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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, Updated Edition
A Handbook for Entrepreneurs
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About The Book
And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it.
As the cofounder of Waze—the world’s leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion—Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies.
Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and his second unicorn, Moovit, revealing the formula that drove those companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. He offers tips on:
- Firing and hiring
- Disrupting “broken” markets
- Raising funding
- Understanding your users
- Reaching product market fit
- Making scale-up decisions
- Going global
- Deciding when to sell
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution offers mentorship in a book from one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, and empowers you to build a successful business by identifying your consumers’ biggest problems and disrupting the inefficient markets that currently serve them.
Product Details
- Publisher: Matt Holt Books (February 18, 2025)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9781637746608
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Raves and Reviews
"""The best insider account about Waze you'll ever get . . . Offers lessons in succeeding as an entrepreneur.""
—Peter Coy, The New York Times
""Waze co-founder Uri Levine has one of the rarest of all entrepreneurial traits: he has the skills and persistence to have launched multiple successful companies, paired with the self-awareness to know how he did it. In Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shares these hard-won truths with the rest of us . . . It should be required reading for every aspiring entrepreneur.""
—Marc Randolph, Co-founder, Netflix
""A window into the entrepreneurial mind that through passion, perseverance, and accountability can change the world . . . Reading this book feels as if you're a mentee sitting with Uri to understand the next step in your start-up adventure—practical considerations combined with memorable mantras that drive entrepreneurs to ask the right questions and optimize chances of success throughout their journey.""
—Jennifer Fleiss, Co-founder, Rent the Runway
""Uri Levine provides unique insights on what builds enduring entrepreneurial success. The entrepreneurial path is a journey through a labyrinth of challenges that requires a passion for problem-solving that delivers timely solutions—a must-read for every start-up that yearns to be a unicorn and beyond.""
—Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson and Founder, Biocon
""Waze was the first Israeli consumer app to blast through the entrepreneurial equivalent of the four-minute mile barrier: a billion-dollar exit. Since then, Israel has produced dozens of ‘unicorns,' but it was Waze that paved the way. And Uri Levine just kept going, the quintessential serial entrepreneur. When he gives you advice, it's time to sit back, listen, and learn.""
—Saul Singer, New York Times bestselling co-author of Start-Up Nation"
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