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Aggaeus
It’s 3 a.m., an entrepreneur is staring at the ceiling, wondering if they’ve just made the best—or worst—decision of their life. Welcome to the Aggaeus Podcast, hosted by Haggai Klorman-Eraqi. Here we share the messy experiments, the surprising wins, and the failures that cut deep but leave lessons worth carrying. You’ll get strategies, models, and insights from people in the arena—building, stumbling, and pushing forward.
Episodes
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From the Peak to the Pit: Rebuilding Healthy.io with Ron Zohar
In 2014, Ron Zohar and his partner Jonathan set out to do something nobody had done: turn the smartphone camera into a medical device. It took years. Physics…
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What Makes a Startup Hard to Copy in the Age of AI? with Maya Pizov
If AI makes your product easier to build, what stops someone else from building it too? Easier to start does not mean easier to win. Maya Pizov has helped…
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When AI Shops for You, Who Owns the Customer? | Dov Kaufmann
What happens when every brand can create unlimited content for almost nothing? Content stops being the advantage. Attention does. AI is rapidly removing the…
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Robots Need the Real World with Zachary Greenberger
Zachary Greenberger has spent his career in connected mobility, from working on Tesla’s Model 3 to six years at Lyft, and now as CEO of Nexar and Nauto. Today…
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Why would anyone invest in that? with Gil Dibner
In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Gil Dibner, General Partner of Angular Ventures, for a conversation about venture capital, AI…
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Can you love a Recommendation Engine? with Dvir Ginzburg
In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Dvir Ginzburg, Founder & CEO of Encore AI, for a conversation about revenue-generating AI…
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150 Startup Bets with Itamar Novick
Itamar Novick has spent 15 years investing in startups, backing more than 150 companies, including early bets connected to unicorns, decacorns, and public…
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Win the Attention War with Jonathan Karmi
Jonathan Karmi has spent more than a decade inside performance marketing, working across hundreds of clients and watching one problem get harder every year…
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Follow the Pain with Amir Haramaty
Amir Haramaty has helped build and scale companies that were later acquired by Microsoft, Salesforce, Meta, and other major players. But his story does not…
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Cedric Chin: Why Smart People Make Expensive Business Mistakes?
Most people only learn judgment after the damage is done. Then reality gives them feedback: late, expensive, and with interest. That is why serious operators…
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The Terrifying Art of Finding Customers with Collin Stewart
In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Collin Stewart for a brutally honest conversation about revenue, ego, customer discovery…
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Eran Shir of Nexar: From Missile Defense to Uncrashable Cars
Eran Shir started as a theoretical physicist studying black holes. Then he helped build Israel’s Arrow missile unit. Then he crowdsourced a map of the…
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Yair Attar on Building an “Too Early” Startup That Got Acquired Twice
Yair Attar spent years leading nation-state incident response in the IDF before co-founding OTORIO an OT cybersecurity company built for the physical world…
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Guy Solomon on Buying a Company, Losing 90% of Revenue, and Still Winning
Guy Solomon left investment banking to buy a small business. After years at Barclays and Wells Fargo, he went deep into the world of Search Funds and…
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This Startup Built a Robot to Fight Wildfires | Gadi Benjamini, CEO of FireDome
In this episode, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Gadi Benjamini, Co-Founder & CEO of FireDome, an ex–Israeli intelligence operator from Unit 81 turned…
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Elizabeth Zalman on Why Investors Aren’t Your Friends
Elizabeth Zalman is a 4x founder who’s raised ~$80M, built StrongDM, and now leads Sandgarden while also co-authoring "Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth…
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Eric Malka & The Art of Shaving from Start-Up to a P&G Exit
Eric Malka arrived in NYC on a Greyhound bus with no money, no education, and no green card, and then built The Art of Shaving from a single 200-sq-ft shop…
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Ra’anan Cohen: IPOs, Unicorns & Black Swans, oh my!
