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Ran Korber

Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2014, Korber co-founded BreezoMeter, an environmental intelligence startup providing real-time air quality data, leading it as CEO until its acquisition by Google in 2022. Following the exit, he authored the entrepreneurial book Grasping at Air and lectures on entrepreneurship at the Technion.

17statements → 12claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.88/5average certainty → 1.41/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

12 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 8 name 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 Ran 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
Korber: One-Hour Air Pollution Exposure Can Trigger Asthma Attacks and Premature Birth
“And even for a short-term exposure of only one hour, ah, to air pollution, that can also, ah, that might create an asthma attack and increase the risk for premature birth.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 7:29 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Korber: BreezoMeter is the only provider publishing accuracy reports
“We are the only company in the world, probably the only authority in the world that publish its accuracy. On a very clear, you can download accuracy reports in our website.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 17:33 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ran Korber on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ran Korber said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter helped enterprise clients increase sales by over $1B
“We already helped our customers, leading companies like GE, Dyson, Cisco, Motorola, to increase their sales by more than one billion US dollar last year.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 2:15 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Contradicted
Korber: BreezoMeter is the only provider publishing accuracy reports
“We are the only company in the world, probably the only authority in the world that publish its accuracy. On a very clear, you can download accuracy reports in our website.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 17:33 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Supported
Korber: One-Hour Air Pollution Exposure Can Trigger Asthma Attacks and Premature Birth
“And even for a short-term exposure of only one hour, ah, to air pollution, that can also, ah, that might create an asthma attack and increase the risk for premature birth.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 7:29 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Supported
Korber: Air pollution is hyperlocal and changes faster than weather
“What people are not aware, and this is the main challenge of Resometer, is that air pollution change more often than weather, and it is hyperlocal. So air pollution change between street to street.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 21:02 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Insight
Korber: Military mutual support ethos drives Israeli startup ecosystem
“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.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 24:53 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Partly supported
Korber: Dyson uses BreezoMeter data to automatically activate air purifiers
“And for example, Dyson, the famous IoT company, which is famous for their vacuum cleaner, but they also have a humidifier and an air purifier, is using brisometer air quality data, and using our data, the Dyson air purifier, turn on whenever the air quality ou…”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 2:55 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter is generating between $1M and $10M in ARR
“So he mentioned that, you know, the company goes from the impossible to inventable, and the impossible is one million dollar in ARR, and the inventable is ten million dollar in ARR, and we are somewhere in between.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 6:00 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Disclosure
Korber: BreezoMeter has raised over $5M across two rounds
“We currently raise more than five million U.S. Dollars in two rounds.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 8:39 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: Each BreezoMeter sales rep generates $500k to $1M in ARR
“So it's very similar to most us companies. Like every sales rep give you between 500 to one million dollar in annual revenue.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 16:20 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Disclosure
Korber: BreezoMeter's annual customer churn is under 5%
“Yeah, less, less than five percent.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 17:14 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter's average customer pays up to $1,000 per month
“No, no higher than 1000 dollars per month. I can say on average,”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 5:53 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: Half of BreezoMeter R&D Team Are Environmental Engineers
“Before that, I have to say that I am environmental engineer, and this is also, ah, also half of our R&D, our environmental engineers.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 6:51 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Disclosure
Korber: BreezoMeter employs 23 people across Israel and the US
“So, currently we are 23 employees. 21 in Israel and two in the U.S.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 8:25 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter serves about 30 enterprise customers reaching millions of users
“So in terms of users, it's million of users, but it comes from about 30 companies. And again, each one of them are enterprise.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 10:15 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter requires customer apps to display 'Powered by BreezoMeter' branding
“So every time a company use our data, they provide attribution to Breezometer, powered by Breezometer, and on the about us, and similar.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 11:26 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: All of BreezoMeter's Customers Are Enterprise Clients
“So, because we, all of our customers are enterprises, and we fit according to their demand.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 13:03 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Disclosure
Korber: BreezoMeter employs four sales reps plus one founder assisting sales
“Currently we have four, and also of course one of the founders also helping with sales.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 16:35 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In

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718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In Jul 12, 2017 13m
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