High-Tech Chutzpah
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Israel is known as a startup culture, but why? And more than that, how do Israelis see themselves in this story? Is the startup story a new trend, or rather the latest iteration of underlying cultural character? Carrie and Aliza speak with Guy Stiebel, who has spent his career selling Israeli startups to Americans, to understand just what is that secret sauce in Israeli character that's made Israel synonymous with startup culture.
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