Should You Start Your Own Company? ft. Alec Kremins (Founder, Baal Teshuva, Content Expert)

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And I will be the first one on a podcast in front of the world to say I want to make a lot of money and I want to be incredibly successful and I want to be known, but I don't want it to be the core part of my identity, right? I want to first be a Jew and a father and a husband and someone who moved to Israel and the big challenge is how does that not get taken over? It's funny because now now entrepreneurship is is like it's seen as such a cool thing. I I steer people away from starting their own companies depending on the individual and their circumstance. I was in college and I looked around me and I basically said if I continue down this path what is going to be the most likely outcome in my life? And the most likely outcome I think is that I'm going to be incredibly quote quote unquote successful monetarily and financially, you know, I'll probably be very rich in my 40s and 50s, but there is a high likelihood that I'll be divorced and my kids won't talk to me. what was next. >> It's actually, you know, it is Hashgacha Protis that we are recording this podcast. I don't know when it's going to go out to the listeners, but we're recording this on August 4th, 2025 2026 and exactly one year ago, exactly on August 4th, 2025, I was let go from my stable job. I was, you know, I say this very humbly, but I was living the dream of a lot of Americans that make Aliyah to Israel. Where I was working an amazing job at an American tech company making an American

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1. 0:00And I will be the first one on a podcast in front of the world to…
2. 3:46bit different. Uh when I graduated college, actually in college I started a company called Ember.…
3. 6:57moved to Israel and I think it was one of the greatest decisions in my life…
4. 10:09he was like it's such a zechut to be able to clean Yerushalayim to keep the…
5. 13:16societies and different cultures and how that influences people's approaches to their identity and work being…
6. 16:24you're making your money which can all be meaningful but in in different levels. So so…
7. 19:30honestly is very related to, you know, that moment I decided to explore Judaism a lot…
8. 22:40could be incredibly dangerous. And I think we all know entrepreneurs who let their ego get…
9. 25:53It is It is impossible and it's setting yourself up for failure. So, part A of…
10. 29:05what's the difference between like ideally someone posting something raw and authentic on LinkedIn versus sitting…

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