#241 - Highs and Lows of a Startup King (Shaul Olmert)

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Aiton Weinstein.
0:01.7	And I'm Naor Menninger, and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.
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0:46.4	a.j. These are just a few of the entries on today's guest's book. at Nickelodeon and MTV, and recently a novelist.
1:11.6	These are just a few of the entries on today's guest's resume.
1:16.1	Shaul Olmelt was CEO of Playbuzz, a company that for quite a while dominated online content.
1:22.7	If you were on Facebook and five years ago, there's zero chance you didn't come across a Playbuzz article.
1:28.5	Today, he is CEO and co-founder of a stealth mode startup called Piggy.
1:33.1	And recently, he's written a novel, one that caused him to ask himself,
1:37.2	is Shaul Olmelt an entrepreneur and businessman who just wrote a book?
1:42.4	Or is he a novelist who's been masquerading as an entrepreneur
1:46.3	and a businessman? Well, today we get to find out. We are super excited, super thrilled to be
1:52.2	joined by Shaul Olmer to talk about his business endeavors, his new novel, and what his favorite
1:57.4	Playbuzz article was? Which one? Hello.
2:00.8	Hey, Playbus article.
2:04.0	So Playbus was a platform that enabled everyone.
2:07.0	It was free.
2:07.6	So everyone had access to it.
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