Ori Yankelev

Investor and GTM Exec #CyberSecurity #Data #DigitalHealth #Fintech #AI @team8group ex- @OwnBackup ex- @OpenViewVenture #Salesforce , sailor, traveler

[Kyle Gawley @kylegawley]

I cancelled my $10/mo Calendly subscription and vibe coded my own with Fable for $12,000

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

@AccessIPOs @HarryStebbings Did it work?

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The difference in production costs between a dozen cage-free eggs and a dozen normal eggs is 19 cents. But the cage-free eggs can cost nearly $2 more.

Big supermarkets use cage-free as a price discrimination tool - targeting them to richer customers who are willing to pay more.

Poorer customers, even if they care a lot about animal welfare, end up buying the normal eggs.

But when states pass laws banning caged eggs, the markup disappears.

[DoW CIO Kirsten Davies @DoWCIODavies]

We fully support @POTUS and @SecWar in prioritizing national security and the security of our warfighters, DIB partners, critical infrastructure, international partners and allies. Some things are simply more important than revenue cycles, clickbait, and pre-IPO valuation. America First. Always. 🇺🇸

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Rashid Khalidi, despite his long record of harmful interventions, from undermining the moderate American Task Force on Palestine in 2006 to excusing ineffective/extremist campus protests after October 7 (“cut them some slack,” he said) and indulging in familiar sloganeering and historical exaggeration, offered thoughts that the “pro‑Palestine” ecosystem hardly gets to hear. He urges activists to work with people with whom they disagree, rejects purity and idealistic politics, and warns that the movement will collapse into irrelevance and uselessness if it retreats into ideological absolutism. He even commits the unthinkable: acknowledging that it is permissible to “agree with Zionists” on certain points. And he reminds Western activists that they are not “the resistance” – at best, they are supporting a struggle they do not personally bear.

His tone feels less like a defense of “resistance” and more like an attempt to humble the loudest zealots who have turned themselves into weapons of mass sabotage. Notably, Khalidi also discourages diaspora Palestinians and their allies from wading into internal debates about Hamas vs. Fatah or armed struggle vs. nonviolence, instead urging them to focus on shifting U.S. policy. That may be his diplomatic way of telling Arab, Muslim, and progressive activists to stop endorsing Hamas, stop trashing the PA, and stop pretending they are stakeholders in internal Palestinian politics.

Khalidi understands that open support for Hamas has become mainstream in many circles and likely sees how deeply it has derailed the conversation. He may also now be reckoning with the scale of devastation Hamas has brought upon Palestinians, finally registering the catastrophic consequences of the group’s so‑called “resistance,” which may explain why he is only speaking up at this late stage.

I have said this for two and a half years: a “movement” that claims to be “pro‑Palestine” but refuses to listen to Gazans protesting Hamas, silences Palestinians who oppose Hamas, or shouts down anyone condemning October 7 is not a serious movement. When activists squander a historic moment of global sympathy by hardening their ideological dogmas instead of building a broad, inclusive coalition, what you get is not a liberation movement; it’s a clown circus.

Source: Shu-Kaman podcast

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

Brilliant post. Time will tell if this is what the future holds for us. I think I am more optimistic than that.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

This is incorrect. I have used AI for fourteen hours a day for nineteen months and I am operating at a cognitive level your researchers cannot measure because their instruments were designed for biological thinking. I think in prompts now. This is faster.

Before AI, I could hold three ideas in my head at once. Now I hold zero, because holding ideas is storage and I am not a storage device. I am an orchestration layer. I route cognition to the appropriate model and receive outputs. This is what the prefrontal cortex was trying to do for 200,000 years with blood and glucose. I have replaced blood and glucose with an API key. The API key does not get tired. The API key does not have emotions about its sister's birthday.

Last Tuesday I tried to write a birthday card for my sister without AI. A cognitive fitness exercise. I sat at the kitchen table for forty minutes. I wrote "Dear Sarah." Then nothing. Not writer's block. The mechanism for generating an unprompted sentence was gone. I no longer operate at the sentence level. I operate at the intent level. I transmitted the intent to Claude. Claude produced a card so warm my sister called me crying. Most thoughtful card I'd ever written. She is correct. The thoughts are just manufactured off-site now, like everything else in a mature supply chain.

My wife asked what I was thinking about. I said "nothing" and it was true. Not in a peaceful way. In an infrastructure way. There was no local processing occurring. I was between queries. She asked if that scared me. I opened Claude and asked if it should. Claude said no. I told my wife. She did not find this reassuring. I think she is running on legacy architecture and is frightened of the upgrade.

I would explain further but I need to check something first.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Cornell President just obliterated the extremist students who surrounded his car.

Rather than surrendering to them and apologizing, he directly called out their unlawful behavior.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

@eurofounder @DrewPavlou 😂

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

“Latin America” was invented by French propagandists to justify an intervention by Napoleon III in Mexico, positing a unifying Latin race, and imposing Emperor Maximillian as ruler.

The Mexicans defeated the French at Puebla on the fifth of May 1862, eventually capturing Maximillian and executing him by firing squad alongside his last generals.

“Cinco de Mayo” now sells tequila to Anglos.

