So, Daniel, what is the best way for the folks that are listening to reach out and say “Hi”? Can we chat?” We actually go quite a lot of investment from users, which was really fine. Daniel Ramot: You know, it was exciting and exhausting all at the same time, I would say. I think we wasted a lot of time, frankly, writing a very detailed business plan and business model, collecting a lot of data. Launching a two-sided marketplace, as you described, there’s this chicken and the egg. We could just go and do it. Oren was trying to ride in one of these, and it wasn’t going very well, and it occurred to him that if he had an app that he could book a seat on one of these vehicles and track it as it was approaching and know when it was coming, that would be a much more efficient way to utilize this system. I thought I would give it a shot and try to spend a few years learning about that. Oren was trying to ride in one of these, and it wasn’t going very well, and it occurred to him that if he had an app that he could book a seat on one of these vehicles and track it as it was approaching and know when it was coming, that would be a much more efficient way to utilize this system. We tried to raise a little money. Daniel Ramot: I think that’s a great question. What were you doing there? Alejandro: Got it. The next day, all these drivers show up, and no one is booking rides, and you’re super stressed about having too many drivers who will not come back. We hit an inflection point, and we finished the year with nearly 50 different partners. We were following quite a number of other players, but when it came to shared rides, I think we had this first-mover advantage that was very important in fundraising and in building the brand. I think one of the things of having those jobs that were pretty good—we had some risk aversion to simply jumping without any indication from the fundraising market, from the financing market whether we could raise money for this. If you have engineering skills, it’s great to find a business person or vice versa. I’ve been doing marketplaces for about ten years now. Along the route, you just flag them down. So, this experience Oren had, I think he was waiting for the van. The main thing I worked on there was building this very interesting supercomputer to try to run these simulations real quickly. Thank you, so much. View Daniel Ramot’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. This is my first startup. SUBSCRIBE. I was pretty happy at D. E. Shaw Research. Would that work?” We basically got the okay to do that within the statute. So, how did you guys get this kind of like chicken and the egg or supply-demand type of thing in motion? I think a lot of the philosophy around our hiring and recruiting has come from there. We hired a couple of friends to start to build some of the original, the initial algorithms. That was, I think, to me the initial discovery, the obvious one, that I needed to find a question that I was really excited about. Why Now Is The Time To Send Investors Your Pitch Deck, Difference between corporate VCs and traditional VCs, Making the competitors‘ weakness your strengths, Learnings from the supply and demand in market places. We launched it in Manhattan and expanded it. The company has raised so far over $450 million from investors such as Pitango Venture Capital, Daimler, Kapor Capital, Hearst Ventures, or RiverPark Ventures. : Got it. In particular, my co-founder, Oren Shoval at Via and I had been friends since the early days in the military in Israel and the Air Force. Now Uber was extending through the app, and we would like to do the same, but we would like to do something completely new. Now Uber was extending through the app, and we would like to do the same, but we would like to do something completely new. There are so many pieces that go into it. So, I wasn’t really in any direct way part of Start-up Nation while in Israeli, but very much involved in the technology industry. That requires a big investment until you get to the right scale where you can start to see a return from that investment, and it requires a huge amount of fundraising and a huge effort. But as we collected the data over the years, we were able to build something that we felt really worked very well, and achieved the high level of efficiency, and started to really function as a mass transit system. Oren was just finishing up his Ph.D. at the Wiseman Institute in Israel in systems biology. ViaVan | 4,127 followers on LinkedIn. We started out, we were the only person in the car, but then now the cars are full. Daniel Ramot: D. E. Shaw Research is a super interesting company. The other piece is our marketplace, the product we launched, fortunately for us had just a tremendous response from riders, from passengers. So, a lot of what we do at Via, there are things that I and some colleagues of mine who have come from D. Shaw learned at D. Shaw. You have Daimler. When it came to dividing the responsibilities, I think we could have gone either way. You know, that was part of the strategy was to just get that because when you think about when Via is useful to you—I mean, it can be useful for any sort of transportation around the city, obviously, just like any other form of transportation, but the most important use case in some sense is your daily, whether it’s commute, or if you’re going to school, or whatever it is that you are doing once, twice a day, that sort of use case and that repeat use is really a core part of our business. And those six months are super valuable. The company has raised so far over $450 million from investors such as Pitango Venture Capital, Daimler, Kapor Capital, Hearst Ventures, or RiverPark Ventures. I don’t think the regulators every contemplated that, but just by chance, by luck perhaps, the way they’re written, it was legal to provide these shared rides. I guess