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Shimon Elkabetz

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“Yeah, and we've been doing pretty well. I can talk about it for hours. If you want to do another show about Haifa, call me.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you just look at right now, people will say Holland, who plays for Manned City. Yeah, right. But I'm a messy guy all the way.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then, the impact that you can create today is huge. If you do it at scale with a modern technology, with a modern software, then you can actually mitigate the impact of climate change by a lot.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And by the way, even if we're successful, which I really, really hope we will be in decarbonization, we'll see the impact in 50 years. But in this hurricane season, we're already getting hit harder and harder. The impact of climate adaptation and adjusting to this new reality is about things we can do today that will generate impact today. We need to address it because we're going to face different problems that we didn't even think about. Not just wildfires and hurricanes. We're talking about hunger, food crisis. As a result of this crazy weather regime that we're seeing globally. Now, if you can give a farmer in Kenya, if you can give them the right information and insight in the right time about when to harvest, when to irrigate, so they can improve their livelihood.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With a big focus on Africa, actually, we got amazing partners that support us. The biggest one is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that support our nonprofit. And I believe that over the next year, you're going to hear about more and more projects that create high impact in places where people cannot afford it. In COP27, which is happening in Shara Mashik in Egypt in November, we're going to discuss some of these initiatives.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, you can go and download our app today and get an API key and use our product for free today. Anyone can do that. Once you start using it for commercial purposes, this is where there are subscription plans. But the average individual that has a need can use it anywhere today already and through our nonprofit tomorrow now.org. We're hoping to bring support again because we are a for-profit business. We can't invest too many resources in things that do not derive income for us. But our nonprofit was created by us in order to identify places where customers cannot afford the solution, but the need is huge. And it started.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Investors usually look for the highest return in the shortest amount of time. They look for templates and they look to check all the boxes of things that worked well. And if they go outside of these boxes, then they're taking another risk. So it's not that the investors do not believe in the problem or that they do not think that what we're doing is valuable. But most investors, unfortunately, don't have the ability to take these huge risks because we could have failed a hundred times throughout the way. It takes a significant level of execution.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. The market exists, however, to build a solution that can actually address this market need. We're talking about deep technology. Just look at what tomorrow is doing. And it's expensive. It's expensive and it takes time. Look at what we're doing. You know, we have one R&D group building satellite constellation. Another R&D group is building weather models from the ground up. And the third R&D group is just building an amazing modern SaaS software solution. These are like three different companies in one.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People started to realize that those big threats that we're all worried about and saw in the movies. It can actually happen, and I think now we're starting to see people taking this much more seriously. It wasn't like that in 2016 when we started.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We are definitely falling in the second bucket of adjusting to this new reality by having more accurate forecast of these events and providing the solution that helps you make those decisions at scale. But I think there are so many opportunities for innovators to come up with solutions that will move the needle. I will say that. It wasn't easy to raise money for such a business. It was actually pretty painful. And for me, it was, I don't want to say insulting or offensive, but it was pretty sad to see, you know, dog walking apps raising. $300 million when you present a business idea to investors saying, hey, I'm going to improve weather forecasting dramatically in the world. It's going to cost $100 million. And they're like, but it's not software only. Or climate change is not yet here. I think when COVID started,”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think the world has to wake up and start thinking about climate technology and investors and entrepreneurs should start investing their money and time in going after climate-related solutions. Climate related solutions can focus on either climate mitigation, which is how do we get to net zero and prevent the trend from accelerating and getting worse and trying to prevent that from happening. The other piece is climate adaptation, which is, you know, the train has left the station. It's already getting warmer and warmer, crazier and crazier. How do we adapt to that?”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Immediately, we're doing everything in our power to make sure that the entire data pipeline, the modeling capability to ingest it is ready to go. We actually work with several labs at NOAA to start working on the ability to consume this data for their own operational product We don't want to be in a situation where there's a satellite in space and the data is not used.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I have a great team of really, really talented people that are so much smarter than me. They're going to be nervous, but what can I do? I have no control over it. So I'm just going to enjoy the show and hopefully it will work out well.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it has to fit the size and the skills and the capabilities of our specific payload and mission. So it's not a walk in the park, but it's just not where we need to invest our resources. Other people did it better than us. And five years ago, we couldn't have done it. So I think also the timing for what we're doing is perfect from that perspective.