I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And I'm Naor Menninger.

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

Once upon a time, there were cave paintings.

Our ancestors sketched hunting scenes and traced their hands on the walls of the cave.

Thousands of years later, we humans, our abundant ingenuity invented papyrus, parchment,

canvas, and finally paper.

Eventually, we began recording and storing data digitally.

Remember those 3.5 inch floppy disks with a few measly megabytes? But as men and women had more to say, more to paint, more to communicate,

these methods were no longer enough.

Enter Dov Mouan.

Dov Mouan was fascinated by technology from a very early age.

He would tinker with electronic gadgets he bought from Mad Magazine.

Unfortunately, according to him, not to much avail. But this passion eventually led Moan

to invent a little gadget of his own that would, in many ways, change the world. The USB

flash drive, aka the disc gun key. A small device, small enough that you can carry

in your jeans pocket, capable of storing large amounts of data. Dov Moran studied in the Technion,

Israel Institute of Technology, and went on to establish his own company, M Systems. He continues

with his entrepreneurship today with over

40 registered patents. We are extremely glad to be joined today by Dov Moran to talk about the story

of the disc on key and his passion for technological entrepreneurship.

Before we get to the episode, let me tell you about our sponsors over at Hamburg University of Technology,

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