from studying how the brain works, what were your biggest lessons? | 161 Kontakte | Vollständiges Profil von Daniel auf LinkedIn anzeigen und vernetzen I think that’s one piece. What’s stopping you from launching tomorrow? : Got it. What were some of your biggest takeaways from this experience? I think that’s the best validation. How did the entrepreneurial bug all the sudden hit you one day? I think one of the bits of feedback we got early on is that as founders you want to find someone who really compliments your skills. So, maybe, to be fair, those cities and transit agencies that didn’t really want to talk to us in 2013 were actually pretty smart, because I think the system we had then, it wasn’t really good enough. You were talking about Oren, your co-founder. When we came back around in 2017 after launching in New York, Chicago, D.C., and really, really growing it, we felt that we had collected enough data, and we had enough proof points to demonstrate that this was really working. I think we talked to a few hundred people to do a bit of a market survey. That was definitely some feedback we got. Alejandro: Got it. And that’s what we’re starting to see in some of those cities we’re operating at scale where there’s a real opportunity to create a very high penetration service. Looked like he could have a very promising academic career. : They always say that ideas don’t just happen overnight. Daniel Ramot: You know, today, the business has really evolved, and in some sense, it’s come back full-circle because when we first had the idea, we thought we’re going to build the software. We built a really neat simulation of how this would work on top of which actually sat that initial version of the algorithm. That was a regulatory innovation if you will. We would actually like to dispatch shared rides, have multiple passengers in each vehicle. I came to the U.S. for graduate school. So, coming from the background that I had which was in engineering and computer science, and then some biology training that I got in grad school, being able to bring that all together into, sort of going back to engineering to building these machines, these supercomputers was just a really great challenge. Via, which says it … Daniel Ramot: Yeah, originally from Israel. Daniel Ramot: You can always email me. : And the business, you guys started in 2012. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Daniel’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Alejandro: I love it. This van-based transportation exists all over the world. It’s something between a private car, the convenience, the flexibility, and the very personally-tailored service that you have when you’re driving your own car. Oren’s and my background were too similar. Then at some point, Oren went back to Israel to the Wiseman Institute. If you think about it as almost a marketplace for seats, we connect to you as a passenger with a seat. So, a lot of what we do at Via, there are things that I and some colleagues of mine who have come from D. Shaw learned at D. Shaw. I think Oren has the benefit of being a bit of an outsider, looked at me and said, “What is that car? It’s really challenging. We were looking for that right idea that we could believe it and make that jump. They take some time to incubate, and even though we don’t know that’s the case, it just happens. They were doing private rides. I think this sort of tradeoff of risk between kind of de-risking certain aspects of the project, or of the startup, by working through some of these questions; but losing time. Alejandro Cremades leads the vision and execution for Panthera Advisors as its Co-Founder and…, : Alrighty. That’s the only marketplace we’ve built, so we don’t have experience with other marketplaces, but I would say that helped a little bit. Alejandro: Yeah. And you are reducing your risk in those dimensions, but what you don’t realize as a founder is that you are creating substantially other risks, which is substantially greater by delaying. I think the one thing I would have done differently, and the one piece of advice I would give to founders is to move really quickly. Four years there. How did the entrepreneurial bug all the sudden hit you one day? It’s part of the DNA, I would say and has been really key to our business from the very beginning that we were going to be very collaborative with the city and with regulators. The main thing I worked on there was building this very interesting supercomputer to try to run these simulations real quickly. I think that may be fair, but it’s hard for me to say. I think having that brand and having that success of cooperating initially in New York, then in Chicago, then Washington D.C. with the regulators, with the municipality, kind of created the foundation that we could then build on to—these days we have nearly 70 partners all over the world, different cities, public transit authorities, and so forth who we work with very closely to run public transportation. Then we’re introduced to these later-stage investors through either existing investors or other folks that we knew. He was doing very well. How was that transition for you? : Got it. Uber and Lift have their shared services, and so forth. We started building a relationship with them, and we effectively had their approval, in a sense, to launch, or their comments that we didn’t need any special dispensation. I did my Ph.D., and I had some experience at D. E. Shaw. We would actually like to dispatch shared rides, have multiple passengers in each vehicle. Obviously, the other ridesharing companies, they were added since like 2009, and you have the other established companies that are more on the offline-type of environment. Today, we’re going to be talking a lot about Via. Then from there forward, I think the key thing that you learn while doing a Ph.D., and I can’t say that transportation is exactly the brain. I think in that tradeoff, time is the most valuable resource you have when you’re starting, and you should move very quickly. So, by the time we had launched the company formerly, we had nearly a million dollars, I would say, in commitments from early backers. Ramot - Tel Aviv University's Tech Transfer Arm | 1,622 followers on LinkedIn. And you got your Ph.D., so not bad at all. So, today, we have nearly 70 cities in which we operate: cities, corporate campuses, college campuses in which we either operate or are launching very shortly, including four additional cities in which we run our own consumer marketplace in Europe, in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Milton Keynes, and in addition to New York, Chicago, and D.C. Would that work?” We basically got the okay to do that within the statute. Trying to distill that into a specific question that in the course of a Ph.D. you can ask and hopefully try to answer at least a small piece of it. The company, founded in 2012 by Daniel Ramot and Oren Shoval, has raised over $130 million (£102 million) from … In the end, we ended up getting about $700,000 out of the million that we thought we had after we had been any kind of launching company. Also, you seem to have been the one that took the reigns on the business side. That was where we initially started. I think there are a lot of techniques that we use in science and computer science that we can—obviously, many people have done this and are doing this where you can try to understand how the brain works. Obviously, there are a lot of regulation, and what the business challenges were. We were both part of this same program in the military. I’d say that’s what’s really transferable. We talk about the best ways to understand what the Air Force needs and how to sell it to them. How was it? We basically converted them, you know, the most expensive limousine into a bus, which was interesting. I will do my best to answer, I promise. I’ve got to blame you for that. I have to say we had a number of quite terrible ideas that I’m very happy we didn’t choose to pursue. Daniel Ramot: Yeah, that’s a good question. View the profiles of professionals named "Daniel Pepper" on LinkedIn. A lot of what I try to do, in my Ph.D. was try to utilize some of the knowledge and experience that I had in server engineering and bring it into neuroscience. This is my first startup. I think this sort of tradeoff of risk between kind of de-risking certain aspects of the project, or of the startup, by working through some of these questions; but losing time. I also learned a lot from David Shaw and from others at the company about how to run a company. It was a great learning experience. It became famous for being one of the first hedge funds to trade using computers, using computational algorithms, and was really one of the leaders in the field of quantitative trading and still is. Daniel Ramot: I think, on the one hand, we benefited from the fact that Uber had already launched their service in New York. I guess from studying how the brain works, what were your biggest lessons? Oren spent a couple of years at McKenzie. It was a little bit of a semantic challenge. : Pretty cool. You pass your cash up to the front. So, we did quite a bit of market surveys. Those vehicles, we allow you to book a seat. One day, you’ve got a ton of demand, and you’re super stressed about, as in our case, not having enough drivers on the platform. How to think a lot about recruiting. Being able to apply concepts that you have learned from your time doing something else to a completely different industry. Add a new link about Daniel Ramot; Delete any non-relevant links for Daniel Ramot; Do you need to know more about Daniel Ramot? It’s a really interesting, obviously, question to study how does the brain work? I think when you think about the problem Via is trying to solve which inherently has a lot to do with traffic, and traffic systems, and interactions between people, and road systems, and traffic, thinking about that in a structured, analytical way, thinking about how to distill a complex system like that into some simple equations much like you could think about how do I take the brain and behavior and try to instill that into a set of simple equations and use data to do that? I said, “That’s the most luxurious limousine that you could find in New York. So, we had some McKenzie experience. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Danny’s connections and jobs at similar companies. If you go peer-to-peer drivers, folks were bringing their own car and then picking up passengers. I applied to schools in the U.S. and ended up getting accepted into Stanford and went there for school. We probably only had signed up four different cities for our service. There are 90+ professionals named "Daniel Pepper", who use LinkedIn … Daniel CHANTRENNE | Frankfurt am Main und Umgebung, Deutschland | I worked as Consultant Facilities Services for a new Customer account in Europe. So then, you come to do your studies at Stanford. We knew that we wanted to do something entrepreneurial. Throughout that period, I developed a real interest in studying the brain and trying to understand how the brain works. They’re not getting any work. A lot of what I try to do, in my Ph.D. was try to utilize some of the knowledge and experience that I had in server engineering and bring it into neuroscience. ViaVan was founded in 2017 as a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz Vans and Via. Of course, I get it, and it’s brilliant.” That was that moment that I think we decided to do it. It’s a pleasure to be talking to you. On the other end where it’s certainly not tailored to an individual. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the DealMakers Show. : I think, on the one hand, we benefited from the fact that Uber had already launched their service in New York. Daniel, why did you decide to give your notice? You guys did a really, really great job on that. Daniel Ramot: I think, to me, on-demand transit, which I define as different from on-demand taxis where you’re booking a car. Why haven’t you done it yet? On the one hand, we had all these, what I would call maybe ride hailing companies that had already been operating for maybe a couple of years. If you go peer-to-peer drivers, folks were bringing their own car and then picking up passengers. : Thanks. What happened here? We didn’t have the first mover advantage on the whole idea of using an app to book a ride, for sure. Working closely with cities and public transit operators, ViaVan … I don’t think the regulators every contemplated that, but just by chance, by luck perhaps, the way they’re written, it was legal to provide these shared rides. The funny thing is that if you look at what some of the other players have raised, whether it’s Didi in China, Grab, Uber, and so forth, it feels like a tiny amount of money, which is frankly ridiculous. : Originally from Israel. So, when you think about the market for on-demand mass transportation where you’re booking a seat, and the vehicle that you’re in is a little bit larger than your standard car, and it’s shared by multiple passengers, and you’re really trying to build a dynamic bus that compliments the existing public transportation system whether it’s the subway, the tram, the light rail, and the high-capacity bus rounds, and perhaps replaces the under-performing low-utilized bus routes. And there’s nothing against it. One day, you’ve got a ton of demand, and you’re super stressed about, as in our case, not having enough drivers on the platform. We thought, “Our service is very low-cost. The driver passes back the change. You have 83North, Hearst Venture, just to name a few. We took an approach which has been really key. How to think a lot about recruiting. : I think, to me, on-demand transit, which I define as different from on-demand taxis where you’re booking a car. The people there was great, and the project was just super interesting. Oren was actually in Boston for a year with his advisor who had moved to Harvard and spent a year there. What we needed to do was just make sure that that regulatory avenue would also allow us to dispatch shared rides so that it would be okay for that driver from a regulative perspective to pick up multiple passengers. : Great. Those first six months were really challenging because I essentially had two jobs. That was a great experience trying to bring that together into biology. It wasn’t easy to make that transition, so one thing that I remember trying to do pretty consciously with myself, it’s funny, I started telling all of my friends that I was going to do this so that I would create an environment for myself that it would be very difficult to back out because it was a difficult thing to do. I think that we had this idea, Oren and I, and then we took about six months, if not longer, to really prove to ourselves that it was a great idea in some sense; prove to ourselves that if we left our jobs and launched into it full-time, then we would have some financial backing by lining up investors, really work through the business case. We thought, “Our service is very low-cost. I have to say because I really enjoyed what I was doing at D. E. Shaw. In fact, if you were to ask me other than the subway, I believe it has a really good likelihood of becoming the major way in which people get around cities because it hits this sweet spot. As I head towards the end of my time with founders during these interviews, I always typically ask the same question towards the end, and that is if you could go to the past and give yourself advice before launching your first business, in this case, let’s say Via, what would that advice be and why? I think I had just always had this desire to start a company of my own. I think in that tradeoff, time is the most valuable resource you have when you’re starting, and you should move very quickly. They started using our service, which was not super expected. What were some of those early days like there? Google was the 88th before coming to market and look at them today. We wanted to start a company. Daniel Ramot: We’ve raised, at this point, about 450 million dollars for Via. The data was a crucial piece, and I’m not sure we fully appreciated in the beginning because that feeds back into the algorithm and has really driven the system to be dramatically improved versus the original version that we built. So, we were running these simulations called molecular dynamics that allowed us to visualize how proteins interact with drug molecules, how proteins fold, how they change their shape when they bind a drug molecule and try to use those simulations to discover new drugs. The van kept showing up. Daniel Ramot: That’s a great question. So, we were using algorithms, computational techniques, and computers to try to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. I think you can learn that stuff if you take the time. The business piece, I think, you can learn. Lift had not launched yet by the time we were coming up with the idea. I’ve been doing marketplaces for about ten years now. It was not a very big company. That approach of working together with cities, together with regulators, or partnering with them, has been very beneficial for us, and I think is what has allowed our business to evolve, to be honest, was the intention from the beginning to evolve also into and have a piece of the business. We are engineers—some really interesting complex mathematical problem. Alejandro: Nice. The Hearst Ventures, for example—this is one example, and there are actually quite a few other examples. I think there are a lot of techniques that we use in science and computer science that we can—obviously, many