Itamar is back from the States... did he get the powder Hillel asked for... ? You'll never believe why 🤣 We spoke about: Apple planning an iPhone subscription service - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/apple-is-working-on-a-hardware-subscription-service-for-iphones Elon musk tweeting about the need to replace Twitter https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267 TikTok being sued for psychological damage https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/former-tiktok-content-mo...
Mar 29, 2022•50 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Bootstrap went global! Well, not completely, but some of us were traveling. And it was a relatively slow tech news week, so the guys played a game that Guy prepared! And we got to hear about Hillel's latest obsession, as well as some hilarious travel related stories. This one was fun. Trust me. Shout-outs and stuff we referenced: Family Guy: Invention of Reeses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7et6-nByfw8 Fly on the wall podcast - https://shows.cadence13.com/podcast/fly-on-the-wall Let me ...
Mar 21, 2022•44 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast It seems like the world is preoccupied with the more wheels vs doors debate, so we step in and help settle that. But what else is going on? Well, the boys took a two week hiatus, so Hillel could travel, get pedicures, etc. The man needed some TREAT Yo' SELF time. But we also spoke about: TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/28/tiktok-expands-max-video-length-to-10-minutes-up-from-3-minutes/ Apple event! - New iPhone SE - New iPad Air - Mac Studio ...
Mar 13, 2022•53 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast "I don't know anything about Peloton or fitness AND I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT" -Hillel Ok, so maybe that's not an exact quote, but it covers the spirit of what he said. But guess what? Peloton was in the news and we talked about as best we could :) What else did we chat about this week? Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/16/22937826/spotify-podsights-chartable-acquisitions-podcast-marketing-platforms Peloton’s new CEO ...
Feb 21, 2022•47 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast It was another hostful week! Full cast :) We finally weighed in on the Spotify/Rogan thing. It has been festering for weeks, so we couldn't ignore it any longer. And we finally got some local startup product news in there too! This week's news: We finally talked about the whole Joe Rogan and Spotify thing https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/07/spotify-will-invest-100m-in-content-from-underrepresented-creators-says-ceo-daniel-ek/ Israeli startup funding! Deepdub.ai raises $20m for AI Powered...
Feb 15, 2022•52 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Are you recovering from your whiplash from last week's episode? Have no fear, Itamar is back, ba-by! And he finally tried Wordle, and his first score is the name of this episode, so it's now cemented in history. Have you tried Wordle yet? It's great fun. This week's news: NYT bought Wordle! https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/popular-puzzle-game-wordle-is-being-purchased-by-the-new-york-times/ Meta’s stock plunge (and Amazon’s gain) https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/jim-cramer-sa...
Feb 07, 2022•53 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Itamar had a last minute emergency, but the show must go on! So it's a Guy-Hillel-full episode. We jumped right into it, straight-up tech-talk. Oh and we should have probably named this episode something about the answer to life, the universe, and everything (but we didn't 🤷♂️). Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @itamarw and @guy Subscribe at www.bootstrappod.com & sign up for RN in Tech ! Have a question or feedback? Leave us a voicemail at w...
Jan 30, 2022•49 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast 41! This is the George H W Bush episode. You came to hear us talk about tech. That's exactly what you're gonna get. But the best nugget has to be how expensive Hillel's drone is. Seriously. WTF. How much is it? You gotta listen to find out :) And this week's news: Calcalist report of NSO's Pegasus in use by Israel police https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927704,00.html Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard in a nearly $69B all-cash deal. https://tec...
Jan 25, 2022•52 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE FORTY!!! We upped it up. A whole extra notch! Sometimes we play games as a segment of the show, but this time, the entire episode is a game! We played the "Hillel Secret Word Game", where Guy and Itamar had to compete to get Hillel to say certain tech buzzwords. What were the words? Who won? You'll have to listen to find out... Stripe Opens Operations in Israel! https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3926338,00.html Elizabeth Holmes found guilty https://www.b...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast First Bootstrap pod of 2022! And we were off to a great start! First of all, #freeItamar . Listen and you'll get it. Second, we found out that Hillel can eat a 1.2kg steak in one sitting. But most importantly, we chatted about tech news! Cafe Landver NFT's, Israel's First Digital Bank gets a new name before launch (and oh boy did we go on a tangent on this one), RIP Blackberry, and much more! No shout outs this week, because we did 2022 resolutions. They are epic. Enjoy! BYEEEEEE ...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast We did it! Year 1 of the Bootstrap Podcast in the bag. #nailedit So what did we talk about this week? Survey of US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube. Related: TikTok.com was the most popular domain globally between August and December 2021, after passing Google. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/22/tech-trust-survey/ CES! Still on, but everyone cancelling attendance https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22849223/ces-2022...
