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Ziv Ofek and the distance between an idea and its moment
After dbMotion’s $235 million sale, Ziv Ofek helped build a home for other founders in Beersheba. Then the MDClone co-founder started crossing the same distance again: from a promising idea to something people could use.
Arthur Weagel Took the Pizza Meeting
Before Podium had a sign on the building, it had two founders, a living-room whiteboard, pizza, and a prototype that needed rebuilding. Arthur Weagel chose the energy in the room - then became the engineer who helped make the idea durable.
Zhensen Huang Spent a Decade in the Quiet Part of Building
Before the awards, the contracts and the AI workshops, Precise Software Solutions was a two-person company with a long runway and no obvious breakthrough. Huang's useful lesson is what happened during the wait.
Ethan Choi
Ethan Choi is a Partner at Khosla Ventures leading the firm's Growth Fund, where he writes checks between $15M and $70M into cloud infrastructure, SaaS, enterprise, and consumer internet companies from Seed through Series C. Before joining Khosla in 2024, he was a Partner at Accel, where he backed Klaviyo (now NYSE: KVYO), 1Password, and Pismo (acquired by Visa). His investing philosophy pivoted from metrics-first to founder-first — he now spends 90% of his diligence energy on the people rather than the numbers. A former LDS missionary who spent two years in South Korea, Choi is an unusually direct voice on AI's disruption of white-collar work and the coming robotics inflection point.