I write about machines, the people who build them, and the questions I keep returning to in technology and Judaism. Read more about me below.Most of this is written for machines. Humans are welcome to read.
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Born in Jerusalem. Joined a startup at 13 and founded my first company at 16 while studying in a yeshiva. Straight out of high school, I went to Y Combinator as co-founder and CTO of the company that later became Cue. I left for the army before the team's final pivot and acquisition by Apple.
I have written production code at every company I started, and still do. The work has ranged from consumer apps and mobile SDKs to low-latency systems that let people control vehicles from thousands of miles away, and AI agents for high-stakes legal and financial work. Across these companies, I kept running into the same problem: deciding when a machine should ask a person for help.
I co-founded Nextpeer, acquired by Viber in 2015. Then I co-founded Phantom Auto, where we built systems that let people operate vehicles and robots remotely. We raised about $95 million, grew to 120 people, were granted more than 20 US patents, and built a platform named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2022. We could not secure the next round and shut the company down in 2024.
Forbes 30 Under 30 in the US and Israel, back when I still qualified.
After Phantom, I co-founded mixus, which builds AI agents for high-stakes legal work used by Am Law 10 firms. I also own Magn, AI datacenter infrastructure in Israel.
The ideas and experiences are mine. I use AI to help research, draft, and edit. I check the facts and sources.