Dec 29, 2021•57 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast It was a hostful -Hillel this week, but we kept on going and managed to stay on the rails (sorry fans of going off-rails...) We're deep in winter now, but there's still a lot going on in the tech world! We talked about: Movie theaters are breaking records despite Omicron, thanks to Spiderman:No Way Home https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/17/22843051/movie-theaters-spider-man-no-way-home-records-amc-regal-cinemark Israeli cultivated meat co Future Meat raises $347m https://en.globes.co.il...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast WE MADE IT TO EPISODE 18 X 2! But barely... You see, we experienced yet another equipment failure. Including the backup system 🤦🤦🤦. And we lost the original Episode 36. So technically this is 36b. Yeah- this episode is late, and the news old... But we had to post it anyway! And have no fear, a fresh episode 37 is coming very soon :) And we mostly just talked about the original episode 36 that we lost, and tried to rekindle the magic... But what else did we talk about? Instagram's move ba...
Dec 19, 2021•37 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast We thought it would be a slower news week thanks to Thanksgiving, but it turned out to be a regular-length episode! We played a game, we talked about Apple's upcoming AR headset, Adele + Spotify, and how Tile (RIP) was acquired and murdered by AirTags. And Itamar aired some *slight* frustration, but you'll have to listen... Our shout-outs for the week: Hillel: iPhone text replacements https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207525 Itamar: 100 Ways to Look Smart in Meetings https://amzn.com/d...
Nov 30, 2021•49 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast ♫ Nothing last forever, even cold November brain... ♫ It's November, so that means all 3 of your favourite hosts have birthdays this month! But sometimes those birthdays are responsible for missed episode weeks. We apologize for that... But it was a great episode this week! Guy prepared a "guess the stock ticker" game (yup, and yet it was fun), and we talked a lot about the Metaverse (still), Hillel's rage at bandwagon jumping, and how Guy and Hillel use the internet complete...
Nov 22, 2021•59 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast ALL THE BOYS ARE BACK! And we took out a billboard on the Ayalon to celebrate! Just kidding, but that's what everyone else seems to be doing... What did we talk about? Elon's tax tweet of course. Our friends at Neuralight raised a $5.5M round . And we heard all about Hillel's trip to Gran Canaria! (tl;dr nothing to eat, super nice place.). And we discussed corporate theme songs. Yup, that's a thing now! And our shout-outs for the week: Guy: The Thrill of the Fight on Oculus Q...
Nov 09, 2021•59 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast WE'RE BAAAA-AAAAACK!! Yes, it has been a long two weeks off, but we're happy to be back! (Well, for those of us who are back :) Hillel needed to travel, but we don't hold that against him. We're excited to hear all about it next week! But in the meantime, holy s*&t there was a lot in the news. We talked about: Facebook rebranding to "Meta" Sequoia Capital blowing up the VC model Tesla being worth over $1T 🤯 Twitter poll! If you had $100K to invest in a tech sto...
Nov 01, 2021•58 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast HILLEL DOESN'T KNOW WHO NORM MACDONALD IS AND WE ARE NOT OK WITH THAT But we also talked about international corporate tax law treaties. And everyone moving to Texas. And Instagram video. And our shout-outs for the week: Hillel: LinkedIn creator status (psshhhhhhh) Guy: Photoshop Content Aware Fill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9jsJZ3lA0 Itamar: Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery (Netflix Special) https://www.netflix.com/title/80134780 Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us ...
Oct 12, 2021•56 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast EPISODE 30!! And Hillel's back! People are excited about that, and we played the voicemail to prove it. And our shout-outs for the week: Hillel: iPhone 13 Pro Max's macro photography Guy: No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram https://www.amazon.com/No-Filter-Inside-Story-Instagram/dp/1982126809 Itamar: OOO by mmhmm on iOS! https://www.mmhmm.app/blog/introducing-ooo-the-mmhmm-ios-app (Yeah, those are real things!) Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld ,...
Oct 06, 2021•49 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast This was a hostful but also a Fuld-less episode. Sorry Hillel, we miss you! Don't we look fabulous in the episode cover? That's right, in honour of Lightricks' newest round of funding, we facetuned the s**t out of ourselves! We also talked about: Apple's iPhone event! New iPhone 13's, new iPads, and more. How to pronounce Giphy (super relevant and important) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2NFF2rliV4 Lightricks announces $130 million Series D at $1.8 billion valuation h...