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So without getting too much into the details, we obviously have vendors that support us in building the satellites, but we definitely. Own the IP, we design the payload, we design the entire mission, and we use contractors to help us in doing things that we don't want to do. For example, the bus, the shield of the satellite itself, there's nothing innovative about it. It's more of a... It's just a...”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe so. Yes, today you can do it pretty well in the US, let's say for the next 60 minutes. We're actually working on getting it better and better, I believe. We got it better than other players who use the existing radars of the government. This is a pretty simple modeling versus the next day or two, which we're focused on as well. But I believe that with the kind of constellation that we're putting in space and the kind of products we're working on, this capability will be available globally, not even in a decade, in let's say three to four years max.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, serve the underserves. And of course, help in the developed world where extreme weather events are going to be much more challenging. And trust me, 60 minutes precipitation using the same radars that the government is providing to everyone. This is not what's going to move the needle on climate related challenges. And that's what we're trying to focus on.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They don't run models from the ground up. They don't create sensing technology that dramatically and fundamentally improves weather forecasting accuracy. And by the way, the opportunity that we saw when we started the company was, you know, if people already do that, it's not interesting. But if everybody's just repackaging the forecast of the government and we have the opportunity to be the leading company of privatizing this, then we should be there.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So once you have better coverage of the Pacific, the entire West Coast forecast accuracy will get better. For our customers, the insights and the forecast improvement will be seamlessly updated because we already run the models. The models already feed the software. The only thing we're going to do is to feed the models with additional data sets that will come from space as it becomes live. So, this is what we should expect. And of course, yes, we're very much focused on enterprise and government customers, but we actually do have a consumer app. So those who use our app will benefit from it. Our app is not very popular because we're fighting huge brands and don't necessarily have a technology. They mostly repackage the government forecast.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so the answer is depending on where in the world. In most of the world, it's going to create a binary improvement. What do I mean by that? You go south of the border to Mexico. Believe it or not, it's pretty challenging to understand what's happening in real time. If it's raining or not, in Mexico City is an example, all the way to Argentina. Same for Africa, India, and large portions of Asia. And of course, over the oceans as you sail. So we're talking about binary improvement in real time, not even forecasting. In the US, of course, extreme weather events, the forecast for hurricanes will be much better talking about Santa Ana winds and the wildfire. So these winds, where do they come from? They come usually from the Pacific and the Pacific is not monitored.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think it was the right call. We made that call early in 2022. If we did it in 2021, we would probably be able to raise that money, which is really why we wanted to go after it, the significant amount of cash would have enabled us to go after the full business plan, but the macro changed and I think we were looking very clearly into the future and understood that it's just the beginning. And unfortunately, we were right. The cycle is going to be pretty long. So it was a good call for the company eventually.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can finance most of it, yeah. At this point in time, given the technology, maturity and the timeline, I don't think that funding will be an issue. But we live in a crazy world. I didn't imagine starting a company that I will have to deal with so many macro situations from managing a business that sold mostly to airlines and sports leagues entering a pandemic all the way to the inflation and the market crash and canceling an IPO and whatever. It's definitely what keeps me up at night as a CEO. How do you keep running the business and not running out of money, but we're pretty well funded.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the cost changes from one satellite to the other depending on the two type of sensors I just mentioned. It also goes down over time. The first ones are a bit more expensive. But when we look at the entire constellation cost end-to-end, including the launches, we're looking at roughly $100 million.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we're launching about 30 satellites starting Q1 of 2023. The launches will take throughout 2024 as well. And we're launching, it's actually a constellation of two type of sensors. One is active radars. The second type of sensor is a microwave sounder. And both of them should be very, very complementary to each other and together create real-time picture of the atmosphere precipitation, help us drive short-term prediction on a minute-by-minute basis in different locations in the world, and improve the forecast in the next day, two, three.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But these radars are designed to describe the ground very accurately and ignore the atmosphere. Our radars are supposed to do the opposite. They're supposed to ignore the ground and basically describe very accurately the entire atmosphere.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, yes, and most of this data is available for us, but this data is not necessarily valuable. Just being in space with a satellite is not very useful. Yeah, what is the sensor that you have on that satellite? and none of them has a radar that is designed to describe the atmosphere. We have imagery satellites. We have infrared satellites that are blocked by the top of the clouds, for example, so they don't see through. And we also have SAR satellites that are actually equipped with radars.