Ido Gino

Founder & CEO, Datawizz · 1 appearance on the record.

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As a teenager in 2015, Gino founded the API marketplace RapidAPI, leading it to unicorn status before stepping down as CEO in 2023. In 2025, he launched Datawizz, an AI startup developing specialized language models and routing software to reduce enterprise LLM inference costs.

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3 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ido argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
M-Systems founder Dov Moran provided RapidAPI's first angel check
“We actually met with Dov Moran, who is an ex founder. He founded M systems an Israeli company. And he put the first money in, which kind of helped us grow rapid and establish it.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 5:04 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
148,000 projects connect to Slack's API via RapidAPI
“It means a 148 thousand apps or projects are using that to connect.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 5:42 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tel Aviv is the second largest tech ecosystem after San Francisco
“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.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 4:10 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino
Disclosure
RapidAPI takes a 10% to 25% marketplace fee
“It's typically from 10 to 25%.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 2:20 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino
Assertion Supported
M-Systems founder Dov Moran provided RapidAPI's first angel check
“We actually met with Dov Moran, who is an ex founder. He founded M systems an Israeli company. And he put the first money in, which kind of helped us grow rapid and establish it.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 5:04 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino
Assertion Contradicted
148,000 projects connect to Slack's API via RapidAPI
“It means a 148 thousand apps or projects are using that to connect.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 5:42 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino
Disclosure
RapidAPI takes its platform fees from API vendors, not consumers
“Yeah, and that fee is taken from the API vendor who's using the platform to distribute the API, so not from the API consumer.”
Ido Gino Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 7:06 EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with CEO Iddo Gino

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 628: RapidAPI w/ 19 YO Founder Raises $3.5M, Helping You Connect to API's Faster with C Apr 13, 2017 5m
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