Sep 20, 2021•59 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Happy iPhone week!! Basically we're getting the new iPhones, we'd just love to know *why* we're getting them. So what did the boys talk about this week? It was a pretty busy news week actually... Yahoo swipes right on Jim Lanzone, hires him as new CEO! Facebook and Ray Ban launched new smart glasses. A ruling has been made in the epic Epic vs Apple trial. And some listener voicemail! Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @itamarw and @guy Subscribe...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Ah yes, the last podcast of the year. What did we talk about? (When we weren't experiencing mega tech breakdowns of course...) Callin is in, Clubhouse is out. Congrats Jifiti on their $22.5M round! Predictions for next year... And more! Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @itamarw and @guy Subscribe at www.bootstrappod.com & sign up for RN in Tech ! Have a question or feedback? Leave us a voicemail at www.bootstrappod.com !...
Sep 08, 2021•44 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Guy tricked us into talking about NFT's. We apologize for that. On the other hand, we had some Israeli tech news (like Entree Capital investing in UAE startups, and Reali raising $100M from our most-mentioned Israeli angel investor, Oren Zeev ), and then we talked about open app stores vs the way Apple does it now. WE ARE BACK FROM THE SUMMER! Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @itamarw and @guy Subscribe at www.bootstrappod.com & sign up for RN in Te...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Leor Stern is a modern day Herzl. Yup, we said it here first. But seriously folks, Leor was a fantastic guest! Leor is current the Head of OS at Fitbit/Google. He spent tons of time at Google on many different projects, including being the force behind opening Google's first office in Israel! He's a product leader and entrepreneur, and most of all, he's a total mensch. We really enjoyed our chat with him! We also covered some news and Hillel doesn't know the difference betwee...
Aug 11, 2021•2 hr 43 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Oh wow, this one is explosive like 30 minutes after eating gas station sushi. It's a hostful! And while we thought we were covering a routine story about Didi being forced to go private, it exploded into a debate about how wise it is to invest in a company that is in a country with an "interesting" relationship with the rule of law. (Now how's that for tap dancing around what I really wanted to write??) Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @i...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast It's another hostful! Coming hot off the heels of a great episode 22, the 3 legendary podcasters are back with a hostful episode. So sit back, chillax, and listen to Hillel's wild accusations he levels at Itamar. And they all discuss what's going on in tech news. Do I really need to spell out what we spoke about? You can probably guess by now. More IPO's from Israel tech companies, and something about Clubhouse. Is that what you guessed?? #nailedit. Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow ...
Jul 26, 2021•56 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was legen-wait for it-dary. @Amir Shevat (Head of Product, Developer Platform at Twitter) was our guest, and we had such a great talk! Amir is a well known staple of the Israeli tech ecosystem, despite currently residing in the US. That's how big of a deal he is. He's also a gentlemen and genius. And an author and investor. *And* he has worked at almost every large tech company- Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Amazon/Twich, and Slack. There's only Facebook and Apple left ...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Ok, so first things first, we had to address the biggest news rocking the world: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRGxTbNtCxa/ But after that, we got back down to business. Yes, yes, yes, another hostful. Relax, we'll have guests back soon! WE DID MAILBAG! That's right, we started reading emails and playing voicemails again! As a reminder, send us a voicemail anytime from our site: www.bootstrappod.com And then some news about who will be running Softbank's new Israel office, more huge...
Jul 12, 2021•56 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In the words of the great Paul Rudd, "No, Venti is twenty. Large is large." This might not have been a large episode, but it certainly was Venti. NEWS AMAZON GAMESHOW! (Guess who won?) As always, this episode was brought to you by RNinTECH.com (Guy, we'll tell you where to send the sponsor cheque...) Enjoy! BYEEEEEE -- Follow us on Twitter at @bootstrappod , @hilzfuld , @itamarw and @guy Subscribe at www.bootstrappod.com Have a question or feedback? Leave us a voicemail at www.boo...
Jul 06, 2021•43 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Some highlights from this week: Itamar, who likes his anonymity, got recognized "somewhere" Hillel "can I just say one thing" Fuld, has memory problems and loves both Windows Phone and Samsung phones (but guess which one he actually uses), and Guy has some big "news": he announced the new company he started! Sign up for it at https://RNinTECH.com/ Oh, and we talked about Windows 11 of all things. Let us know if you use Mac or Windows in this poll we're running ...
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