106: Wartime Diaries - Raz Newman
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Israel has, of course, branded itself as the Start-Up Nation. And in many ways, Raz Newman is the classic Israeli tech entrepreneur. He’s 32, lives in Rishon Le’Zion, has two daughters, and spends most of his time researching AI and meeting with potential angel investors. On October 7th, as people began thinking how to best contribute, Raz immediately opened up his laptop and began building the AI Ezra Bot.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I just clicked on the link. |
| 0:04.0 | Okay. |
| 0:05.0 | And it immediately takes me to WhatsApp and it says, |
| 0:09.0 | Hi Ezra, which is the bot. |
| 0:11.0 | Esmach to nadev slash to Kabil Ezra. |
| 0:14.0 | I'd like to volunteer or to ask for help. |
| 0:19.0 | So what do we want to do? |
| 0:20.0 | Let's ask for help. All right, we want to do? Let's ask for help. |
| 0:22.0 | All right. |
| 0:22.6 | That's a little egotistical. |
| 0:24.9 | All right. |
| 0:25.5 | Let's see what it says. |
| 0:31.0 | Nice to meet you. |
| 0:33.2 | People are volunteering all kinds of help. |
| 0:36.5 | Babysitter, donation of equipment, transportation, hosting people, |
| 0:45.2 | or even just talking to other people for what I imagine is psychological help. |
| 0:51.3 | Someone is looking for helmets for a group in the army. Someone else is looking |
| 0:59.7 | for medical equipment. Someone else is looking for transportation of food in the Ghadera area. |
| 1:07.6 | Okay, Roz, so why don't we try and see if we can host a family from the south |
| 1:14.2 | that's been forced to leave their home? All right, sounds good, let's try it. Okay, we have a match. |
| 1:26.2 | And then you just communicate with him. |
| 1:27.6 | Amazing. |
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