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Ra’anan Cohen has lived the full founder arc: he built one company to an IPO (MobileMax), built another into a unicorn (Bringg), then wrote a brutally honest memoir that became a bestselling business book in Israel—and is now being adapted into a TV series.
In this episode, Ra’anan and Haggai go into the decisions that define a founder’s life: the moment Ra’anan turned down a $10M offer to take money off the table (and what it taught him about risk, ego, and timing), the “Black Swan” events you can’t predict (like the iPhone) that can erase entire business models overnight, and the messy reality of boards, investors, and secondaries—when to take chips off the table, and when to stay hungry.
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• How to think about “life-changing money” vs. “founder pride”
• Why Black Swans hit founders harder than markets—and how to build resilience anyway
• The real tradeoffs of secondaries, dilution, and investor dynamics
• What Ra’anan wishes he knew from the beginning
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