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not possible to do it in the cost that you're looking for. And in the size and in the timeline that you're aiming for.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we went to partners from government agencies to big defense companies and space companies to startups. And we asked companies, hey, this is the spec we're looking for because we want to cover the world with active radars. Can you build it? And everybody said, no, it's not possible.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think about all the derivatives of it, all the insurance and reinsurance companies behind it, and FEMA. And I can go on and on. And as I said, you're talking about the US, where the situation is relatively good from a technology perspective. Let's try to think about the problem globally. It's worse, way, way worse elsewhere. So how do you solve it? Obviously, from the ground up, it's impossible. You can't deploy a radar over the ocean geopolitically it's very difficult to do that in other countries. And also it is very expensive to do it from the ground up. So we said, you know, we have to start looking if we can do it from space. And at the beginning, we didn't want to do it alone. You know, we're a software company. We raised money from investors to build the software business.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, without getting into specifically Hurricane Ian, because it's arguable whether it was accurate enough for the decision makers to... Evacuate on time or not. I think it is pretty agreed upon the scientific community that if we had good monitoring of hurricanes as they evolve all the way to hitting the mainland. With radars, then the forecast accuracy, meaning the output of the models, would have been much more reliable. We would have known the track with more confidence. So it may sound, hey, it's good enough. We knew approximately where is it going. But when the National Hurricane Center needs to provide a track and decision makers have to decide whether to evacuate a city, even 5% improvement is a lot.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's a big, big, big problem. That lack of sensor coverage and specifically radar creates significant issues with weather forecasting and climate resiliency. And that's the problem, the biggest problem we're going after today. And it's part of the entire problem of how do we help customers manage their challenges.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I can go on and on on the consequences of what's happening when you don't have a radar coverage. Now, beyond that, the oceans do not have radar coverage. So every time a really important weather phenomena like tropical storm, like hurricane or cyclone or typhoon is evolving, we don't really have a good grasp of it. So in the US, for example, we fly airplanes. The government flies airplanes over the eye of the storm with a radar, scan it and send it back to the model so we can understand if it's going to be category one, two or three and whether we need to evacuate Miami or Tampa. Obviously, it's not as efficient as we want it to be. We want to monitor the hurricane from the inception 24-7 in real time. And rest assured, by the way, nobody's flying anything over Typhoon or Cyclone in the east.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Accuracy. We all see weather radars daily on TV, on our apps. Radars help us understand where it's raining in real time, how the atmosphere looks like, the clouds formation, and whatnot. And what we learned is that over 5 billion people live outside of radar coverage.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I would say the following to help customers make better decisions, you need to give them reliable insights. And to give reliable insights, you have to have reliable and accurate forecast behind it. And I think that over the last few years, what we learned that we're pretty much limited in terms of how much further we can improve the forecast accuracy by the inputs to the models. Because again, as you mentioned, you don't have good enough coverage over the oceans. You don't have many sensors in Latin America, in Africa, in India, in many places in the world. And I would say that the most important, not just me saying that actually, most of the agencies actually believe that the most important censor to drive real-time and forecast.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Generally have the problem of how to make decisions at scale. And if you just give them raw data, even if it's a forecast, it's not enough. So we moved into weather intelligence software that gives business recommendations. Today, I must say, we're going to space to improve observations because the weather of things approaches super cool, super geeky, but it's limited to be completely honest. You don't have devices over the ocean. You don't have access to devices in every country and on and on and on.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Temperature sensor on the car. What's the temperature externally? All the way to extracting signals from cellular towers and understanding if it's raining in a specific location. But very fast, we realized that, okay, if we just work on a technology that helps us describe what's happening in real time, it doesn't help the customer. The customer needs to understand what's going to happen. So we moved into models. And then when we gave customers more accurate forecast, we understood that customers”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when we started, obviously we couldn't trace a lot of money when we pitched to investors, they were like, okay, climate change, why would I even bother talking about it? It takes much more than a software to solve it. So we looked for cost-effective ways to improve the observation piece, the sensing. And we came up with an approach that we call weather of things, which is like the Internet of Things, as you said. The idea is that you can tap into all kinds of devices and generate valuable weather information from them. Like IoT devices or”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And do it better in order to solve not only public safety, but also business problems. Now, we were pretty naive at the beginning because we didn't understand, to be completely honest, how difficult it's going to be to go after it. So we didn't start with everything from the beginning, you know, with the observations and the modeling and the computing power all the way to the software that gives you recommendations for action. We started somewhere. But I think what really helped us was to understand that we want to fall in love with a problem and not with a specific solution. And the problem was, how do we help countries and businesses better manage their weather and climate related challenges as the climate in the world and the weather in the world becomes crazier?”