Eyal Waldman on What Went Wrong on October 7th, His Personal Loss, & Plan for Peace | Invested

On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Eyal Waldman, the chairman of Waldo Holdings and co-founder of Mellanox. This is Eyal's second time on the podcast - if you’d like to hear the first episode, please go to content.aleph.vc/podcast-epis...
Waldo Holdings is a family office that focuses on diversified investments in private and public companies, various funds, real estate and other financial platforms and vehicles.
Mr. Waldman has been the co-founder, president, CEO and board member of Mellanox Technologies since March 1999. Mellanox is a semiconductor company which went public on Nasdaq in 2007 and was acquired by NVIDIA on April 2020 for more than $7B.
Between March 1999 until June 2013, Mr. Waldman served as Mellanox’s chairman of the board.
From March 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Waldman served as Vice President of Engineering and was a co-founder of Galileo Technology, Ltd., a semiconductor company, which went public on Nasdaq in 1997 and was acquired by Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. in January 2001 for $2.7B.
From August 1989 to March 1993, Mr. Waldman held several design, management, and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products, and was awarded with the “IAA Intel achievement award” and the “Employee of the year” award.
Mr. Waldman serves on the board of directors of several private and public companies.
Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
In June 2016, Mr. Waldman was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Technion.
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KEY TOPICS
[00:00] Intro
[00:46] Israel Prize Controversy
[03:00] Mellanox & NVIDIA's AI Impact
[04:08] Mellanox’s Contribution to AI
[06:30] AI Education & the Role of the Government
[14:23] October 7th Reflections
[21:30] Personal Tragedy
[23:29] Relationships With Palestinian Employees
[24:35] Plan for Peace
[33:07] Resilience of the Israeli People
[39:33] Takeaways From Meeting Biden & Blinken
[44:21] Remembering Danielle Waldman and Noam Shay
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Executive Producer: Erica Marom
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[@samianabtawi866]

thnx Michael for this podcast, bringing a Top-Notch and a beautiful mind like Eyal to be heard. Good job.

[@liliyapopik6801]

I watched the first Aleph interview with Eyal Waldman just weeks before 7/10. My main takeaway thought was "this guy should run for Prime Minister." In the last couple of months this thought turned certainty. It's time to bring in leaders with vision, with respect, with the balanced strength, with an outstanding ability to unite and hence heal the nation. And I hear Eyal's name in this context more and more. I don't know if he considers it but he definitely has my vote.

[@zahavarafalowicz3368]

What an impressive person..hopefully will take a gretaer role in Israeli leadership/

[@goshila]

Really sorry fot Eyal's lost🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thanks for great interview

[@priyachen]

Rest in peace ❤

[@tonyp6680]

Great interview, great people. There is some lack of clarity about the criticism of the government that is has no clear “the day after” strategy but on the other hand there are repeated calls that Hamas has to be defeated. The government is probably right insisting on proceeding with the military operation, regardless if there is a consensus on “the day after” which will involve foreign entities and may take a very long time.

[@4nxy]

You can't force a rabbi to go to war, that is not spiritual