Daniel Shnaider
Recent posts focus on hiring & team, product & building and email deliverability.
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Age 18: Joined the Israeli military. Age 22: Captain rank. Age 26: Sent to military jail because I disagreed with my commander. Age 26: Met the son of Waze's founder in jail and decided what I wanted to do with my lif…
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I'm 36 years old, I run two tech companies. I've given up on marriage and kids to build this. I've also given up on: - Free and relaxed Sundays - Watching movies and sports - Having small talk with my colleagues - Com…
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My 1st business: Failed My 2nd business: Failed My 3rd business: Failed My 4th business: Failed My 5th business: Failed My 6th business: Failed My 7th business: Made only $2000 in the first year and $5000 in the second.…
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Things I'm SICK of hearing from my team members: → Can I leave early today? → Is it okay if I log off for a bit? → Sorry, my kid's not feeling well, can I rush off? → I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow, is that oka…
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pov: it's sunday, 11pm, and you're building strategy for your 117-person business it was saturday morning when we started. and now i'm still at my desk, in our HQ at Ukraine. people think founders live in freedom. lam…
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Morning job: Doing my $53,000 MBA in Vienna. Night job: Selling $35 Dead Sea cosmetics at Airport. Here's the full story: After quitting the military, I put all the money I saved in the past 6 years into doing my MBA d…
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5 days ago, I spent 2 hours with the founder of a Billion-dollar SaaS company (Public w/ 4000 FTE) at a conference in Europe. It was a small event, and this 52 y/o guy was reading a book at the corner. Usually people a…
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For 8 years, every business I started MISERABLY failed. One of my friends would refer to me on "Why someone shouldn't start a business." There were days I: - Couldn't afford to eat 3x a day - Sold $20 cosmetics to tour…
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If someone offered you $10 million, but said you wouldn't wake up tomorrow, would you take it? No... Right? Because tomorrow is worth more than any amount of money. So don't start hating your days just because they're…
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Once every 29 days, I gather my entire company (all 117 of them) to get one thing straight: LEADERSHIP (Yup, I talk about leadership at their faces for 45 minutes straight.) It's very intentional. Look, I graduated…
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In Israel, military service is mandatory (The govt. will drag you into the officer's school when you're 18 & make you train for 14 hours/ day) They made me do: - 15 km marches with loaded backpacks. - Navigation exercis…
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Jon Cross and I fix the same problem from opposite ends of it. He takes over broken email channels — routing, ESP config, list state. I spend my time on sender reputation and inbox placement. We compared notes on what…
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When I started my company 6 years ago, a friend told me: "you'll never make it." And I thought he was right. Because in our initial days: - It was just me and one other developer. - Priced our tool at $9/mon & nobody…
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"If you can't measure something, you can't manage it." This is the one management rule I never broke. But WHY?? 🤔 In our early days: - People were in back-to-back meetings - Every new problem was considered urgent - P…
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I've broken plenty of management rules building my company. (These are the ones I'd break again to protect my people👇) 1. "The customer is always right." I broke this one early. Some customers are rude. They don't s…
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In 2019, I stood in front of 4 judges on Shark Tank Israel and asked for $500K for 20% of my company. And I was rejected. This was years before ChatGPT. Before "AI" was a thing. I had built MelaShield - an app that u…
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In 2019, I stood in front of 4 judges on Shark Tank Israel and asked for $500K for 20% of my company. And I was rejected. This was years before ChatGPT. Before "AI" was a thing. I had built MelaShield - an app that u…
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My 1st business: Failed My 2nd business: Failed My 3rd business: Failed My 4th business: Failed My 5th business: Failed My 6th business: Failed My 7th business: Made only $2000 in the first year and $5000 in the second.…
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I've interviewed over 400 people in the last 5 yrs. IMO, it only takes 10 mins to filter out people. By the time a candidate reaches me (CEO/founder), they've already been through the full interview process. So I neve…
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I'm 36 years old, I run two tech companies. I've given up on marriage and kids to build this. I've also given up on: - Free and relaxed Sundays - Watching movies and sports - Having small talk with my colleagues - Com…
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