Uri Levine

Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)

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Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): You've co-founded 10 different companies. You've been on the board of 20. You've also built two unicorns including Waze. The biggest startup lesson you seem to have taken out of that is to- Uri Levine (00:00:09): Fall in love, fall in love, fall in love, fall in love with the problem, and then actually what you're trying to do is engage everyone else to fall in love with the same problem, to go into this journey, into this path and follow your leadership there....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:36): Let's actually talk about fundraising. Uri Levine...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Uri Levine (00:02:17): Thank you. Happy to be here. Lenny Rachitsky (00:02:18): Okay, so here's what I've gathered about your career, and let me...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Name the work
seem to have taken out of that is to fall in love with the problem. It's what your book is called. You have a T-shirt that you're wearing right now that you wear on every podcast that says that exactly....

Names a concrete strength, artifact, or contribution instead of offering generic praise.

Low-ego framing
Uri Levine (00:22:09): We started in Israel and Israel is a small place and we...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Uri Levine (01:22:05): Thank you. Lenny Rachitsky (01:22:06): Bye, everyone. Thank...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.