Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Uri Levine

ISBN 10: 1786788063 / ISBN 13: 9781786788061

Published by Watkins Media Limited, GB, 2023

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Unicorns - companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion - are rare. Uri Levine has built two. And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it.As the cofounder of Waze - the world's leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion - Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies. Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and his second unicorn, Moovit, revealing the formula that drove those companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. He offers tips on:Raising fundingFiring and hiringUnderstanding your usersMaking up-scale decisionsGoing globalDeciding when to sellFall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution offers mentorship in a book from one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, and empowers you to build a successful business by identifying your consumers' biggest problems and disrupting the inefficient markets that currently serve them.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
• Publisher: Watkins Media Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786788063
• ISBN 13: 9781786788061
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The founder of Waze and Moovit, and one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, Uri Levine, gives you the ultimate practical guide to starting and running a business.

Unicorns – companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion – are rare. Uri Levine has built two. And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it.

As the cofounder of Waze – the world's leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion – Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies. Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and his second unicorn, Moovit, revealing the formula that drove those companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. He offers tips on:
- Firing and hiring
- Raising funding
- Understanding your users
- Making up-scale decisions
- Going global
- Deciding when to sell

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution offers mentorship in a book from one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, and empowers you to build a successful business by identifying your consumers' biggest problems and disrupting the inefficient markets that currently serve them.

About the Author

Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor. He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which was acquired by Google for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, which was acquired by Intel for $1 Billion in 2020. Levine has built more than a dozen startups, and has seen everything ranging from failure, middle success, to big success. He is also a world-class speaker on entrepreneurship and disruption. Find out more: www.urilevine.com