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  I was born in Israel to a very average Israeli family. When I was six, my father took up the role of engineer in South Africa, and I grew up in South Africa. I did my schooling in South Africa, studied computer, software, and electrical engineering at the University of Natal. To put myself through university, I started a company writing software for people. I called it Great Programming Solutions (GPS). By the time I finished university, we had 50 or 60 employees. Two years later, we mergered into an IPO in South Africa and London. From not knowing any better, we had fairly good success. I eventually left the business and had another two startups I wanted to try out. What I realized was that I needed to leave South Africa if I wanted to make it big; like actors go to Hollywood to try to make it big, entrepreneurs who want to make it big go to the U.S. I landed in the U.S., and I was fortunate enough over the next six years to be involved in a number of startups, which were sold e

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