{"id":9879,"date":"2017-08-02T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T03:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/?p=9879"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:29:14","slug":"yossi-vardi-bo-gia-cua-gioi-khoi-nghiep-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/yossi-vardi-bo-gia-cua-gioi-khoi-nghiep-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yossi Vardi, the \u2018Godfather\u2019 of Israeli Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surname<\/strong>\u00a0call\u00a0<\/strong>he\u00a0<\/strong>is \u201c<\/strong>the king of startups,\u201d the \u201cprophet\u201d and the \u201cgodfather\u201d of Israel's technology industry. He is Yossi Vardi, the \u201cfather\u201d of more than 80 technology startups and Israel's first technology startup \u201csuperstar.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The godfather of Israeli technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph \u201cYossi\u201d Vardi helped successfully build Israel's technology startup community. Among these companies was Mirabilis, which created ICQ, the world's first Internet messaging software. The 74-year-old has also served as a strategic adviser to online retailer Amazon and global Internet services corporation AOL. He is also vice chairman of the site\u00a0yalla.co.il<\/em>, an eBay-style version from Israe<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2011, he was named among Europe\u2019s top 25 technology figures (Tech\u2019s Top 25), selected by the publication\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>. In 2009, Yossi won \u201cEurope's Best Investor,\u201d selected by technology site\u00a0TechCrunch<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This veteran entrepreneur is also one of the initiators of Pitango, one of Israel\u2019s largest venture-capital funds. The \u2018godfather\u2019 Yossi Vardi has helped bring more than 80 Israeli technology companies into existence, the newspaper\u00a0Jewish Business Times<\/em>\u00a0said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Companies he invested in have attracted technology giants: Yahoo acquired Foxytunes for 30 million USD, Microsoft acquired Gteko for 120 million USD, Cisco took over Tivella, and ePay acquired The Gift Project. His developing startups are also growing rapidly; AtlasCT, for example, is now considered a promising competitor to Google Maps.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople\u201d Are the Formula for Success<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With this remarkable track record, many would think Yossi is like King Midas in Greek mythology, whose touch turned everything to gold. However, in an interview with\u00a0TechCrunch<\/em>\u00a0in 2011, this technology startup master admitted that his list of failures was \u201ctoo long to count.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping those painful failures in mind, he developed a positive approach to potential investments: \u2018Judge people by their business plans,\u2019 not their past failures. He believes entrepreneurs who have failed hunger for victory more than others.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Yossi invests in is not a company or an idea, but the people who create them: entrepreneurs. \u201cI am just a lucky nobody working with guys 3 times younger and 3 times smarter than me,\u201d he once humbly said of himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1997, Arik Vardi and a few friends approached his father, Yossi Vardi, to ask him to invest in Mirabilis, an unknown startup. \u2018I knew very well that the kids were talented. I sent them a little money. And the rest is history,\u2019 Yossi recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Less than 19 months after ICQ launched, AOL quickly snapped it up for a total of nearly USD 400 million. ICQ's success fired the opening shot of Israel's technology startup wave, which continues to this day. Yossi's investment decision created what the magazine\u00a0Forbes<\/em>called the \u201cMirabilis Effect,\u201d as many talented young Israelis resolved to follow this company's example in pursuit of success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI search for talented people. I do not search for ideas because I do not understand them. It is a land where I am a stranger, while those young people are the natives. I want people who are talented, kind, and quick-witted. If they know how to orient a product toward users, I will be interested in their idea,\u201d Yossi shared.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng tr\u00ecnh li\u00ean quan t\u1ea1i YUP Education:<\/strong> X-Startup \u2013 kh\u00f3a h\u1ecdc kh\u1edfi nghi\u1ec7p \u00abKh\u1edfi Ch\u00e1nh Nghi\u1ec7p\u00bb<\/a> \u00b7 The Journey \u2013 l\u1ed9 tr\u00ecnh ph\u00e1t tri\u1ec3n doanh nh\u00e2n<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H\u1ecd\u00a0g\u1ecdi\u00a0\u00f4ng\u00a0l\u00e0 \u201cvua kh\u1edfi nghi\u1ec7p\u201d, l\u00e0 \u201cnh\u00e0 ti\u00ean tri\u201d, l\u00e0 \u201cb\u1ed1 gi\u00e0\u201d c\u1ee7a ng\u00e0nh c\u00f4ng ngh\u1ec7 Israel. \u00d4ng l\u00e0 Yossi Vardi, \u201ccha \u0111\u1ebb\u201d c\u1ee7a h\u01a1n 80 startup c\u00f4ng ngh\u1ec7, \u201csi\u00eau sao\u201d kh\u1edfi nghi\u1ec7p t\u1eeb c\u00f4ng ngh\u1ec7 \u0111\u1ea7u ti\u00ean c\u1ee7a Israel. B\u1ed1 gi\u00e0 c\u1ee7a c\u00f4ng ngh\u1ec7 Israel Joseph \u201cYossi\u201d Vardi \u0111\u00e3 g\u00f3p tay x\u00e2y d\u1ef1ng th\u00e0nh c\u00f4ng […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18276,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions\/18276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}