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Michael Eisenberg

Co-founder of Aleph, Aleph

Search every verified Michael Eisenberg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Michael Eisenberg hosted Yuval Kaminka, co-founder and CEO of Simply, on the Invested podcast in an episode released October 8, 2026. During the conversation, Kaminka discussed Simply's near-bankruptcy, the decision to fire a third of the company's staff, and the company's subsequent growth. Eisenberg and Kaminka also addressed the death of Kaminka's co-founder, Roey Izkovsky, two years prior, and Kaminka's nephew, who was killed during the war starting October 7. Kaminka described the company's principles of co-building and resilience, stating that being a co-founder means being willing to do whatever it takes for the company. In the episode, Kaminka also discussed Simply's approach to competition, including with Duolingo, saying that the company is aware of competitors and learns from them, while emphasizing the need to continually disrupt oneself. He shared examples of emotional user responses to Simply's product, including generational family experiences, and noted that strong user reactions indicate good product-market fit.

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“We were out of money. We were approaching... it was a very defining moment. We created a very aggressive plan that included firing a third of the company and we were small. A third of the company in any size is very dramatic but was very family community like and was a very dramatic moment with a very strong plan of how we not just get amazing growth but also reach break even and beyond kind of own our destiny. And a”

“Israel is entering a new phase right now. 78 years into its existence, we are, whether we like it or not, a regional superpower at this point. With with all its risks and upsides. Israelis, I find this over and over and over again, don't take this personally, are far more provincial than those who grow up in superpowers, whether they grew up in Russia or the United States.”

“I think part of your asking the question says we're missing a mission. The mission was 78 years ago we got to build the country, sell land, create a defense force that can defend us, and then we had another mission. We had to kind of build an economy that can support our defense needs, which we still need to do. And I wrote a piece in the paper about building the trillion-dollar Israeli economy, and I think that's im”

“I think we're not far from a day where Israel is going to need to rescue a Jewish community. It's not far away. It's scary to think about, but it's not far away. Where is it we're going to need to? No, we are responsible to do that. That is our response in in Ethiopia. We are responsible for that. That is our responsibility to them. The diaspora Jewry was here for Israel in its early days and now the roles are revers”

“We're losing 45% of all bee colonies every single year, year over year. On the planet. Today we have 36% of the bee stock we had 50 years ago. That's it. Once that's gone, it's gone. Because bees pollinate 75% of all our fruit and vegetables all around the world, we would not be able to feed 8 billion people without bee pollination.”

“I think it leads us to a society... there's just going to be this these like swaths of people that are like completely brainwashed. We were talking about this kind of short form content and so these algorithms will feed them whatever they want to see. They're going to keep scrolling through. They're just going to like keep moving along their everyday lives and they're going to be these people who very early on chose ”

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