Hello and welcome to the 53rd episode of the 20 minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings.

And this week we're going to borrow from the magnificent Frank Sin Archer, in his words, New York,

New York. And that is where both our guests will be originating from this week.

And I am so excited to be kicking off this week's New York feature with Jonathan Lipov.

Jonathan joins us today from the investment team at the Incredible Union Square Ventures in New York feature with Jonathan Lipov. Jonathan joins us today from the investment team

at the incredible Union Square Ventures in New York, but he has lived for the last few years in

Tel Aviv, where he most recently worked as a product manager at Appsfire. He's also a graduate of

Vassar College with a degree in cognitive science, and he began his career in neuroscience research.

If that wasn't enough, Jonathan is also a designer and a coder, and you must check out his app 50,

which is among one of his many side projects. But before we jump into today's episode,

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But it's time for me to shut up and here is Jonathan.

Three, two, one, zero. You have now arrived at your destination. So Jonathan, welcome to the 20 minute VC. I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

Now, I'd love to start off by talking a bit about you and your past, working with Appsphere and then 50 App.

How did that lead to your current status as VC at Union Square? Well, I was a product manager at

Appsfire in Tel Aviv.

I had been there for about four years and really gotten to know the mobile ecosystem really well.

I think that was one of the reasons they brought me on here.

So I had been there about four years and kind of identified that my time there was coming to an end as a company was actually being more focused in Paris than Tel Aviv.

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