Ep122: Liraz Margalit | Behavioral Economics & Customer Experience

Didi founded SkyX in 2016 and it currently employs dozens of workers in offices in Canada, the U.S., Romania, and Israel. SkyX develops autonomous aircraft capable of scanning large swathes of land and analyzing the data to offer clients artificial intelligence-generated predictions on infrastructure projects. Its services enable organizations to make calculated decisions on their infrastructure health, reduce risks related to remote holdings, and lower maintenance and insurance costs.

12 Mar 202121min

Eddie Arrieta is a Colombia entrepreneur whose ventures navigate marketing, gastronomy, tourism and agritech. Today he continues to build businesses and help startups and entrepreneurs from around the world understand the importance of communications and purpose when growing ventures.

11 Mar 202121min

Zvika is a General Partner at Viola Ventures. Prior to joining Viola, he was the co-founder and CTO of Lifebeam, an artificial-intelligence wearables technology company. Since he joined the fund 4 years ago, Zvika has led investments in cutting-edge, innovative, and high-risk domains, from computational biology to deep tech, bringing his unparalleled technological expertise as a CTO and his background in biomedical engineering.

10 Mar 202122min

Tom is a leading behavioral economics specialist. Tom helps startups and non-profits utilize psychological principles in their products. Tom is the founder of Israel's largest professional community of high-tech executives devoted to behavioral economics, which includes over 3,000 members. Tom also created a full animated course about influence techniques and gave it away for free (no upsells). Tom is a former lawyer with an MBA in cybersecurity (He deliberately chose to study fields he knew he'll never practice in real life).

9 Mar 202121min

Eilon is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer at Gong. Gong is the leading solution provider in the revenue intelligence space, helping revenue teams understand how to help their team members succeed, how to better track deals and how to understand the voice of the market. Gong is a high-growth SaaS vendor and recently announced a funding round with a $2.2b valuation. Prior to Gong, Eilon was a co-founder of Webcollage, a SaaS provider in the marketing infrastructure space, following many years in various roles in the software space. Eilon resides in Tel Aviv, Israel, but used to visit the US often prior to COVID.

8 Mar 202121min

Matteo Boffa is a Swiss Social and Environmental Entrepreneur, resident in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years. After dedicating over 9 years of his career in the world of finance (Swiss Private Banker) and nearly 2 years in the Swiss Army (Chief Sergeant Major), he decided to make a radical change in his life and undertake a path linked to sustainability and the protection of the environment. In September 2020 Matteo was awarded as 30 under 30 by Forbes.

6 Mar 202121min

Kelly is on a mission to change the way the world learns and builds skills. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed as the chief learning/talent officer and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed, which was named one of the best business books of 2019.

5 Mar 202121min

Vijay Krishnan is the Co-Founder & CTO, of Turing.com. Turing enables US companies to hire and manage the top 1% of over 200,000 registered software developers from all over the world's remote software developers all over the world. The Turing platform vets developers for programming skills, CS fundamentals, tech stack skills as well as communication skills, and soft skills. At Turing Vijay leads data science efforts that drive automation in vetting, matching, and managing remote developers. Previously Vijay founded another AI company, Rover, that got acquired by Revcontent, where he was SVP of Data Science. Vijay was a scientist at Yahoo’s Data Mining and Research group and holds a patent on large-scale text categorization. Vijay has  Computer Science degrees (specializing in AI) from Stanford University and IIT Bombay.He lives in Palo Alto, California. You can find Vijay on Twitter and LinkedIn.

4 Mar 202121min