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Now, what we learned When we started to explore why the weather forecast is not as accurate as we wanted it to be, why is it not as good in the entire world like it is in the US? We learned that the technology of forecasting weather is led and done by government agencies. And we were shocked by that because as folks who came from the military, we almost couldn't find examples for technologies that were actually created by government agencies. Even in space, you know, NASA started to work more and more with SpaceX and other companies in the last few years. And imagine you had to rely on a government agency to develop COVID-19 vaccine where we would have been at this point. So we understood that we can do it in-house in a proprietary way, in a way that will help us innovate faster, develop faster.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when you think of whether it forecast accuracy, let's first understand how weather forecast is generated. You basically need three components. The first is observations, like weather stations, radars, satellites. They help you understand what's happening in the atmosphere in real time. Whether it's raining here or what's happening now. The second thing you need is a model, a set of equations, into which you assimilate the observations. You take the inputs, what's happening in real time, you plug it into a model, and then the third thing you need is a computing power to process the model. The output of the model is what we know as weather forecast.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The second thing is to make sure that the recommendation that you get is actually based on an accurate forecast, right? So the technology of forecasting weather really becomes important in order to enable the decision-making process, what we call the weather intelligence.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And any kind of organization has assets. It can be people. It can be constant assets like buildings or infrastructure. And it can be dynamic and moving assets like trucks or ships or aircrafts. And you want to make sure that you can optimize the operational efficiency of your business. While weather becomes more volatile, while it challenges your operations. So I think that what we are trying to do is to make sure that you have the right tool to make the right decisions at the right time. For example, Reroute because that specific area is at risk. So getting the right recommendation in the right time.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So before that, it's not about whether the technology is equipped or not equipped. I would say the following. First of all, when we think of the problem of we're going to have more hurricanes, more heat waves, more typhoons, more wildfires, The question is what do you do about it? I firmly believe, and I'm very excited about decarbonization programs and how do we get to net zero. But even if we're very successful in doing that, the climate has already changed. We break. Not protecting its servers with a software solution. And that's the first thing we realized. We have to build a solution that helps organizations, either businesses or governmental, manage that risk. That solution that we didn't have as military officers.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. So, of course, that once you go outside of it, of the US, I mean, and the West, let's call it. Problem becomes even bigger. So let's start with that. Climate change means that weather is going to become a much bigger problem. And now what do you do about it? So that's one layer of the problem.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, first of all, it's not the case everywhere around the world. But Felt that the kind of accuracy of the weather forecast that I had for my missions wasn't good enough. I also saw that the way I was making decisions, either in the cockpit or outside of it when I was managing operations, I didn't have the right tool to help me make decisions at scale. And we actually realized that climate change is going to make Whether a much more important problem to go after, because whether events simply become More volatile and more frequent any given year in any given geography.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely came later when I was in the military, it was a big problem. I never thought that it's something that I can do something about. I did know that I wanted to start a business. And I was looking for a really big problem. And only later when I moved to Boston and did my MBA at Harvard, this is where I kind of started to research together with my other two friends. This problem that we really care about How big is it? What people have done about it. And only then Made a decision to go after it”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unfortunately I lost colleagues, friends due to weather related accidents and later on when I was starting to manage operationally all kind of complex situations I learned how much weather situations can really be the difference between success and failure. Obviously weather impacts the takeoff process, the mission, the route and of course the lending. So you constantly have to evaluate your situation and the real time and expected weather.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For sure. So, like everyone else in Israel, I joined the military when I was 18. And I joined the Air Force. And after three years, became a pilot. And obviously, as a pilot in the cockpit level, weather is probably the number one variable and the most challenging factor for every training mission, every operational mission. And I was super worried about whether more than malfunction, more than human error, more than even the enemy.”
2022-11-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT