Ep. 1140: Uri Levine Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Uri Levine, a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor and two-time unicorn creator (Duocorn), who co-founded Waze. He was also an investor and board member in Moovit. He followed his dream to create a lot of value for a lot of people, through a series of startups, that disrupted inefficient markets and services. His startups primarily focus on solving "big problems" and saving consumers money and time while empowering them. He is also a mentor, a teacher, and an author.
The topic is his book Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The journey from failure
- The contrast of entrepreneurs in the modern age
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Understanding the perception of the problem and building a solution
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | One of those great entrepreneurial stories on the podcast today. I'm so lucky that I get the chance to hear from the people that did it. |
| 0:43.3 | The people that lived it. |
| 0:45.1 | The people that made it happen. |
| 0:46.3 | My guest today is Yuri Levine. |
| 0:48.6 | He started a company called Waze, something that has a little bit to do with avoiding traffic, sold it to Google for a billion |
| 0:56.1 | plus a decade ago, and has gone on to create other companies that have sold for a billion |
| 1:01.8 | plus. |
| 1:03.1 | If you are an entrepreneur, if you have any entrepreneurial thinking in you, this is one of those |
| 1:08.0 | conversations, one of those chances to find a nugget, to find a morsel from |
| 1:13.4 | someone who has been there and done it and had great success. |
| 1:17.8 | Uri's book, One You Should Check Out, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution. |
| 1:24.0 | Without any further delay for me, let's jump right into my conversation today with Yuri Levine. |
| 1:29.2 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:42.0 | I got to say, looking at you, looking of the gate, you are the most promotional author I've |
| 1:48.5 | had on in 10 years with the shirt and everything. |
| 1:52.0 | I cannot forget. |
| 1:53.5 | This shirt is way before I started the book. |
| 1:59.3 | I decided to call the book based on this shirt because this |
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