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Before 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 stairwell and two months of runway, Yoav kept shipping—monetizing early, using AI to speed scripting and animation, and doubling down on partnerships that actually moved the needle.

What you’ll hear

• Why 2-minute stories beat PDFs—and when AR is the product, not a gimmick

• Monetize early, learn faster: toward profitability without stalling growth

• Inside the Snap win + Hollywood IP (DreamWorks, Paramount)

• Scaling content with AI without tanking quality

• Fundraising in headwinds (and why he’d build a U.S. presence sooner)

• Operating under pressure: rituals, team design, mindset

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Zoog

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Bill 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 needle won’t move. Bill shows how to flip it—by installing a few simple, durable habits that compound:

What you’ll take away

• How to choose one brutal focus for the next quarter—and say “no” to everything else
• The meeting rhythm that shrinks drama and speeds decisions (without adding more meetings)
• Turning strategy into action: clear priorities, owners, and weekly scorecards
• Upgrading talent without wrecking culture: accountability, coaching, and when to part ways
• Cash as oxygen: practical ways to extend runway and fund growth from operations
• The mindset shift from heroic founder to scalable leader (and why it frees your team to win)

If you’re leading a growing team and feel like more effort isn’t creating more progress, this conversation gives you a calm, concrete path forward.

Connect with Bill:

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Instagram

ScalingCoach

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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 averages ~5 months door-to-door, vets buyers like underwriters, and even pays to tidy the neighbor’s yard if it helps the sale. When a project caught fire weeks before completion, he bought the investor out the next day—because trust comes first.

What you’ll take away:

How pros de-risk flips (from sourcing to buyer vetting) so one mistake doesn’t wreck the year

The operations stack: CRM, standard SKUs, permit tactics, W-2 vs. subs, and why details decide margins

Pricing and speed in soft markets—why being slightly under comps beats sitting on inventory

Incentives that work: comp on successful exits, not just acquisitions

Radical transparency with investors (live P&Ls, photos, timelines)—and why it compounds trust

2025 outlook: why this will be a market for professionals, and how to prepare

If you want a clear, no-BS view of fix-and-flip at scale—and how to build a machine that survives hard markets—this one’s your operating manual.

Connect with Haggai:

LinkedIn

Oasis BVS Fund:

Website

Full disclosure — Haggai is a director at Oasis BVS Fund, a financing partner of Better Assets. This post is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any securities.

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If 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.

Assaf and Haggai trace the arc from hustling soda cans in 5th grade to building a category-defining product, surviving hardware hell, stepping aside, and starting over—measuring everything, moving fast, and running into the storm.

What you’ll take away from this episode:

- How to decide what to measure so behavior actually changes (in teams and in life)

- Why early institutional money can create expensive mistakes—and how to avoid them

- Building brand the right way: purpose → vision → position (and the creative partners that matter)

- Hardware reality: backlogs, bad BOMs, missing sensors—and the day they removed the speaker to ship

- Fundraising truth: when everyone says “you’re a vitamin,” and you still have to win

- The AI era: hiring born athletes, designing for fast-moving tech, and keeping a small team that outperforms bigger ones

- Process control for everything: the same lens that works in semiconductors, the Air Force, textiles—and home cooking

- Why pros do the boring reps (weeklies, scorecards, post-mortems) and amateurs don’t

- The “buffalo rule”: when a storm is coming, run into it

This is a story about grit, judgment, and the quiet courage to start again—this time with better habits and a sharper map.

Connect with Assaf:

LinkedIn

Vinst website

Vinst (iOS)

Vinst (Android)

Connect with Haggai:

LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned:

📘 Cooked by Michael Pollan

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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 disorganized leadership

● Why people problems aren’t always about “bad people”

● The moment she realized EOS wasn’t a productivity tool—it was a lifeline

● The 6 components every company must strengthen to stop spinning its wheels

● What it really means to build a well-oiled machine—with people you love working with

This is a story about the quiet heartbreak of working so hard and still feeling like you’re failing—And what happens when you finally find a map that makes the work work.

Connect with Esther:

LinkedIn

EOS Worldwide

Connect with Haggai:

LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned:

📘 Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Sponsors:

Kardz.Biz – “A business card too good to give away”

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