Speaking to a chareidi audience of budding entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, Waze founder Noam Bardin drew a road map for success in high tech
STRONGER Noam Bardin’s best advice: “Train at a place where they pay you to make mistakes so that you can be stronger when you go out on your own” (Photos: Lior Mizrachi)
I srael Rosenberg the CEO and co-founder of BotBuy met a legend in the tech business last week. “It was important to come to hear him” he said.
The “him” is Noam Bardin the CEO of Waze the tech company that revolutionized driving with its navigation app. Bought by Google in 2013 for approximately $1 billion Waze counts 65 million users worldwide.
Bardin appearing before a chareidi crowd at the Jerusalem headquarters of Cisco in Har Chotzvim wore a T-shirt and casual pants in front of the audience dressed in black and white. He told the story of Waze and how it evolved from a simple experiment in crowdsource social navigation into a worldwide leader in a new field. To make his point when Bardin asked how many in the crowd use Waze nearly everyone raised their hands.
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