Uri Levine, 2x Unicorn Builder Waze & Moovit, Entrepreneur and Disruptor, Author
- Uri Levine (http://urilevine.com/) is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a two-time ‘unicorn’ builder (Duocorn).
- He is co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, ‘Waze of public transportation, which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.
Podcast
Overview
Starting a Business is one of the biggest challenges any entrepreneur will face. There are many questions to answer at the very beginning when starting a business, but the most difficult one is the question of what exactly you want to do. Today we have Uri Levine, 2x Unicorn Builder Waze & Moovit, Entrepreneur and Disruptor, Author to talk about his experience of starting a business.
00:09- About Uri Levine
- Uri Levine (http://urilevine.com/) is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a two-time ‘unicorn’ builder (Duocorn).
- He is co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, ‘Waze of public transportation, which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.
- Levine heads the “The Found CHAOers Kitchen,” a company-builder fund. Among Uri’s startups are Pontera (formerly FeeX), FairFly, Refundit, and SeeTree, and he is always working on the next one. Also, Levine’s first book, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepreneurs, will be published on January 17, 2023.
01:18- What were the inflection points in your life?
- It’s probably fulfilling my destiny and always following the passion and the desire to make a bigger impact.
- It was the choice to go into the tech space. I do not take things for granted.
- I would challenge pretty much everything until I get my satisfied answers.
03:11- Israel: An amazing ecosystem for startups
- Military service in Israel is mandatory, and you go there at the age of 18. And you stay there for at least three years for males and two years for females. It matures you faster.
- You understand working in teams, you understand leadership, and you understand that giving up is not an option.
- This makes you a better entrepreneur and a better leader.
- In Israel, the fear of failure is relatively low. As a result of which more people are willing to go into the entrepreneurship journey.
13:00- What led you to do your first startup?
- My first startup was actually dealing with mobile email.
- This was in 2000, at the beginning of smartphones.
- there was a need to access your email from your mobile phone, and we actually build a system that enables that. And that ended up eventually, as a failure.
18:45- How did you manage volatility with your team?
- All businesses in the world have ups and downs.
- The frequency of those in a startup is way higher than in any other business.
- The reality is that we are trying to do multiple things that no one did before.
- And we have the conviction that we know exactly what we are doing. But the reality is that we don’t, so we try. We keep on trying different things until we find one thing that does work.
RESOURCES:
You can connect with Uri Levine | LinkedIn
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Profile
- Uri Levine (http://urilevine.com/) is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a two-time ‘unicorn’ builder (Duocorn).
- He is co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, ‘Waze of public transportation, which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.
- Levine heads the “The Found CHAOers Kitchen,” a company-builder fund. Among Uri’s startups are Pontera (formerly FeeX), FairFly, Refundit, and SeeTree, and he is always working on the next one. Also, Levine’s first book, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepreneurs, will be published on January 17, 2023.
