Israel Krush

So definitely opportunism, but also optimism, right?

So believing in good, believing in the fact that you can make a better future for yourself, for your community, for the family.

for the industry that you're serving.

And maybe I'll just add that optimism is great and opportunism is great, but sometimes you need to be very strategic about those two things.

So I like to say strategically opportunistic.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm Israel.

I'm originally from Israel, as you can guess by my thick Israeli accent and my name.

I'm now co-founder and CEO of Hyrule.

My background is in computer science and statistics.

I like to say machine learning before it was called machine learning.

So I spent my entire career or many years of my career in the Israeli tech ecosystem.

which in Israel, by the way, like a lot of it starts in the army.

It depends on where you went to.

So I went to the intelligence unit, like an equivalent to the NSA, if you'd want.

So definitely took a lot of life lessons over there.

But then was a software engineer at Intel, realized that corporate life isn't really for me, and then moved to a bunch of startups from SADA security all the way to EdTech.

doing software engineering, product management, and then some leadership positions.

I moved to the States in 2017 to get my MBA.

I got it from Cornell University, specifically Cornell Tech, which is a relatively new campus in New York City.