He Made $189,000 in Profit in a Single Month, Then Sold the Whole Thing to Wix for $80 Million. Six Months In. (opens in new tab)

The lawyers finished the Base44 paperwork on a Thursday night. The signing was set for Friday morning. That same Friday morning, the war with Iran broke out. Maor Shlomo signed anyway. That detail is the whole story in miniature. A guy in Israel, between reserve duty call-ups, sells a company he started as a side project, and the missiles are a scheduling problem. The setup Shlomo was not a kid with a dream and a laptop. He had already co-founded Explorium, a data analytics company that raise...