Founder Storiez
by ephraim yarmak
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About this podcast
The purpose of "FounderStoriez Channel" is to interview Entrepreneurs from around the world to share their story, experience, and wisdom with you so you can learn from them and be inspired.
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- Rotem Lurie (Venice Security) on Intuition, Sacrifice, and Leading as a Woman · 1 h 6 min · Episode 180Rotem Lurie was an investor at YL Ventures, watching founders fresh out of the army raise money, and going home asking her husband why they thought they could do it and she…
- Ariel Sterman (Bessemer Venture Partners): The Pass Note That Won the Deal, Making Partner, and Playing VC's Long Game · 1 h 19 min · Episode 179Ariel Sterman is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and, by his own admission, a deeply anxious person. Recorded on his birthday, this is the most personal conversation he's…
- Israel Duanis (CEO, Linx Security) The Loneliness of Building a Company, Saying No to 7 Figures & the Drive to Prove Yourself · 1 h 11 min · Episode 178Israel Duanis sold his first company, then started Linx Security, an identity security platform for the AI-agent era. This conversation is the honest version of the founder…
- Erica Brescia: From Founder to GitHub COO to VC | Grit, Guilt & Trusting Your Gut · 57 min · Episode 177Erica Brescia has done it all in tech: she founded and sold Bitnami, served as COO of GitHub during the launch of Copilot, and is now a Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures…
- Secret Service, Wiz & The Money That Was For His Son | Steve Ward, BrightMind · 1 h 33 min · Episode 176Steve Ward has been a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, a Secret Service agent who ran one of the first computer-network wiretaps in U.S. history, the CISO of Home Depot, a partner at…
- Niv Braun (CEO, Noma Security): Winning Mentality, $100M Series B, and the Hidden Cost of Building Fast · 1 h 22 min · Episode 174Niv is the co-founder and CEO of Noma Security. He raised a $100M Series B and scaled from 20 to 100 employees in a year, as a first-time founder, in cybersecurity, in the middle…
- Raj (CEO, Jetstream): Two Traffic Lights to $34M — and Why CrowdStrike Funded the Founder Who Left · 1 h 15 min · Episode 175Raj grew up in a town in India with two traffic lights. He's now the CEO of Jetstream, a cybersecurity startup he founded after leaving CrowdStrike, which then turned around and…
- How Elite Founders Think | Shachar Hirschberg, CEO of Artemis · 55 min · Episode 173Shachar Hirschberg, Co-founder & CEO of Artemis Security, on building a cybersecurity company with thirty employees, one manager, and no traditional titles, only "Builders." We…
- Dean Shahar (DTCP) How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions With Incomplete Information · 57 min · Episode 172In this episode, I sit down with Dean Shahar to discuss the reality of venture capital decision-making. Investors often have to make high-stakes decisions with incomplete…
- Lia Cromwell (UpWest): What VCs Really Think After Your Pitch · 1 h 10 min · Episode 171Lia Cromwell, Partner at UpWest, joins us for a candid conversation about venture capital, founder psychology, and the signals most entrepreneurs misread during fundraising. We…
- Shay Sandler (Vega) Grit, Sales, and Security, The Founder Mindset · 1 h 20 min · Episode 170In this powerful conversation, We sit down with Shay Sandler, co-founder of Vega, to unpack how grit, identity, and discipline shaped his journey from immigrant kid to elite…
- Rom Carmel (Apono): From Nigeria to Series B. The Journey of Apono · 1 h 7 min · Episode 168Rom Carmel, CEO & Co-Founder of Apono, shares a deeply personal founder story from running his first business at age seven in Nigeria to leading a $54M, post-Series B…
- Ori Barzilay (Team8): Winning Mentality, Humility, and Founder Excellence · 58 min · Episode 167In this episode, we sit down with Ori Barzilay, Partner at Team8, to explore what truly drives exceptional founders and investors. Ori shares his journey from elite military…
- Zohar Einy Founder Port.io: Building a $800M Company with Belief and Discipline · 1 h 7 min · Episode 166In this deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation, Zohar Einy, Founder & CEO of Port.io, shares the real story behind building one of the fastest-growing developer platforms…
- Jacques Benkoski (USVP): Money, Mentors & The Lost Art of Venture Capital · 51 min · Episode 165Jacques Benkoski, Managing Partner at USVP, joins the show for a candid, wise, and insightful conversation on venture capital, company building, and life. Jacques opens up about…
- Dan Povitsky: The Vine Ventures Story: Faith, Focus, and Founders · 1 h 0 min · Episode 164In this episode of Founder Stories, we sit down with Dan Povitsky, co-founder of Vine Ventures, to explore the deeply personal and professional story behind one of the…
- Dor Fledel: Building Spera, Getting Acquired by Okta & Lessons from the Founder Journey · 1 h 25 min · Episode 163In this episode of Founder StorieZ, I sit down with my good friend Dor Fledel, co-founder and CEO of Spera, which was acquired by Okta. Dor opens up about his childhood lessons…
- Dean Sysman: The Relentless Founder Behind a $2B Cyber Unicorn · 1 h 9 min · Episode 162Dean Sysman, CEO and co-founder of Axonius, built a $2 billion cybersecurity company—but his real story starts long before that. In this raw, powerful conversation, Dean opens up…
- From $900 to Billion-Dollar Ventures: A Journey of Resilience and Innovation | Dheeraj Pandery Founder DevRev & Nutanix · 1 h 3 min · Episode 161Join us for an inspiring conversation with Dheeraj, who arrived in the U.S. with just $900 and went on to found tech giants Nutanix and DevRev. From growing up in one of India’s…
- Inside the VC Game: Conversations with Rising Stars Morgan Gerlak TCV, Jordan Segall Redpoint Ventures, James Green CRV · 44 min · Episode 160Three top-tier rising VCs – Jordan Siegel (RedPoint), James Green (CRV), and Morgan Gerlak (TCV) – pull back the curtain on venture capital. In this candid conversation, these…
