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In 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 app store. This episode has so much more as Sagi goes into their marketing strategies, company culture, and most of all what Sagi wanted to be when he was 15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 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 his career Shaul realized that he needed to follow his passion and create something, which led to Playbuzz. Shaul opens up on the many challenges he faced from almost running out of money early on, doubling down when the future looked bleak and how success happened by accident early on. Most impressive though was the loyalty he showed to his first lead investor Danny Cohen from Viola ventures (formerly Carmel Ventures) who gave them terms before they saw any traction and easily could have gotten better terms after their viral success on their demo product led them to see over 20M users on their site within 4 months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 with his employees, challenges of scaling Tailor Brands, approach to marketing and onboarding over 500,000 new customers monthly, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 build a company when the iPhone & AppStore. That lead him to start Appsfire and growing it only to pivot when Apple made some big changes and working through that to having a sucessful exit. All of his experience has culminated with his latest company KZen Networks and is taking all the experience he has gained to build a juggaernaught in the crypto/blockchain industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/adchoices

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

In 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

In 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

Rooly 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

How 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 active angel investors in Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices