A Rosh Hashanah Special: Business Principles from the Book of Genesis

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this podcast, we’ve talked to a lot of policy-makers, pundits, professionals and practitioners about big picture trends they are observing and experiencing as a result of the pandemic. Today, however, we are going more micro. We'll talk to a venture capitalist about his portfolio of start-ups, and how those companies have been impacted by changes in the way we work and live, and what they tell us. Michael Eisenberg is a General Partner at the Tel Aviv-based Aleph, which is an early stage venture capital fund with over $500M under management. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 40 companies including Melio, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io, Windward, Empathy and Nexar. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital for 8 years, the legendary Silicon Valley-based VC firm, and he continues to work with Benchmark on their Israeli portfolio. Since around 1995, Michael has invested in and served on the boards of some of Israel’s leading companies and startups, such as Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), Gigya (acquired SAP), Shopping.com (Nasdaq: SHOP, acquired: EBAY), and Lemonade (NYSE: LMND). Michael is also the author of a fun and smart blog, called “Six Kids and a Full Time Job”, which covers topics ranging from politics to technology, Judaism and macroeconomics. The title of his blog is misleading because now Michael actually has 8 kids and 2 grandchildren - and he’s only at the tender age of 50! He is a frequent contributor to The Marker and Calcalist, Israel's Hebrew-language daily business newspapers. Michael has also published numerous books in Hebrew, including “The Vanishing Jew”, “Everyone can be Moses” and “Roaring Tribe”. Among other projects during the pandemic, Michael worked on translating his most recent book into English: "The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis”. Given his experience as a successful investor and business builder, and his deep literacy in Judaism, he’s the ideal person to tackle this subject and we’ll talk about his book in this conversation.

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0:00.0	We get to a pandemic and we got a live lab of what happens if we give people income without work.
0:06.4	And the answer is, first of all, they don't go back to work.
0:09.1	Mark Zuckerberg said in a commencement address, I believe it was at Harvard, that if we just gave people
0:14.0	universal basic income, they'd be creative in their free time. Nonsense. They didn't.
0:19.7	They stayed at home and they don't go back to work. And they're not creative because people need to be challenged and the human being as all society needs to be stressed in order to be productive.
0:30.0	Welcome to post-corona where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the
0:35.4	economy, professionals and
0:51.3	practitioners about big- picture trends they are observing and experiencing as a result of the pandemic.
0:57.0	Today, however, we're going to go more micro.
1:00.0	We'll talk to a venture capitalist about his portfolio of tech startups and how these
1:06.0	companies have been impacted by changes in the way we work and live and what they tell
1:11.0	us so I guess it's a blend of micro and macro.
1:14.0	Michael Eisenberg is a general partner at the Tel Aviv-based venture capital fund,
1:19.6	Olaf, which is an early stage fund with over 500 million dollars under management.
1:25.0	Since its founding in 2013, Olaf has invested in more than 40 companies,
1:31.0	including Lemonade, which is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange,
1:34.9	Bring Joytoons, Healthy.io, the CEO of Healthy I.O.
1:40.4	Yonatanadiri has been a frequent guest on this podcast and also companies like
1:44.8	Windward, Empathy, and Nexar. Prior to founding Olaf Michael was a general
1:50.9	partner at Benchmark Capital for eight years.
1:53.7	That's the legendary Silicon Valley-based V.C. firm, and he continues to work with Benchmark on
1:59.1	their Israeli portfolio.
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