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The Spiro Circle

Join me as I discuss issues relating to Israel, tech, media, and news. Sometimes with a guest, sometimes solo. www.thespirocircle.com

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37:45

The AI Chaos Was Just the Beginning - #0068, Tom...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/04/19

The last two years in AI have been disorienting.Every week brought a new model, a new product launch announced on X, and a new reason to reconsider assumptions that felt settled only months before. For startups trying to keep up, the experience has been less like riding a wave and more like trying to read a map while the terrain keeps shifting beneath you.It was something I discussed on another episode of The Spiro Circle only a few weeks ago. But this time, according to Tom Findling, Co-founder and

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33:56

Finance's $200 Trillion AI Problem - #0067, Lior Yogev

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/04/16

Lior Yogev says he’s barely been home in three months.The FundGuard CEO and co-founder has spent the better part of the year in client meetings, and the conversation at every stop has been a variation of the same thing. “Everybody is now thinking, how do we remodel how we’ve worked over the last 30 years?”The forcing function is agentic AI and the shift toward autonomous systems capable of taking action across complex workflows without human instruction at each step. In asset management, the

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48:50

“There Are Good Guys And Bad Guys”: When Founders...

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2026/04/12

When the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, the opening moves were not B-2 bombers or Tomahawk missiles. Before the first strike aircraft crossed into Iranian airspace, Iran’s radars had already been blinded, its command-and-control links severed, its communications networks dismantled.Within this context, one Israeli startup has spent four years building the communications infrastructure that conflicts like this one keep exposing as absent. Commcrete, which raised $29 million in seed and

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40:34

Trust is the Internet’s Most Important Infrastructure...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/04/09

We were told never to get into a stranger’s car. Yet millions of us do it every day. The rules most people grew up with (“don’t talk to strangers online”, “never open the door to someone you don’t know”) have been dismantled by the platforms we now use without thinking. Sharing economy platforms like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon Marketplace, and DoorDash run entirely on the assumption that strangers can be trusted at scale. “We live in a generation that buys everything online,” said Yair Tal, CEO of

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44:16

Europe’s Path to Tech Independence Runs Through...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/04/05

I’ve written extensively about Europe and its tech sector for many years. For some, it seems slow, stagnant, and tied up in regulatory bureaucracy. For others, it is a champion in responsible data protection and privacy laws that spread across the world. Either way, the continent should not be disregarded when we discuss tech ecosystems and innovation coming from startups and large corporations. The bloc has undergone a bit of scrutiny since Mario Draghi delivered his report on European

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41:52

Israel's Battlefield Is Now a Startup Factory -...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/04/02

The joint US-Israeli operation against Iran — the most significant military collaboration between the two countries in modern history — validated a thesis that Protego Ventures had been building since October 7, 2023. The fund, one of the first in Israel to explicitly target defensetech, had already placed bets on the idea that the US-Israel alliance was evolving from a diplomatic relationship into something more structural. Founders Lital Leshem and Lee Moser imagined a technology pipeline backed

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40:10

Claude Updates Are Killing Startups. How Should...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/29

Every time Anthropic drops a product update on X, a startup somewhere dies.That’s the sentiment across the startup world right now. Claude can do new things each week that were once considered core products of companies, not just simple feature additions. Each week, founders watch their whole business become a footnote, and the post-mortems begin. I recently spoke to Eyal Fisher, co-founder and CPO of Sweet Security, and former head of the cyber operations center in IDF Unit 8200, about this. Even

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37:25

The Invisible Workforce Behind the World’s Biggest...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/26

When fans walk into Wembley Stadium or Wimbledon, they see the show - but what they don’t see is everything underneath it: An ‘invisible’ workforce working hard in unison, powering the global experience economy to make sure the event is running seamlessly.“In order to make an experience… it can be thousands of workers,” Omri Dekalo explained.The hidden infrastructure behind modern events is a fragmented labor force made up of temporary workers, contractors, and staffing agencies. It spans industries

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49:30

He Hacked Instagram. Now, He's Building the Future of...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/22

When Gal Elbaz decided to hack Instagram, he didn’t need much convincing.“We wanted to hack Instagram because they’re Instagram, right? We don’t need a lot of motivation,” the co-founder and CTO of Oligo Security told me in a recent interview. What followed was a lesson in how modern cybersecurity actually works - not through confrontations with shadowy figures, but through the quiet exploitation of a single overlooked library buried deep inside one of the world’s most downloaded applications.I’ve

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41:46

AI Needs Its Spotify Moment - #0059, Yair Adato

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/18

When Bria AI CEO Yair Adato talks about AI, he sounds more like an economist watching a familiar crisis unfold in slow motion, as opposed to the typical startup founder I have spoken to over the years.“People think about this revolution as a technology revolution,” he said. “It has nothing to do with technology. It’s all about the economy and society. The technology is just an enabler.”Bria AI is an Israeli company building licensed generative image infrastructure for enterprise clients. It ensures

