Meir Val­man brings a historian’s per­spec­tive, shaped by his stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, to the forces that influ­enced Israel’s tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment. He pre­vi­ous­ly served as Direc­tor of Invest­ment Research at an invest­ment house and lat­er became Direc­tor of Research at Start-Up Nation Cen­tral, a non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to sup­port­ing and strength­en­ing Israel’s tech ecosystem.