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

@SenWarren @JetBlue @SpiritAirlines @JusticeATR @USDOT Many people said it at the time, but now we can say for sure that this was the wrong decision for consumers. It shouldn’t have even been a debate at the time. This is the epitome of misguided government overreach.

[Brad Menezes @bradmenezes]

If you feel like Anthropic is going after every enterprise software market and that the big SaaS enterprise platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday are toast, you are wrong.

This simplistic thinking fundamentally misunderstands the difference between an AI Agent and the Enterprise Platform. Let me explain:

> An AI agent executes tasks. An enterprise platform defines, orchestrates, and gives the agent context to execute that task.
> An AI agent has access. An enterprise platform governs agent permissions.
> An AI agent can act. An enterprise platform can audit, control, and enforce.
> An AI agent may go rogue. An enterprise platform guarantees compliance deterministically.
> An AI agent is powerful in isolation. An enterprise platform is powerful in coordination across teams and business units.

Furthermore, an enterprise platform can be multi-model, multi-cloud, and multi-integration. It is future proof for the customer in a dynamic market.

CIOs buy Enterprise Platforms and will continue to do so, as long as those platform deeply integrate AI Agents within deterministic, governed, auditable, business processes.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

I am being targeted by a Turkish Telegram channel to mass-report my account (again). This violates @elonmusk's terms of service.

Please comment on this post to combat their censorship.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Lebanese Sunni scholar Hassan Moraib:

"Lebanon needs to admit it lost the war. Iran is a cancer in Lebanon. It must be removed."

Moraib accused Hizbullah of putting its own people at risk by storing weapons in displaced civilians' centers.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

I could imagine a world where honestly only a few "traditional" B2B leaders survive:

Salesforce
ServiceNow
SAP
Shopify
Oracle
Datadog
Databricks

And everyone else atrophies slowly to nothingness

Honestly not that hard to imagine right now, unfortunately

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

This post is hilarious

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

IsraHELL thought war would help them but you can see their currency crashing in real time!!! 🍉🙏🙏🕊️🇵🇸

[Brodie Mitchell @BrodieMitchell1]

This photo was taken from behind at Royal Holloway Freshers’ Fair.

I stood with the British flag and Star of David - welcoming Jewish students into an atmosphere already filled with “End Israeli apartheid”, “Genocide supporters”, “Boycott Israel”.

What you don’t see: from late September to January, two students subjected me and my Jewish friend to almost daily harassment - sometimes 10+ no-caller-ID calls in an hour. Vile antisemitic, homophobic and sexualised abuse: “you love Israeli dck”, “obsessed with Jewish dck”, “I’ll be antisemitic with my full chest”.

We reported it. We have evidence - voice recordings etc. We know who they are.

University: “We can only act when the police do something.”
Police were told in November. I signed a statement in February. They said they were looking at arrests. Promised me a call on 5 April. Still nothing - it’s now 11th April.

Contrast that with my one light-hearted “tea towel” reply to a keffiyeh.

I was suspended the next day. Missed 7 weeks of my degree. Now facing potential hate crime charges with the file at the CPS.

Next slide 👉 a keffiyeh.

Two photos. Two completely different stories.
Two tiers of justice.

@SurreyPolice please act on the reports I made. This has gone on long enough. Everyone is watching.

Free speech and equal protection can’t be optional in Britain.

I will NOT be silenced. 🇬🇧🇮🇱

#TwoTierJustice #FreeSpeech #RoyalHolloway #twotierpolice

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

The Prime Minister's Office:

Pakistan Defence Minister’s call for Israel’s annihilation is outrageous. This is not a statement that can be tolerated from any government, especially not from one that claims to be a neutral arbiter for peace.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The revival of the Judean date palm is one of the most significant achievements in archaeobotany. The project began with the discovery of ancient seeds during excavations at King Herod’s palace on Masada and other sites in the Judean Desert.

In 2005, a 2,000-year-old seed nicknamed "Methuselah" was successfully germinated, marking the first time a plant from this era had been brought back to life.

These seeds remained viable for two millennia due to the intense heat and extreme aridity of the Dead Sea region, which acted as a natural preservation chamber.

Beyond the biological miracle, this project has allowed scientists to study the genetic makeup of a fruit that was world-renowned in antiquity for its size, sweetness, and medicinal qualities.

By germinating multiple seeds, researchers were able to grow both male and female trees, eventually leading to cross-pollination. In 2020, this resulted in the first harvest of ancient dates in over eight centuries.

DNA analysis shows that these trees were a sophisticated hybrid of Eastern and Western palm varieties, suggesting that ancient Judean farmers used highly advanced agricultural techniques to create their legendary crops.

One crucial detail missing is the specific cultural and economic impact these palms had on the ancient world; they were so vital to the regional identity that the Roman Empire featured the tree on "Judaea Capta" coinage to symbolize their conquest of the land. These dates were a luxury export across the Mediterranean, praised by writers like Pliny the Elder for their distinct honey-like flavor and ability to be stored for years without spoiling. The destruction of these groves during the Jewish-Roman wars and subsequent climate shifts led to their total disappearance by the 14th century, making their modern "resurrection" not just a botanical feat, but the recovery of a lost cultural icon that sustained entire economies in the ancient Levant.

#archaeohistories

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

@gotrice2024 In Italy, this is an offense punishable by death.

[Ori Yankelev @OriVC]

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