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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Michael Eisenberg, co-founder and general partner at Aleph, an early-stage venture capital fund.
Michael was born and raised in Manhattan, New York. During his college years, he went abroad and studied in Israel for two years. The trip was SO transformative that he decided to go back to Israel after he got his degree in New York.
Michael got into venture capital because he wanted to help Israeli entrepreneurs create more jobs for people. Some of his notable investments include WeWork, Wix and Lemonade, a popular renter insurance platform.
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0:00.0 | I think the big differences in loyalty and that Israelis because they grow up in an army ethos |
0:05.2 | have this thing where you don't leave room to soldiers in the field and so people are extremely loyal |
0:08.7 | so your average employee is going to stay in the Israeli company a lot longer than they do today in the U.S. |
0:13.2 | Today you have kind of what I call equity portfolio collectors in the U.S. |
0:16.7 | You know, they do one or two years at this company, invest some stock and move on. |
0:20.3 | Here people are pretty loyal, and I think that's a big difference difference enables you to build bigger things. I think there's also |
0:25.0 | built things over a long period of time. |
0:30.0 | What's up you sexy people? It's your girl also known as body pump |
0:36.3 | aka mama sumo in today's episode Noah talks to Michael Eisenberg co-founder and general partner at ALIF, an early stage venture |
0:46.8 | capital fund. |
0:48.7 | Michael Eisenberg was born and raised in Manhattan, New York. During his college years, he went abroad and studied in Israel for two years. |
0:56.0 | The trip was so transformative that he decided to go back to Israel |
1:01.0 | after he got his degree in New York. Michael got into venture capital because he wanted to help |
1:06.4 | Israeli entrepreneurs create more jobs for people. Some of his notable investments include We Work, Wicks, and Lemonade, a popular renter insurance platform. |
1:18.0 | He is one of the top VC in Israel and the world. |
1:22.0 | Noah really enjoyed his conversation with him. |
1:25.0 | You will too. |
1:26.0 | Check out Michael's book, The Tree of Life and Prosperity |
1:31.0 | and his venture capital company at Alice. VC. If you've ever wanted to learn more |
1:37.9 | about why the Jewish community has risen to the top of the business and |
1:41.9 | professional world then you'll love this episode. |
1:45.5 | In this conversation you'll enjoy three big things. |
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