Tech

War is Widening the Divide in Startup Nation

Funding is holding at the top while early-stage companies face delays, cancellations, and rising closure risk.

Mar 30 • James Spiro

Claude Updates Are Killing Startups. How Should Founders Respond? - #0062, Eyal Fisher

Sweet Security’s Eyal Fisher has a warning for founders building with AI, and a survival strategy for young people entering the workforce.

Mar 29 • James Spiro

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The Invisible Workforce Behind the World’s Biggest Events - #0061, Omri Dekalo

Behind every concert or sporting event is a workforce of thousands: disconnected, temporary, and difficult to manage. Ubeya is turning that chaos into a…

Mar 26 • James Spiro

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ICYMI: Highlights from The Spiro Circle & Forbes Israel

Some standout insights from the first 30 conversations with Startup Nation's founders and investors.

Mar 24 • James Spiro

"Keep It Platonic": Why Founders Shouldn’t Date Their Product - #0053, Eylam Milner

Milner shares why letting go can be as important as building, and how it shaped his second startup, Echo Security.

Mar 1 • James Spiro

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AI “Interviews” Iran’s Generals... and Most Want a Military Successor to Khamenei

Israeli startup AskIt has built “synthetic personalities” of 122 real commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps amid regional tensions and…

Feb 23 • James Spiro

It's Time to Stop Asking if AI Will Replace Creators - #0051, Victor Varnado

We discuss the intersection of tech, AI, and comedy, as Victor prepares to become the world's most benign supervillain.

Feb 22 • James Spiro

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AI Didn’t Break the Cloud. It Revealed What Was Already Broken - #0047, Roi Ravhon

Years of unmanaged cloud complexity are colliding with the economics of AI. Companies like Finout are helping fix it.

Feb 10 • James Spiro

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BLOG: In Israel, Innovation and Grief Share the Same Moment

My latest post in The Times of Israel explores the country's two realities of war and tech innovation, and what happens when those moments meet.

Jan 27 • James Spiro

Accounting's Netflix Moment - #0039, Isaac Heller

Legacy studios weren’t ready for streaming. The Big Four now face the same test as AI reshapes the accounting sector.

Jan 11 • James Spiro

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How Israeli Tech is Modernizing the World’s Biggest Asset Class - #0036, Lior Dolinski

A $400 trillion real estate industry is finally moving beyond Excel, led by a startup founded by veterans of the IDF's Unit 8200.

Dec 28, 2025 • James Spiro

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Verbit: Bringing AI to a courtroom near you - #0035, Yair Amsterdam

With Forbes Israel: The company's Legal Visor tool offers lawyers and courtrooms a 'second chair' that transcribes and analyses proceedings in real…

Dec 24, 2025 • James Spiro

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