Michael Eisenberg on the Start-Up Nation, Storytelling, and the Power of Technology

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Michael Eisenberg, venture capitalist and the author of The Tree of Life and Prosperity talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the secret of the Start-Up Nation, the role of principles in investing, and why he's optimistic about technology's contribution to humanity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
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0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is January 25th, 2022 and my guest is venture capitalist and author Michael Eisenberg.
0:43.9	He is the co-founder of the venture capital fund.
0:46.7	Alif here in Israel, that's ALEPH in English, Alif here in Israel.
0:52.5	And his latest book is The Tree of Life and Prosperity, Ethical, Economic and Business
0:57.7	Principles from Genesis to the 21st century.
1:00.7	Michael, welcome to econtalk.
1:03.3	Thank you so much for having me, Russ.
1:04.6	We're ready to see you.
1:06.1	And just to let our listeners know, we're going to be talking about venture capital investing
1:10.0	in a small market like Israel, Israeli economic issues.
1:14.2	And I think we'll also get to eventually, by the end of the conversation, get to talk
1:18.3	about what we can learn from the book of Genesis.
1:21.6	Now, despite your appearance on the YouTube version of this conversation, where you look
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