Israeli Startup During Hamas Invasion
I read a plea from Kevin Natanzon on X:
Hi @harleyf, PLEASE HELP.
I live in Israel ??
And I woke up to MORE BAD NEWS.
Can it get any worse? Yes.
The main source of our revenue was cut.
@ShopifyDevs delisted our app.
Why? Because of a simple bug.
We have not monitored the app during the past week.
You see, I’m a little bit busy burying friends and helping other friends and family go through this fucking hell.
Yes, you read that right.
Want to help the people in Israel?
Expedite this ASAP, the team has already resolved it.
I invited Kevin to do an interview about what his startup has been going through since Hamas’ invasion, how his family is rebuilding their kibbutz, and how he’s been growing a startup in Israel, or as he kept referring to it, “Startup Nation.”
Kevin Natanzon is the founder of CreatorKit, a platform for ecommerce businesses to create images and videos with AI.
Andrew: Hey there Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of entrepreneurs. I should have had Kevin Natanzun here on Mixergy a while back. He built Creator Kit. It’s a platform to create images and videos using AI for e commerce stores.
So, you know, like if you, if you look at a store and they have this product looking beautiful in one scene and then another and another, they didn’t set up all these different photo shoots for it. They, They might’ve used creator kit to do it all online. And I, for some reason, didn’t have them on. And then yesterday I saw this tweet and I said, dude, you got to come on.
Let’s talk about what you’re going through and also how you built it. Kevin, good to have you here. Would you mind reading that tweet?
Kevin: Sure, happy to read it. Um, tweet was, uh, Hi Harley,...
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