and already celebrated a first exit: illumex → NVIDIA. Jason breaks down what global investors often miss about Israeli resilience, how a wartime fund actually makes decisions, and what “good founders” look like when pressure isn’t theoretical.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Iron Nation was built in days—and how they selected investments from 1,000+ applicants

• Why term sheets vanished after Oct 7 (and what the best founders did next)

• The 4 traits Jason believes great founders must have (and how to spot them fast)

• The operator-to-investor trap: “I can see the puzzle completed… but the pieces are missing”

• AI’s real impact on jobs, budgets, and why the only move is to participate

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#Startups #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Leadership

Omer Menashe has been building for nearly two decades—startups, a long-running agency, and now a venture studio designed for the AI era. In this episode, he unpacks the “lifelong entrepreneur” path: why he became a lawyer (and why he quit immediately), how early internet hacking/piracy shaped his builder DNA, and how he turned digital marketing into a repeatable growth engine—powering Clyr, 1Flo, and Lightway Digital.

It’s a conversation about what actually breaks (and what survives) when you build in “digital-only” industries—plus why Omer believes AI is about to compress white-collar work faster than most founders are willing to admit.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How his first company scaled mobile dev + education when “mobile” was still rare in Israel

• The agency reality: why “we said yes to everything” worked early—and why it was a long-term mistake

• The most underrated growth channel: relationships, referrals, and “give before you ask” in practice

• Why Omer thinks agencies are in a “golden age” right before AI eats the margins

• His venture studio thesis: shifting from digital labor to physical services/products as an AI hedge

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Roomer didn’t just survive travel’s worst crash—it rebuilt itself inside the industry. In this episode, Gon Ben David (Co-Founder & CEO, Roomer) breaks down how Roomer went from a bold marketplace for reselling canceled hotel reservations, to partnering with giants like Kayak, to building “cancel-for-any-reason” infrastructure—then pivoting post-COVID into the creator economy, where travel decisions are increasingly driven by people, not platforms.

We talk about the non-obvious distribution lessons most founders miss, how to build partnerships that become your growth engine, and why “taste + data” may be the next frontier in travel discovery.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Roomer cracked demand with partners instead of burning cash in travel ads

• Why “inventory with an expiration date” changes everything about go-to-market

• The real operational chaos of “cancel-for-any-reason” during COVID (and how they lived through it)

• Why creators are becoming the new travel “experts”—and how Roomer helps them monetize

• A founder’s take on curiosity, humility, and telling the truth when things aren’t working

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#Aggaeus #TravelTech #CreatorEconomy #Startups #GoToMarket

David Bartholomeusz is a serial entrepreneur who’s built (and let go of) dozens of businesses—not to chase exits, but to design a life with more freedom and more play. In a conversation that starts light and quickly goes deep, David and Haggai unpack what leadership really is when you strip away ego, hustle-culture scripts, and the “CEO identity.”

You’ll hear how David runs rapid, low-cost startup experiments and how leaders evolve from managing followers to leading leaders. If you’re an operator, founder, exec—or just tired of performing success—this is your permission slip to rebuild from the inside out.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The hidden trap of “being the CEO” and why it can hollow you out

• How David tests business ideas quickly (without overbuilding)

• The difference between pain paralysis vs. “ready-to-move” pain

• Why the real product is often peace of mind—not the deliverable

• How to build teams that create autonomy (and stop needing you)

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#LeadershipTransformation #EntrepreneurMindset #FounderJourney #HighPerformance #PersonalGrowth

Rachel ten Brink has lived the full loop: corporate operator → YC-backed founder → GP at Red Bike Capital. She co-founded Scentbird, helped pioneer early DTC growth (before “playbooks” existed), and now backs founders at pre-seed and seed as a VC.

In this episode, Rachel shares thestory behind the wins: the awkward first meetings, the bad business models, the “almost gave up” moment, and the tactical moves that finally made Scentbird click—pricing discipline, retention-first subscription thinking, and early influencer marketing before it was crowded.

Then we flip to the investor lens: what she actually looks for in founders, why traction beats storytelling (especially for first-timers), and how AI changes the game—without replacing the fundamentals.

You’ll hear:

• The early Scentbird pivots that failed—and the one that finally worked

• Subscription survival: voluntary vs involuntary churn (and why card failures can kill you)

• What YC was like when growth expectations were brutal and simple

• The real advantage of “doing things that don’t scale” to land the first enterprise customers

• Rachel’s founder filter: learning speed, commercial sense, and distribution

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PlayerMaker didn’t build “another sports gadget.” They built a FIFA-certified, footwear-mounted sensor system used by top football organizations—the kind of product that takes years of R&D, brutal accuracy standards, and relentless credibility to earn trust.

In this episode, Yuval Odem (Co-founder & COO) shares how two tiny sensors that clip onto an athlete’s shoes and track foot motion at 1000Hz—then translate raw signals into performance insights that coaches and players can actually use.

