2022年11月10日,

检查,已成为以色列高科技的代名词,它的成功,明年将庆祝30周年。“当我们开始我们必须重塑几乎一切,学习和发现,”吉尔·瑞说,公司的首席执行官和创始人之一,和苏菲舒尔曼在一起谈话发生的一部分Calcalist Mobileye系列高科技的效果。“今天有丰富的专业知识,最重要的是知识,几乎一切。世界发达国家和以色列今天有一个世界上最好的和最发达的生态系统。”Despite the temptations and attempts at persuasion over the years to move to the U.S., Shwed remains in Israel. "I strongly believe in living here. I love the country and high-tech allows us both to be here with the people we love and to be part of the global market. When you move from country to country, you lose the home-field advantage - getting to know people, recruiting employees, the ability to solve problems in a way you know. There are many difficulties in getting acclimated and absorbed in a foreign country, so I'm not sure the balance is positive." Gil Shwed. Photo: Calcalist Today there are more than 100 Israeli companies trading on Wall Street, and dozens of them are already worth over a billion dollars. When there are many veteran companies that reward their employees well, is there still motivation here to establish startups? "The motivation is huge. The model that the big companies are showing the young entrepreneurs attracts many more people to start a startup and be the next big thing. We are completely a 'scale-up nation' today. Five years ago there were few big companies, Check Point was one of the few with revenues of over a billion dollars, and today there is a group of 5-10 such companies, and it's a pleasure to see it." If you look at the number of employees, is there a glass ceiling for Israeli high-tech? "Of course. The limit of how many tech people can be trained in Israel is our bottleneck, and it depends on the education system and the investment in it. Is it 10%? 15%? I definitely think we can reach these numbers and even more. The global high-tech market has a thirst for very good people. Hundreds of thousands of workers in Israel in high-tech are like one company in India. So we are not the Indian model of outsourcing and we have not been a low-cost country for a long time - we are considered one of the most expensive countries in the world today. But there is definitely talent here that can support many more companies." We are in a time of crisis and the reactions to layoffs in companies are often met with unbridled joy. Mixed feelings have developed towards Israeli high-tech because it has distanced itself from the general public. Do you recognize that? "Only to a certain extent. My employees and I receive a lot of praise. The dream of being in high-tech belongs to everyone, and high-tech reaches everywhere. The Corona revolution has brought the periphery even closer to the center, because today you can live anywhere and work in high-tech. High-tech belongs to everyone, there are developer jobs that require a lot of technological training alongside many other jobs in the fields of marketing and operations and other fields that support high-tech." Do you feel that there is some kind of jealousy because there are like two separate economies here? "I feel that there is more of a coming together. When I was looking for good people 30 years ago, it was very difficult to find them in the traditional industries, because those were two different worlds. Today there is no problem with the transition and I recruit people who work in the traditional industries and sometimes people leave us in favor of such companies. A very high level work culture has been created in Israel, and in most cases high-tech pulled the standards of the market up." Related articles: