A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not For You.


You can’t go ten minutes without someone talking about AI, but most of the time, it’s hype without substance. Almost Human exists to change that; to dig past the noise and reach the sharp ideas, technical breakthroughs, and human stories that actually shape the future.
Let’s cut through the noise.
A Call to Israeli Engineers! Adtech Is Not For You.


Years ago, in Part 1 of the Humus Manifesto, I wrote about the talent shortage in Israel which partially derived from talent trapped at a lot of small companies that would not scale. Today, I think that Israel has a much, much larger talent pool to tackle some really big problems, by leveraging big data, building marketplaces and creating serious technological innovation. However, much of this talent is now trapped in a lot of adtech companies that will neither change the world nor deliver much of a return to this engineering talent. I think these engineers, the country and the innovation economy would be better served if we recycled these great engineers into other endeavours.