But the path there wasn’t glamorous. It started with… kayaks. Then a pivotal hire: a former Nike performance lab leader. Then two years of painstaking development: athletes wearing prototypes while being filmed, students tagging events in slow motion, and algorithms learning how to “understand” every stride, sprint, cut, and touch.

You’ll hear:

• Why PlayerMaker chose football first (even though it’s the hardest sport to put hardware on)

• The breakthrough metrics that change performance: ground contact time, stride length, flight ratio

• How gait asymmetry can flag injury risk before an athlete admits something’s wrong

• The behind-the-scenes reality of landing pro clubs: trials, skepticism, superstition—and earning trust session by session

• The 4-year FIFA certification marathon (safety + accuracy) and why it matters commercially

• The brutal prioritization dilemma of running B2B + B2C at the same time (“I do not recommend it.”)

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Before Facebook, before Twitter, and before Chrome became what they are today, Outbrain helped shape the modern internet—and grew into a $1B+ revenue, public company with 1,000+ employees.

Ori Lahav, Outbrain's former CTO and Co-Founder, opens our conversation with: “Entrepreneurship is like living with a chronic disease.” Not because it’s “morbid” — because it’s constant. It never stops calling. And if you’ve felt that “bug,” you’ll recognize yourself instantly.

In this episode, Ori tells the unlikely story: a kid raised in a kibbutz (where “business” and capitalism didn’t exist) secretly learns to code on a PDP computer (a “washing machine” sized relic), disappears from keyboards for a decade… and then gets pulled back in by the dot-com wave — until a sailing trip and a friend’s idea turns into Outbrain.

You’ll hear the behind-the-scenes lessons most founders miss:

• Why Outbrain started as a simple 5-star rating widget (and why bloggers loved it)

• The brutal truth of early-stage: ~2.5 years to get distribution, then 3 pivots in 18 months to find a business model

• The “lighthouse” framework Outbrain used to pivot fast without losing the mission

• The moment Outbrain fired its biggest client to protect “trust” (and the cost of doing the right thing)

• How to build culture when you scale across oceans

• Ori’s core rule: “Trust the other side”

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A Michelin-trained chef builds a premium private aviation catering company, serves royalty + “flying palaces,” survives COVID, then exits. All this while operating in a cutthroat market that is private aviation, where there are basically no contracts, you get <48 hours' notice, and you are just as good as your last meal.

Daniel Hulme takes you inside a world most people never see: business jets that act as a “time machine” for executives, where flight attendants are the real decision-makers, and why the hardest part isn’t the food—it’s the logistics, systems, and reliability.

This episode is where we unpack:

• How Daniel went from Michelin kitchens → superyachts → America’s Cup chaos → private jets

• The system he built to scale from 5 flights to 70+ flights in a day

• “Heavy metal” wide-body missions (royal fleets, teams, tours) and what those orders actually look like

• Why food tastes different in the air (humidity + salt loss) — and how he engineered for it

• The unexpected COVID pivot: turning aviation infrastructure into a premium home-delivery brand that dominated the press

• The hidden side of exits: burnout, identity crash, and what nobody tells you after the deal closes

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Before Mor Assia ever wrote a term sheet, she already had a fascination with tech companies. As a kid, she’d flip to the tiny “Israelis on Nasdaq” section of the newspaper and track the numbers. At home, dinner conversations were about who founded what, who raised, who exited, and who’s building next.

Fast-forward: Mor becomes a Technion-trained engineer, serves in 8200, codes, climbs corporate strategy at IBM/Amdocs… and still, something nags at her.

She keeps hearing the same frustration from smart global investors:

“We only see Israeli deals after they cross the Atlantic—when the insiders already took the best entry.”

It felt like a broken bridge. A market inefficiency. A network problem.

So Mor and her partners built iAngels to fix it—starting with a brutal cold start:

no platform, no capital flywheel, founders asking “how much can you really commit?”, and a model that didn’t yet exist in Israel. They took risk, stitched supply and demand together, and built what Mor calls “a network of networks”— a global base of ultra-high-net-worth operators and builders.

Today, iAngels is an early-stage VC with:

• 120+ investments

• $550M+ deployed

• 27 profitable exits

• experience from seed to IPO and public boards

In this episode, Mor breaks down what most people don’t see:

• Why Israel’s “startup dinner table” culture is an unfair advantage

• How iAngels evolved from co-investment into a true early-stage VC platform

• What founders misunderstand about dilution vs. partnership

• Why “over-engineering” kills startups (especially now)

• How AI is rewriting the rules of competition—and what she expects from founders next

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After ELLI•Q™ landed above-the-fold on the New York Times front page, Dor Skuler—CEO & Co-Founder of Intuition Robotics—joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack how you build trust, etiquette, and real companionship with a machine.

Dor shares the decade-long journey that started long before Amazon even shipped Alexa, survived 80+ investor “no’s,” and finally created ELLI•Q™, a proactive AI robot designed to reduce loneliness, improve wellness behaviors, and connect families—without turning people into “the product.”

If you’re interested in AI, robotics, health, or any mission-driven market, this episode is a masterclass and a must-listen.

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