Michael Matias

20MinuteLeaders

20MinuteLeaders features the world's prominent leaders for short conversations about their journeys and insights.

Author

Michael Matias

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Business

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Latest episode

Jan 1, 2026

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Episodes

Ep230: Valentin Perez | Co-Founder of Monthly 03.01.2021

Valentin Perez is the co-founder of Monthly, a venture-backed, fast-growing company revolutionizing online education. They've partnered with some of the biggest creators, artists, and experts to create one-month online learning experiences. Valentin grew up in Cancun, Mexico, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Valentin loves to learn and create.

Ep212: Nadia Tatlow | CEO of Shift 03.01.2021

Nadia Tatlow is the CEO of Shift (tryshift.com). A passionate entrepreneur, marketer, and startup enthusiast, Nadia has taken the company from startup to scaleup with 40X ARR growth between 2018 and 2020. Nadia and her team are on a mission to make the world a more productive place by bringing focus and impact to each work day. Outside of work, Nadia enjoys exploring her home on the beautiful West...

Ep217: Yael Wissner-Levy | VP Communications at Lemonade 03.01.2021

Yael Wissner-Levy is the Vice President, Communications at Lemonade ($LMND) a digital insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics and driven by social good. Previously, Yael was a speechwriter and communications consultant for political and business leaders, having written for heads of state, CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations, and non-governmental organizat...

Ep222: Lilia Shirman | CEO of The Shirman Group 03.01.2021

Lilia is a CEO, Author, Investor, and Board Advisor who drives revenue and shareholder value growth for B2B tech companies. As CEO of The Shirman Group, she has shaped Go-to-Market strategies that generated tens of millions in revenue for VMware, EMC, Amazon, Oracle, and others. She was a turnaround CMO at MariaDB, and led solutions marketing and strategic alliances at BEA. Her current focus is on...

Ep233: Minette Norman | Vice President, Engineering Practice, Autodesk 03.01.2021

Minette brings decades of leadership experience in the software industry to her consulting business, which is focused on developing transformational leaders who create inclusive working environments. She was recently Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk, where she transformed how Autodesk developed software. Responsible for influencing more than 3,500 engineers around the globe, she...

Ep220: Yali Saar | Co-Founder and CEO of Tailor Brands 03.01.2021

Yali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tailor Brands, an AI driven branding platform that helps 21M businesses launch and run their businesses with easy-to-use branding and design tools. Before starting Tailor Brands, Yali founded and was the chief creative officer for Raising the Bar, a worldwide educational initiative helping people to acquire education in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Australi...

Ep236: Yair Livne | Former VP Product of Quora 03.01.2021

Yair is the former VP Product at Quora where he led the product org for four years, overseeing internationalizing the product into ~30 languages, the launch of Quora Spaces, and the launch of Quora's ads platform. Before heading product management, Yair co-founded and led the company's data science team. Prior to his run at Quora, Yair attained a Ph. D. from Stanford GSB where he was doi...

Ep231: Jennifer Gross | CEO, American Friends of Tel Aviv University 03.01.2021

Jennifer is the CEO of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. She was previously Vice President of UJA-Federation of New York, overseeing its Affinity Campaign, which raised over $78 million annually. .Before joining UJA professionally in 2014, she was a principal and managing director at Archview Investment Group, an event-driven credit opportunity hedge fund seeded by Blackstone. She is a chai...

Ep213: Noa Ohayon Bab | Future of Work Expert and Community Builder 03.01.2021

Noa is a Brand Marketing Specialist, an expert in the Future Of Work, and a Community Builder. Currently, she is the Head of the Israeli Delegation Washington DC, and until recently she was Head of Employer Brand & Internal Communication at eBay.  Previously she co-founded a leading Job Search platform in Israel (over 90K followers and 250K monthly reach). Noa is a popular speaker at conferenc...

Ep225: Gil Tayar | Senior Architect at Applitools 03.01.2021

From the olden days of DOS, Gil was, is, and always will be a software dev. He has co-founded WebCollage and designed cloudy projects at Wix. His current passion is figuring out how to test software as the Senior Architect at Applitools.

Ep235: Ilana Golan | Founder and CEO, CareerLeap 03.01.2021

Ilana Golan is a well-known growth strategist in Silicon Valley helping individuals & businesses grow. Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017, and CEO World Award 2020. Entrepreneur turned tech investor, Forbes Contributor & Public Speaker. Ilana is the inventor of CareerLeap, the program, and network that has been transforming co...

Ep216: Ramesh Panuganty | Founder and CEO of Macheye 03.01.2021

As a creative technology pioneer (18 patents, several publications) and an entrepreneur, Ramesh launched & exited four start-ups: three were acquired, the latest one gives a "play" button for enterprise data. He created the market categories of “cloud management platforms”, “conversational analytics” and now looking to grow “click-less intelligence”. His focus has always been to deve...