people have done this and are doing this where you can try to understand how the brain works. At that time, it was mostly high-end kind of UberBlack service. Daniel Ramot co-founded Via Transportation, which operates on-demand vans in cities including Seattle. The way that the regulations were written, it was clear that you could do that. As I head towards the end of my time with founders during these interviews, I always typically ask the same question towards the end, and that is if you could go to the past and give yourself advice before launching your first business, in this case, let’s say Via, what would that advice be and why? It was a little bit of a semantic challenge. : I spent the first, I guess, nine years of post-high school in the Israeli military. Maybe if I were to think about what is the key skill that a founding team needs? Can you really not just start tomorrow? Targeting the gap between outdated public transit and expensive luxury car services, the Via platform operates in New York City and Chicago, has provided more than two million rides, and is growing rapidly. : Having a corporate job, it’s quite comfortable. I think that may be fair, but it’s hard for me to say. I think what’s much more important in a sense between founders is that you have a common understanding and that you get along really well, and that you work together well, and that you are just compatible in that way that you’re going to be successful together solving really hard problems because you’re going to run into a lot of really hard problems. Oren’s based in Tel Aviv. On the other end where it’s certainly not tailored to an individual. Daniel has a Ph.D in neuroscience from Stanford. And you are reducing your risk in those dimensions, but what you don’t realize as a founder is that you are creating substantially other risks, which is substantially greater by delaying. What was that experience for you guys? Obviously, being in New York, especially, is very commercial, very business-oriented. It’s a business that’s very susceptible to intense swings in almost in your mood. We were looking for that right idea that we could believe it and make that jump. Alejandro: Got it. And that’s what we’re starting to see in some of those cities we’re operating at scale where there’s a real opportunity to create a very high penetration service. How did this come about? Uber and Lift have their shared services, and so forth. Via is headquartered in New York with offices in Tel Aviv and Chicago. You pass your cash up to the front. Also, you seem to have been the one that took the reigns on the business side. We were in the same program together, training, and studying before then. In order to have that, you need money to finance it. : You know, it was exciting and exhausting all at the same time, I would say. That was where we initially started. Prior to Via, Ramot built supercomputers designed to discover new … I think that connection that we have, that ability to work together very effectively, that was really the most important piece for us in this understanding. We probably only had signed up four different cities for our service. I’m daniel@ridewithvia.com. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Daniel’s connections and jobs at similar companies. I see the logo of Via; I don’t know how many times a day. Then through some friends got introduced to D. E. Shaw Research. Ramot mencantumkan 1 pekerjaan di profilnya. A lot of cities and regulators were opposed to it. So that sharing, again, was happening between the driver and the passenger and was referred to as ridesharing. So, we started approaching different cities around the world saying, “Would you like to use this in 2017” a couple of years ago. In particular, we were trying to use larger vehicles. Alejandro: The logo is just so big it feels like it’s punching you in the face every time you see it, but I mean in a good way. Then at some point, Oren went back to Israel to the Wiseman Institute. One day he called me with essentially the idea for Via, and he had been trying to get from one place to another in Israel using a class of transport that we have in Israel called Charo taxis, which are basically translated to service taxi if you will, which is a fleet of vans often white that are not very techy. Alejandro: Got it. So, I learned a lot about technology and about building these complex systems. Then a lot of funding challenges that cities all over the world are really feeling, and therefore need to make their public services more efficient. Extend your search. I guess like in your guys’ experience really building a marketplace, it’s like launching two companies at the same time. We love it. : You know, today, the business has really evolved, and in some sense, it’s come back full-circle because when we first had the idea, we thought we’re going to build the software. That was quite a bit of time. Email Linkedin WhatsApp Prof. Cohen-Or Daniel My research interests are in Computer Graphics, Visual Computing and Geometric Modeling and including rendering and modeling techniques, Shape Analysis, Shape Creation and Editing, 3D Reconstruction, Photo Processing, compression and streaming techniques, visibility, point set representation, morphing and volume graphics. During the week I was working at D. E. Shaw Research as did Oren. Before this, what was life like in Israel and especially with Start-up Nation? After we came up with the idea, I went to my colleagues, and my boss at the D. E. Shaw Research and I said, “Listen. So, getting that logo in front of you all the time, so that you are constantly reminded, “Oh, I can use Via, and then hopefully, that time back to this routine daily use was really a key part of what we were doing. LinkedIn/Orit Hashay Brayola.com is a personalised online bra shopping platform. 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