Ori Lahav (Outbrain): Build Trust at Scale — From Kibbutz Kid to $1B Adtech Pioneer
Before Facebook, before Twitter, and before Chrome became what they are today, Outbrain helped shape the modern internet—and grew into a $1B+ revenue, public company with 1,000+ employees.
Ori Lahav, Outbrain's former CTO and Co-Founder, opens our conversation with: “Entrepreneurship is like living with a chronic disease.” Not because it’s “morbid” — because it’s constant. It never stops calling. And if you’ve felt that “bug,” you’ll recognize yourself instantly.
In this episode, Ori tells the unlikely story: a kid raised in a kibbutz (where “business” and capitalism didn’t exist) secretly…
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