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If AI makes your product easier to build, what stops someone else from building it too?
Easier to start does not mean easier to win.
Maya Pizov has helped build companies as an operator and backed them as an investor. Her experience includes eBay, enSilo, and seven years at Amiti Ventures. She also backed Flow Security, later acquired by CrowdStrike.
In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi and Maya explore what makes a startup hard to copy, and how to recognize the team capable of building it.
Maya’s guiding principle is simple: the right team for the mission. The harder part is recognizing that team before its success makes the choice look obvious.
We explore:
• What still counts as a technological advantage as AI changes how software gets built, and why deep tech, quantum computing, and physical AI are drawing Maya’s attention.
• How she evaluates whether founders are suited to the particular problem they want to solve, beyond impressive credentials.
• Why a founder’s response to difficult feedback can reveal more than a polished pitch.
For anyone building, backing, or joining a startup, these questions reach beyond the next funding round. They ask whether the company has an advantage that can last, and whether its people can deliver on it.
Listen to the full conversation to hear how Maya connects those judgments: what makes the technology worth backing, and what makes the team right for the mission.
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