Israel

“I think in, in general, the average product manager salary in Israel is around 95, 100,000 a year.”

“The reason is, is because Swedes very similar to Israelis, very similar to Koreans work very hard, but have to go global. There's no real big home market. And I'm always like those type of markets because it forces the company to go global. It can't just sit o…”

“We set up basically the first equal partnership in Israel, modeled after Benchmark, which is one of the greatest venture firms of all time”

“So actually the ecosystem in Israel is the second largest in the world after, after the U S in both terms of number of startups. And also in the number of investments being made here.”

“I think they started a little lower, but as a lot more tech companies came to Israel, and I think Tel Aviv, you know, is the second largest tech ecosystem in the world after San Francisco, the prices have kind of gone out rapidly.”

“Israel has a very powerful VC ecosystem. Very powerful. So, so there's a lot of capital in Israel. It's not different than from any other place like Silicon Valley in New York.”

“So, currently we are 23 employees. 21 in Israel and two in the U.S.”

“The way that the training goes, and how people support each other, and this is exactly one of the, what is making Israeli, the, you know, startup nation, that we know how to support each other.”

“I think the magic in Israel is actually the army. If you think about it, the Israeli army is taking young people, putting them in high stress environment for a few years, making them solve big problems very quickly together, and then they finish the army and t…”

“We are operating mainly in Israel and in Europe, and most of our customers don't even know about Zometry.”

“There's something when everyone has to get enlisted to the army that kind of ranks people on what they like to do and should do in life when they're 18, which makes decisions easier.”

“So we have seven people in Israel and three in the US today.”

“Finally, the late stage funds have discovered Israel. So we see, we call them crossover fund, but it's really late stage that are allowing Israeli companies to run all the way and not sell themselves too early to American corporations. Like we did, let's say f…”

“And it's fully independent. It's structured in a way. So if the entire IDF, the entire state of Israel crumbles to dust, it should still be able to function on its own.”

“And six years ago, I found a company in that specific area as well, providing hedging for small, medium businesses in Israel. And in that specific company, I have already 1500 companies that are doing business with me.”

“Most senior ones take around maybe between 15 and 20,000 dollars per month.”