Emi Gal

A couple of weeks ago I met one of the smartest guy you probably never heard of. Or, you have, if you’ve ever watched the Startup.com movie or if you know anything about the dot com bubble. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman founded one of the hottest startups of the dot com bubble, govworks.com. He raised $50 [...]

Those of you who know me more than just as the guy behind Brainient probaby know that the most important thing I want to achieve in life is reinventing education. And it makes me so happy when I discover that I’m not the only guy who sees that education today has some big, big issues. [...]

I open my inbox this morning and find an email called “North Pole 2010″, informing me that a friend of mine has decided to go to the North Pole. Below you can find part of the email he sent. Good luck, Ed! “As some of you will already know, alongside developing Trigga and becoming a [...]

Margaret Thatcher once said: I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job. The problem is though that nowadays most people just start arguments, refuse agreeing with you and at the same time avoid debating. They just sit there without providing any [...]

Ever since I saw Gary Vaynerchuk‘s keynote at SXSW yesterday morning, something he said really stuck into my head: “In the past couple of years, I’ve asked about a hundred 80-90 years old what they would do different in life if they’d have a chance to do it again. Most of them said they’d spend [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images together with Mark Getty, back in 1993. Getty Images is the leading stock photo business in the world. Last week, thanks to Saul Klein and Seedcamp, I had the priviledge to listen to him for two hours, speaking about how he built a [...]

I’m not sure I want to live 100 years, but I sure want to be healthy in my sixties. I know, I’m crazy to be thinking about that when I’m still in my early twenties, but hey – everyone has obsessions, and this is one of mine. I’ve been a vegetarian for almost a year [...]

People usually tend to turn the recruiting process into an exhaustive game where at the end you know everything about the potential employee and his mother. And I know that because I’ve done it hundreds if not thousands of times in the past. But after close to 5 years of entrepreneurship, I’ve learned that you [...]

Seriously. I’m not kidding. While most of us are struggling with full-time boring jobs that we don’t like, some people are changing the world. Really changing it. Saving millions of lives and making their mark. Challenging the status quo and approaching problems differently. Today I discovered a TED presentation by Michael Pritchard, a british nano-tech [...]

1. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. 2. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the [...]