Building Waze, Backing Moovit & Teaching the Next Generation of Founders | Uri Levine

<p>Uri Levine is the co-founder of Waze, serial entrepreneur, investor, author, and founder of the Uri Levine Startup Academy.</p><p>Uri co-founded Waze in 2007 around a problem nearly everyone could understand: traffic. The navigation platform grew into a global phenomenon before Google acquired Waze for $1.1 billion in 2013.</p><p>He was also the first board member and an investor in Moovit, the public transportation platform that was acquired by Intel for approximately $1 billion in 2020.</p><p>But Uri didn&#39;t stop after Waze. He has spent the years since building, backing, and advising startups while developing a philosophy centered around one principle: “Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.”</p><p>Now, he&#39;s taking decades of lessons from building companies and launching the Uri Levine Startup Academy, designed to teach entrepreneurs the practical journey from identifying a problem and finding product-market fit to fundraising, scaling, and eventually exiting.</p><p>In this episode of LegendsNLeaders, Uri takes us inside the journey of building Waze, the billion-dollar Google acquisition, the mistakes founders make, what separates great entrepreneurs, and why he believes solving the right problem matters more than falling in love with an idea.</p><p>We also discuss his approach to investing, building multiple startups, lessons from both successes and failures, and why he&#39;s now focused on passing what he&#39;s learned to the next generation of entrepreneurs.</p><p>From Waze and Moovit to the Uri Levine Startup Academy, this is a conversation about building billion-dollar companies—and what Uri has learned about entrepreneurship along the way.</p><p>#UriLevine #Waze #Moovit #Entrepreneurship #Startups #Google #Founders #VentureCapital #LegendsNLeaders</p>