Ep234: Stephen Blum | Chief Technology Officer of PubNub 03.01.2021

Stephen is the CTO of PubNub and invests in AI and API companies. PubNub provides a real-time communication infrastructure for telemedicine apps, online learning, on-demand delivery, shared Peloton exercise experiences, and more. They built a replicated Multi POP Realtime Data Stream Network written in C for reliability and speed. Combining artificial intelligence and petabytes of data marks an ad...

Ep227: Amy Wyron Robinson | Chief Operating Officer of Nemodata 03.01.2021

Amy Wyron Robinson is COO of Nemodata, where she is on a mission to help fleets prevent breakdowns before they happen. She has spent the last 10+ years launching, scaling, and learning from new mobility ventures including @Waze (Acq. by GOOGL), @Moovit (Acq. by INTEL), and most recently @Gett, where she was Global VP of B2B ($100M+ ARR). Previously at Gett, she led Gett Delivery, a "startup w...

Ep221: Yoav Vilner | Co-Founder and CEO of Walnut 03.01.2021

Yoav is the Co-founder and CEO of Walnut, a promising startup in the sales space backed by leading SF investors. Previously he was a founding member of an anti-bullying startup, and was the CEO of Israel's first startup marketing company. Yoav was named "Tech Marketer to Watch" by Forbes in 2017, and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and...

Ep219: Donna Griffit | Corporate Storyteller 03.01.2021

Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit, and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches, and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that capt...

Ep228: Gal Ringel | Co-Founder and CEO of Mine 03.01.2021

Mine is a personal data assistant, enabling digital users to discover and manage their personal data online. Gal Ringel is an accomplished leader with a rare fusion of technology (cybersecurity, six years in the 8200 Elite Intelligence Corps, Captain rank), Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital experience (4.5 years, 20+ investments with Nielsen and Verizon Ventures), strategic thinking, and unique bu...

Ep218: Thomas Schindler | Founder and CEO of delodi 03.01.2021

A childhood dominated by dinner table conversations around ion-channels, power-microscopy, nuclear war and ecosystems-collapse left its marks. Instead of becoming a rockstar, which had been the original plan, Thomas became an entrepreneur driven by applying the power of science and technology towards making the planet a good place. This led to a series of for-profit and non-profit organisations, i...

Ep214: Nurit Reder | Future of Work Expert and Community Builder 03.01.2021

Nurit has more than 20 years of experience in leading roles  in Finance and Operations at high tech companies. She served as VP of Operations at Wix.com for 5 years and also as a CFO as several startups. Today she is the co-founder of DigitalMarking, a startup in the online communities industry.

Ep208: Jill Wesley | Founder of Science + Soul of Speaking 03.01.2021

Jill Wesley helps world-class leaders stand out in their industry as the “go-to speakers” for virtual and in-person global events. Her mission is to help people find common ground and work together to find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. Jill has worked as an executive coach, professional speaker and event producer for over 25 years and has led professional development programs in com...

Ep211: Maya Avni | Stanford Business School Candidate 03.01.2021

Maya's passion for technology started during her army service in 8200. After completing her engineering degree at Tel Aviv University, she joined Google and managed a $100M eCommerce client portfolio targeting the US market. Today Maya is pursuing her MBA at Stanford and is a student investor at the Impact Fund. During the past 6 months, she worked as a Product Manager at Brex and co-led the...

Ep210: Lexi Butler | Senior Program Manager, Data & Privacy at Twitter 03.01.2021

Lexi is considered one of Silicon Valley’s candid and most prominent voices. Her thought-provoking advice and opinions on how to create a more equitable work environment stem from her own experiences working in companies such as Airbnb, Facebook, and most recently Twitter. In 2017, she founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, a community that supports Black women in tech companies and related pr...

Ep203: Eli Barak | Co-Founder and CEO of Yarok Serial Entrepreneur 03.01.2021

Eli is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in establishing startups, companies, and community social activities. He is the co-director of Green, an innovative community center in the Hefer Valley for both entrepreneurs and youth. Additionally, he is the Chairman of the board of directors of Ruppin College of Technology as well as two startups (Scentcom and Crumbiz). Eli is passi...

Ep201: Emna Ghariani | Co-Founder and CEO of Veamly 03.01.2021

Emna Ghariani co-founder & CEO of Veamly, a developer unified workspace for software engineers. As a digital wellbeing activist and productivity guru, She is on a mission to fix our relationship with work and to advocate for a brave new world where wellbeing and work/life balance are celebrated to live a full-filling life. she also brings a hybrid model of remote work that puts people and thei...

Ep206: Roy Nicolet | Israeli Entrepreneur, Stanford Business School 03.01.2021

Roy is an Israeli entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO of a stealth-mode AI startup (soon to be revealed). Previously he was founder and CEO of Openhand, an AI-powered consumer lending startup, was a computer engineer at Intel, served as an Intelligence Officer in the Israel Defense Forces. Roy holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BSc. EE from the Technion.

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