This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

My guest today is Yuri Adani.

He is a venture capitalist, an angel investor. He knows something about startups. He actually knows a lot more than something about startups. His venture firm has listed 12 companies on the NASDAQ so far and sold many others to the big companies that we all know,

the Cisco's, the Microsofts, the EMCs, the PayPal's.

Today we get into Yuri's new book, The Unstoppable Startup.

And look, he does a great job of going behind the scenes to explain what he does,

his principles, his practices, that any startup anywhere in the

world can use from his perspective to become an unstoppable one. I think what's also fun about

this conversation is that Uri is based in Israel, a high-tech Mecca.

Now, I've not yet been to Israel.

I plan on going.

I want to go anywhere where there's cool people like Yuri doing cool stuff.

So without any further delay, let's jump right in and do a little venture capital,

a little angel investing, a little how it all works, the mindset,

the best practices, and go behind the scenes with Yuri Adani.

And as always, I got to tell you a little story first that really triggered me on our conversation.

So the first time I was in New York City, probably around 94, 95, Was there a handful of times and then not really back

again for another decade regularly. But both times something happened to me as a suburban guy

growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, kind of in a somewhat religious school, not Jewish, but a religious

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