

20MinuteLeaders
Michael Matias
20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.
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Jan 13, 2023 • 22min
Ep995: Bobby Pinero | CEO and co-founder, Equals
Bobby is the CEO of Equals, a next generation spreadsheet with live connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. He previously ran Finance and Analytics at Intercom.

Jan 12, 2023 • 22min
Ep994: Joe Natoli | Founder, LOOFT Inc.
Joe Natoli has had many titles throughout his career: actor, game designer, educator, full-stack developer and entrepreneur. His passion for delighting people through technology led him to found LOOFT, the world’s first world’s first cooling and heating comfort service company while working at a venture builder in Leipzig, Germany. Joe brings knowledge of international startups, Silicon Valley and more, having worked with billionaire investor Tim Draper, Draper University, teaching entrepreneurship around the world from Africa to Asia. Afterwards, Joe settled in Europe to put his knowledge to work by forming ventures in the underserved market of Eastern Germany. Joe could be considered the ultimate startup guy, having built, founded or failed over a dozen startup businesses.

Jan 11, 2023 • 21min
Ep993: Wilko Visser | Founder and CEO, ValueBlue
Wilko Visser is the CEO at ValueBlue, a company behind the SaaS platform BlueDolphin: an Enterprise Architecture tool for Agile Business Transformation. Prior to starting the company in 2011, Wilko spent time as a senior executive across both self-started organizations and private corporations with thousands of employees. A strong believer in the promises of digital transformation, Wilko is excited about the innovation BlueDolphin is enabling for organizations across the globe.

Jan 10, 2023 • 24min
Ep992: Bracha Halaf | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio
Bracha Halaf, Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Gravity Climate-Fund & Venture Studio, discusses the importance of climatic startups. They explore perspectives on climate change and innovative technologies for reducing CO2 emissions. The chapter also explores recycling and synthetic fuels for the aviation industry. The challenges of implementing sustainable energy solutions and the role of digitization in optimizing climate technologies are highlighted.

Jan 9, 2023 • 35min
Ep991: Tyler Bryden | Co-Founder, Speak Ai
Tyler Bryden is an experienced business owner, marketer, and product leader passionate about improving human-computer interaction to unlock personal and professional growth. He currently leads Speak Ai, a technology company supported by Techstars that uses speech-to-text and natural language processing to automatically extract valuable insights from audio, video, and text. 7,000+ researchers, marketers, and data professionals use Speak Ai's intuitive platform to capture and analyze language data for better decision-making.

Jan 8, 2023 • 21min
Ep990: Roee Shibolet | Head of Israel R&D Center, Intuitive Israel
Roee is Head of the Israel R&D center for intuitive Surgical, a US Robotic Surgery company that revolutionised minimal invasive surgery with the DaVinci robot. Roee has more than 20 years of technology experience in the medical domain. Roee has led software, data and algorithm groups in areas including automatic inspection, artificial inteligence and digital solutions. Introducing products from POC to FDA approval. His current group is part of Intuitive's digital organization and is devlopping the digital platform for hosting applications that enhance the healthcare team's ability to improve and provide the best care for patients. Roee holds a Bsc in Computer Science and a MBA.

Jan 7, 2023 • 21min
Ep989: Ziv Elul | CEO, Periapt
Ziv Elul hes a Entrepreneur, CEO and founder. The digital advertising company 'Ineractive' which he founded together with Ofer Yehudai was sold in the first round for 86 million dollars to the German Faber company. Elol served as CEO for 12 years of the company. In 2021, Fyber was sold in a deal worth 650 million dollars and in the same year Elul established a new startup called Periapt. He is an avid investor and board member of several start-up companies. Lt. Col. in res. Holds a master's degree in business administration with honors from the Hebrew University and is one of its board of trustees.

Jan 6, 2023 • 21min
Ep988: Amit Kumar Agarwal | Founder & CEO, NoBroker.com
Amit Kumar Agarwal is the CEO and Co-founder of NoBroker.com, India's first proptech unicorn. He defines and guides the overall vision at NoBroker and spearheads the company’s business strategies. Amit, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and IIM, Ahmedabad, was a banking and finance veteran for over 13 years prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey. Amit has been revolutionizing the house-hunting experience for home seekers across India and is making the discovery process more hassle-free. NoBroker has democratised the house hunting process and empowered the tenants/buyers/sellers to have seamless real estate transactions free from the pressures, biases and manipulations that are quintessential of offline transactions. To date, NoBroker has saved upwards of INR 10,000crores in brokerage for its customers.

Jan 6, 2023 • 21min
Ep987: Ilit Raz | CEO and Founder, Joonko
Ilit Raz is the CEO and founder of Joonko, the ultimate automated diversity recruiting software solution. She comes with over 18 years of experience working in various product management and team management roles in tech startups and 7 years in the highly regarded IDF intelligence unit 8200, with vast experience in NLP. She holds a Computer Science degree (Bsc.) and an Executive MBA. As a working woman in tech, usually being the only woman in the room, she experienced bias firsthand and began her journey towards workforce-related DE&I initiatives and decided to change the way people work. That's when she founded Joonko.

Jan 5, 2023 • 21min
Ep986: Art Harrison | Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer, Daylight
Art Harrison is co-founder and chief growth officer at Daylight. With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Art started his career as an entrepreneur, building some of the first generation social networking dating sites with over 2,000,000 registered users. He is a dynamic and passionate speaker.