Episodes

EPISODE 30!! And Hillel's back! People are excited about that, and we played the voicemail to prove it. And our shout-outs for the week: Hillel: iPhone 13 Pro Max's macro photography Guy: No Filter: The Inside Story of Insta...

This was a hostful but also a Fuld-less episode. Sorry Hillel, we miss you! Don't we look fabulous in the episode cover? That's right, in honour of Lightricks' newest round of funding, we facetuned the s**t out of ourselves...

Happy iPhone week!! Basically we're getting the new iPhones, we'd just love to know *why* we're getting them. So what did the boys talk about this week? It was a pretty busy news week actually... Yahoo swipes right on Jim L...

Ah yes, the last podcast of the year. What did we talk about? (When we weren't experiencing mega tech breakdowns of course...) Callin is in, Clubhouse is out. Congrats Jifiti on their $22.5M round! Predictions for next year...

Guy tricked us into talking about NFT's. We apologize for that. On the other hand, we had some Israeli tech news (like Entree Capital investing in UAE startups, and Reali raising $100M from our most-mentioned Israeli angel ...

Leor Stern is a modern day Herzl. Yup, we said it here first. But seriously folks, Leor was a fantastic guest! Leor is current the Head of OS at Fitbit/Google. He spent tons of time at Google on many different projects, inc...

Oh wow, this one is explosive like 30 minutes after eating gas station sushi. It's a hostful! And while we thought we were covering a routine story about Didi being forced to go private, it exploded into a debate about how w...

It's another hostful! Coming hot off the heels of a great episode 22, the 3 legendary podcasters are back with a hostful episode. So sit back, chillax, and listen to Hillel's wild accusations he levels at Itamar. And they a...

This episode was legen-wait for it-dary. @Amir Shevat (Head of Product, Developer Platform at Twitter) was our guest, and we had such a great talk! Amir is a well known staple of the Israeli tech ecosystem, despite currently...

Ok, so first things first, we had to address the biggest news rocking the world: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRGxTbNtCxa/ But after that, we got back down to business. Yes, yes, yes, another hostful. Relax, we'll have guests...

In the words of the great Paul Rudd, "No, Venti is twenty. Large is large." This might not have been a large episode, but it certainly was Venti. NEWS AMAZON GAMESHOW! (Guess who won?) As always, this episode was brought to ...

Some highlights from this week: Itamar, who likes his anonymity, got recognized "somewhere" Hillel "can I just say one thing" Fuld, has memory problems and loves both Windows Phone and Samsung phones (but guess which one he ...

The boys are back in town. What town? Who cares, it's all remote anyway. Yes, another hostful this week. You know you love it! <3 Is Clubhouse on the way down? What about all the FTC/anti-trust stuff? Yeah, we talked about...

Ok, so first off, this week we saw the result of the biggest #bootstrapbump ever. That's right, our Episode 9 guest just became Prime Minister of Israel. Yeah, not sure we'll ever top that, but we'll try! Some other things w...

Hillel doesn't get AirTags. Tim Cook disagrees. But can I say something real quick? Congrats to our Episode 7 guest, Alex Bouaziz of Deel, on their $156M Series C raise! It's the #bootstrapbump ba-by!! Some other things we ...

All I can say is LOL. Hillel came in strong, Itamar and Guy cracked up. So many gems in this one! "Can I just say something?" -Hillel We also talked tech, duh. Bezos' last letter to Amazon shareholders, Coinbase IPO, and mo...

That's right. He's got the Twitter handle that Hillel thinks is the best in the world- @net! This week we welcomed Net Jacobsson, entrepreneur & adventure capitalist, ex-Facebooker, and most importantly: mountain biker. 100% ...

Today, Bootstrap becomes a man. Episode 13! We even learned about how fax machines work (thanks Guy!). And we debuted a new segment: The Mailbag. The Mailbag was great- send us more questions! hey@bootstrappod.com Also, sho...

🍷 Happy Passover! 🍷 Quick pod this week just to say hi, and Happy Passover to all who are celebrating! And in Israeli startup news, huge props to our boy Amir Shevat , and his team @ Reshuffle , on their acquisition by Twitte...

This week was a hostful! The bootstrap boys were chilling, and Hillel got a burger delivery. Did you know that Facebook is developing brain-controlled gesture technology? Well now you do. You're welcome. And Twitter blocked...

This week we welcomed as a guest our first venture capitalist, and we couldn't be more excited that it's Eze Vidra , one of the biggest mensches in VC. Eze is a managing partner at Remagine Ventures , and is a former partner...

This was a big week for the Bootstrap Podcast! In our first 10 episodes we managed to land a former defense minister of the State of Israel as a guest. Not bad, eh? We welcomed Naftali Bennett, entrepreneur-turned-politician...

Uh-oh. So yeah, about Episode 8. It was great. But then it wasn't so great anymore, when we realized we experienced catastrophic hardware failure to both primary and backup recordings. Fun times, right?? Ok, so on ...

This episode was 🔥🔥🔥 We welcomed Alex Bouaziz , Co-Founder and CEO @ Deel , the first payroll platform for remote teams that connects localized compliance and payments in one system. A payroll company? Yes, you want to hear A...