Flying the World, Finishing Shas | Yossi (Joseph) Landes

Описание: New episode of Shtark Tank: Yossi (Joseph) Landes— President & Co-Founder of Nerdio (a unicorn), and a 23-year veteran of Microsoft.



I expected a conversation about startups, leadership, and scale.



What I didn’t expect was how much we’d talk about Gemara, Daf Yomi, and the Gedolim.



Yossi shares how he grew in learning even though he didn’t see himself as a top learner in yeshiva, why he keeps pictures of Torah giants on his desk, and how he built a real system for hasmada while living and traveling around the world.

We also get into lessons he learned from Satya Nadella, and how ideas from yeshiva and the corporate world can actually strengthen each other.



✅ In this episode:

Growing in Torah learning after yeshiva (even if you struggled back then)
Daf Yomi on trains, planes, airports, and “pockets of downtime”
Staying grounded in Torah while leading a fast-growing tech company
Building trust, empathy, and “outside-in” thinking in business
Huge hakaras hatov to Chabad for making travel possible as a frum Jew
Aliyah plans and building a future of more learning in Nofei HaShemesh


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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro + who Yossi is
01:13 From Yeshivat Shaalvim to Microsoft to Nerdio
03:40 Life in the field: Munich, Moscow, Prague, India, Brazil
10:07 Early travel as a frum Jew (before apps)
15:10 The Daf Yomi journey + learning even when you feel “behind”
24:39 “Pockets of downtime” and building a real learning system
32:04 Family life + the cost of moving abroad
39:27 Learn-it-all vs know-it-all (and why it matters)
47:21 Aliyah + what’s next
48:45 Travel lightning round
52:21 Quick favorites + final question
53:45 Closing

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