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51:15

The Missing Metric In The AI Boom - #0058, Liad Elidan

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/15

Everyone is talking about AI. And Generative AI adoption, especially, has practically become a corporate mandate - everywhere you look, it is being deployed.Across industries, executives are urging teams to integrate AI into their workflows. Engineers want access to AI coding assistants, and consumers are constantly being introduced to new AI products whether they want them or not. But amid the rush to deploy new tools, many organizations are overlooking a simple question. Is it doing its job and

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39:13

Iran Mined the Strait of Hormuz. Now AI Has to...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/11

As tensions rise between Iran and Israel, one narrow stretch of water is once again holding the global economy hostage: the Strait of Hormuz.Nearly a third of the world’s seaborne oil passes through the corridor each day. This week alone, Iran deployed sea mines in the channel - and GPS spoofing, which is the manipulation of satellite navigation signals, continues to disrupt ships moving through the region.For Yarden Gross, co-founder and CEO of maritime technology company Orca AI, this is exactly

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30:28

Cybersecurity's Hidden Human Problem - #0056, Guy...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/08

Those who follow my show know that I speak to many cybersecurity founders. While the explosion of AI has certainly made the sector a fascinating place for technical discussions, there are also many areas where we can explore the human side of cybersecurity.Take security operations centers (SOCs), for example. These SOCs operate within large organizations that rely on dozens of monitoring tools to detect suspicious activity across networks, devices, and identity systems. Each system generates alerts

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51:26

Why the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Is Rising During War...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/05

The airports may be closed, but that isn’t stopping the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) from soaring. As Israel navigates renewed conflict with Iran, the country’s stock exchange did something surprising. Instead of tanking, it did the opposite. The TA-125 Index climbed to record highs of around 4,200 points, which represents a 66% increase compared to this time last year. At the same time, the Israeli shekel strengthened against the U.S. dollar. That isn’t to say the conflict hasn’t caused

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37:58

The Jewish Case for Bitcoin - #0054, Josh Varon

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/03

“Imagine you were a family in Eastern Europe during World War Two or during the Holocaust, and you had tremendous wealth, and you had houses, or you had gold in the bank, or money in the bank,” said Josh Varon. “All of a sudden, all you could leave with was a backpack, a coat, and a hat on your head.”This week, I spoke to Varon, who started BHforBitcoin, an online course where users can learn to understand Bitcoin, money, and global change. He does so through a specific lens: through the context of

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39:09

"Keep It Platonic": Why Founders Shouldn’t Date Their...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/03/01

When Argon Security was acquired by Aqua Security in 2021, Eylam Milner experienced a different kind of startup shock. Not the chaos of building a company, but the sudden absence of it.For years, he had operated on his own time. As the co-founder, decisions were immediate, and progress was measured in days, not quarters. But once moving into part of a larger company, movement required consensus.“We had to do some mind-shifting,” he told me. “For example, large companies don’t move like startup

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38:17

How Military Thinking Is Reshaping AI Startups -...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/02/24

AI is forcing companies into environments where they are no longer competing against rivals, but with adversaries. In cybersecurity, where attackers adapt in real time, the competitive advantage for defenders is no longer just about efficiency, but in how companies learning and revise their assumptions. Instead of optimizing for speed alone, some of the biggest AI security companies are being built around principles closer to IDF intelligence operations that include constant simulation, adversarial

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42:58

It's Time to Stop Asking if AI Will Replace Creators...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/02/22

I spend a lot of my time talking to investors and entrepreneurs about AI. But the adoption of this tech goes way beyond Silicon Valley or Startup Nation. A few weeks ago, I spoke with Victor Varnado, an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer, and tech creator. He has worked with local improv troupes and has also appeared in Hollywood movies such as "The Adventures of Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy.So Victor is a creative - there’s no doubt about that - but he also stretches his

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51:59

History, One Social Media Post at a Time - #0050,...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/02/18

Obviously, it’s no surprise to people that I’m a huge fan of history. Working in news for years, I’ve always appreciated that the stories breaking each day (and the people reporting them) are contributing to what will eventually become history.“News is just history in real time”, right?I’ve long been fascinated by how social media, AI, and mass communication have reshaped the way we experience and understand those moments.Last week, I spoke to Manny Marotta. He’s the creator and curator of the Live

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46:53

"Democracy is in Limbo": Can Voting Be Trusted Again?...

The Spiro Circle ·

2026/02/15

For the past decade, election debates in the United States and some European countries have revolved around access, accountability, and security.The discussion has become deeply politicized, especially since the 2000 American election. One side pushes expanded mail-in and remote voting, whereas others push for voter-identification laws and stricter eligibility checks. In the USA, moves are being made to introduce the SAVE America Act, which would ensure identification for voting. But the voter-ID

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