Judah Taub is co-founder and managing partner of Hetz Ventures, bringing an unusually technical background as former Head of Data at $20B hedge fund Lansdowne Partners where he applied algorithmic thinking to investing, plus five years as an IDF intelligence officer where he engineered a new intelligence collection method that won the IDF's 2014 top Creativity Award. He's known for importing concrete AI and algorithm techniques into business decision-making, authoring "How to Move Up When the Only Way Is Down" which uses AI optimization concepts like avoiding "local maximums" to teach founders better decision-making, and for his distinctive "backward-planning" framework that advises entrepreneurs to start their pitch from ambitious future milestones and work back to today. Judah Taub is co-founder and managing partner of Hetz Ventures, bringing an unusually technical background as former Head of Data at $20B hedge fund Lansdowne Partners where he applied algorithmic thinking to investing, plus five years as an IDF intelligence officer where he engineered a new intelligence collection method that won the IDF's 2014 top Creativity Award. He's known for importing concrete AI and algorithm techniques into business decision-making, authoring "How to Move Up When the Only Way Is Down" which uses AI optimization concepts like avoiding "local maximums" to teach founders better decision-making, and for his distinctive "backward-planning" framework that advises entrepreneurs to start t