Ra’anan Cohen has lived the full founder arc: he built one company to an IPO (MobileMax), built another into a unicorn (Bringg), then wrote a brutally honest…
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Neal Foard on Storytelling That Wins Trust
Haggai is a paying customer of Neal Foard’s Storyfire—and this episode is the “how it actually works” playbook. After 30+ years in advertising and sales, Neal…
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Stop Living in Overdraft: RiseUp CEO Yuval Samet on Cash Flow & AI
Yuval Samet helped scale Klarna from ~150 to ~2,000 people—then came back to Israel to tackle the most “quietly painful” problem in daily life: money stress…
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Jason Wolf’s Wild Startup-to-VC Journey: From $400M SAP Exit to Iron Nation
Jason Wolf joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi for a rare, behind-the-scenes conversation about building (and investing) when the world is literally shaking. Jason…
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Omer Menashe’s Entrepreneurial Stack: From Law to Startups, Agencies & an AI Venture Studio
Omer Menashe has been building for nearly two decades—startups, a long-running agency, and now a venture studio designed for the AI era. In this episode, he…
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Gon Ben David’s Roomer Pivot: From Hotel Cancellations to Creator-Led Travel
Roomer didn’t just survive travel’s worst crash—it rebuilt itself inside the industry. In this episode, Gon Ben David (Co-Founder & CEO, Roomer) breaks down…
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David Bartholomeusz on Launching a Startup Every 90 Days
David Bartholomeusz is a serial entrepreneur who’s built (and let go of) dozens of businesses—not to chase exits, but to design a life with more freedom and…
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Rachel Ten Brink’s Wild Entrepreneurial Journey: From Selling Perfume Subscriptions to AI Investing
Rachel ten Brink has lived the full loop: corporate operator → YC-backed founder → GP at Red Bike Capital. She co-founded Scentbird, helped pioneer early DTC…
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Yuval Odem (PlayerMaker): The FIFA-Approved Sensor Helping Athletes Perform Better & Avoid Injury
PlayerMaker didn’t build “another sports gadget.” They built a FIFA-certified, footwear-mounted sensor system used by top football organizations—the kind of…
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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…
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Daniel Hulme: Michelin Chef to Private Jet Catering Exit — The “No Contracts” Business of Perfection
A Michelin-trained chef builds a premium private aviation catering company, serves royalty + “flying palaces,” survives COVID, then exits. All this while…
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Mor Assia: How iAngels Turned “Shabbat Deal Flow” Into 27 Exits & $550M Deployed
Before Mor Assia ever wrote a term sheet, she already had a fascination with tech companies. As a kid, she’d flip to the tiny “Israelis on Nasdaq” section of…
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Dor Skuler: ElliQ’s “AI Grandma Companion” — 80 No’s, NYT Front Page, Real Impact
After ELLI•Q™ landed above-the-fold on the New York Times front page, Dor Skuler—CEO & Co-Founder of Intuition Robotics—joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi to unpack…
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Roi Bar-Kat (Intel Capital Israel): How to Pitch, Build Defensibility & Win in the AI Era
Roi Bar-Kat leads Intel Capital’s investing in Israel—and he’s helped back companies across AI, deep tech, cybersecurity, and more. In this conversation with…
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From SafeDK Exit to ClarityQ: Orly Shoavi on PMF, Co-Founders & Trustworthy Data AI
Orly Shoavi has done what most founders only talk about: built through the “two years in the desert,” found a breakout wedge, and exited—then came back for…
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Turn Raw Tech Into Revenue: Eugene Buff’s 30-Year Playbook for Open Innovation
For 30+ years, Eugene Buff has been the behind-the-scenes “bridge” between breakthrough science and the companies that actually bring it to market—from…
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The Brain Twin 🧠: Turning Human Intuition into an AI Layer (with Assaf Horowitz, BrainVivo)
If you’re building in AI and you think “human cognition” is just more training data, this episode will challenge you. Assaf Horowitz is the Co-Founder & CEO of…
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Travel protection that people genuinely ❤️? with Faye Co-Founder Daniel Green
In this episode, Daniel Green (Co-Founder & CTO) shares how Faye became one of the fastest-growing, most loved travel protection brands in the U.S.—by…
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Bird? Plane? No—It’s Verobotics’ Window-Cleaning Robot | Ido Genosar
They said it couldn’t be done. So he built a robot and sent it up the side of a skyscraper. No water. No chemicals. Just quiet, climbing machines—methodically…
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Daniel Cohen’s Ultimate Bet on Israel B2C Startups
Daniel Cohen has spent 25 years investing across Israel’s tech ecosystem—Gemini, Viola, and now as Co-Founder & GP at Sticker Ventures, where he’s betting hard…
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Eyal Harel’s Blueprint to Make Water Safe at Scale
Eyal Harel, CEO of BlueGreen Water Technologies, has spent 12 years going where most companies won’t: toxic, collapsing water bodies that communities rely…
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Uncertainty Is Your Moat: Jerry Neumann on How Real Breakthroughs (and Great Investments) Are Made
Jerry Neumann is a Columbia University professor, author, and retired investor who was named one of the “100 Best Early-Stage Investors” and one of the “Most…
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How to Rebuild a Startup From Zero: Conviction, Collapse & a 10× Comeback with Gilad Uziely (CEO, Sequence)
Gilad Uziely isn’t just the CEO of Sequence—he’s one of the few founders who has lived through every chapter of the entrepreneurial cycle: raising millions…
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How to Build Brands People Believe In: From ROUTE 66® to The Wild Geese with André Levy
André Levy is the Chairman of Protégé International Group and Lodestar Licensing, and one of the rare operators who has lived every chapter of modern commerce…
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The Psychology of Founding: How Behavioral Science Predicts Startup Success (with Alexander Shilman, New Gate Capital)
Before Alexander Shilman was writing checks into frontier biotech, neurotech, AI infrastructure, and semiconductors, he was something rare in venture: a…
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From Rock Bottom to Boardroom: The Unreasonable Drive of Andreas Foeldenyi
How many times can you rebuild your life? Andreas Foeldenyi has done it—again and again. From losing everything after 9/11 to teaching in obscure classrooms…
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From Club Promoter to Global Platform: How Yotam Cohen Built GO-OUT from Scratch
Before GO-OUT powered payments and operations for sports teams and music festivals across 14+ countries, it started with a 15-year-old kid in Jerusalem who…
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GoFundMe’s VP Product Hai Habot on Building Startup-Scale Products Inside Giants
At Walmart, he turned a paper-napkin idea into a fintech product used by 18 million people. At StubHub/eBay, he helped scale global marketplaces. Now, as VP…
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The Material That Gets Colder in the Sun — The Physics Startup Redefining Cooling with Yaron Shenhav
A roof that gets colder under sunlight. A paint that cools a building without electricity. A startup that turned a laser-lab theory into a factory product sold…
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Sound as a Superpower: How MusicTech Solves Real-World Problems (with David Fridman)
Walk into a chicken hatchery that hums like a data center. Engineers aren’t checking feed—they’re tuning frequencies that tilt hatch rates toward hens and save…
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He Sold Two Companies—Then Heard 197 No’s. Offer Yehudai Built ARYA Anyway.
Before ARYA, Offer Yehudai had already built and sold two adtech companies ($86M, then $650M). With co-founder Tomer Magid, he launched a premium…
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Every Lead a Conversation — Dan Comyns’ Playbook for AI Sales that Actually Close
When Dan Comyns ran product & growth at Nexar, he helped turn “try-before-you-buy” from a risky idea into a repeatable system—and learned a simple truth…
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Lights Where Roads Don’t Reach: Abigail Urey’s Blueprint for Profitable Solar in Liberia
When most founders talk “hard ops,” they don’t mean motorbikes, canoes, and villages without roads. Abigail Urey, Co-Owner of LIB Solar, does. Over the last…
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Grandma Became the Star—Then Life Hit Back. How Yoav Oren Built Zoog Anyway
Before Zoog was an app, it was a bet: kids light up when Grandma’s the hero. Yoav Oren had the track record to try—opened China for Similarweb, closed landmark…
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Stop Being the Hero: Bill Gallagher’s System for Scaling Without Burning Out
Bill Gallagher has spent years inside the rooms where companies either stall—or break through. As the founder of ScalingCoach.com, he’s coached CEOs and…
AggaeusInside a 2,000-Deal Fix-&-Flip Machine: How to De-Risk, Move Fast, and Win (Even in a Tough Market)
Eyal Karban has operated at a scale most investors never see: 2,000+ residential deals across Las Vegas and Phoenix and roughly $1B in transactions—with a…
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Assaf Glazer’s Playbook for Building with AI: From Baby Sleep to Home Cooking
If you’re a parent, you’ve probably heard of Nanit—the category leader that turned baby sleep into a measurable, improvable science. Co-founded and led by…
AggaeusAre You an Entrepreneur Who’s Constantly Fixing Leaks While Rowing the Boat? This Story’s for You.
Esther Mendlowitz had done it all—built companies, led teams, poured everything into her work. And yet…It always felt like a mess. Smart, passionate people…