Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a 2x 'unicorn' builder (Duocorn), and the author of "Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepre-neurs". He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, 'Waze of public transportation', which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.
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Levine's vision in building startups is to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services, focusing on solving "BIG problems" and saving consumers time and money while empowering them and changing the world for the better. Among Uri's startups are Pontera (formerly FeeX), FairFly, and Refundit, and he is always working on the next one. Â Uri has been in the high-tech business for the last 30 years, half of them in the startup scene, and has seen everything ranging from failure to moderate success and big success.
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He is also a world-class speaker on entrepreneurship, disruption, evolution vs. revolutions of markets, mobility, and startups. Motivated to encourage the next generation of thinkers and innovators, he also leads an academic workshop entitled "How to Build a Startup", aimed at undergraduate and graduate-level business students.
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Levine is a BA graduate of Tel-Aviv University. Before attending University, he served in the Israeli army at special intelligence unit 8200. In his public activity, he serves on the board of trustees of Tel-Aviv University. He also mentors young entrepreneurs at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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To learn more about Uri, visit www.urilevine.com.