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Michael Fertik
Michael Fertik is Managing Director and Founder of Heroic Ventures and the Executive Chairman and Founder of Reputation.com. He is the CEO and Founder of Modelcode.ai. He has also been the Founder and CEO of b4.ai, WaveShift, Sightglass Vision, among others.
Heroic Ventures is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused almost exclusively on first-money and formation investing. Modelcode.ai is the world’s leader in Code Modernization through Generative AI. Reputation is the world’s leading company in digital reputation and customer experience.
A futurist with more than ten patents, Michael is credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management (ORM) and lauded as the world’s leading cyberthinker in digital privacy and reputation.

IN THE NEWS
A response to Trump’s depiction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Elizabeth Warren’s “little personal agency to go around and destroy people.”
For the first time in his career, Michael is hiring directly in Israel. Video included.
Michael Fertik discusses Trump, Israel, the war in the Middle East, and conditions for investment.
They really are that stupid. We figured you had to see for yourself.
Michael explains “technology, country fit” and why he is finally hiring in Israel.
Michael announces he is finally hiring in Israel. And why.
In this segment, Michael covers Tik Tok, President Trump’s delay in forcing a divestiture, which companies stand to win if Tik Tok is closed, what risks other companies may be taking, and even the cynical instinct many journalists appear to have to condescend to the United States. (N.B. At the top, he briefly misspeaks, intending to say Perplexity is in the throes of proposing to ByteDance a merger / acquisition of TikTok.)
The risk to Google, the strongest and weakest parts of the DOJ’s case, the Problem with Europe, the Problem with Lina Khan, and we’ll always have Paris.
Michael Fertik explains the unexpected most important word for the economy and politics at stake in the 2024 election: “filibuster”.
Michael Fertik explains what the Department of Justice case against Google does — and, more importantly — does not mean.
AI, Nvidia, and the technology swallowing the world.
Trump, Vance, Harris, Biden, and the shifting wind in Silicon Valley.
Live on the morning after spending hours in a bomb shelter in Jerusalem, Fertik gives an interview to the Jerusalem Post about the exciting future of Israeli innovation.
Michael Fertik explains the proposed the European Union’s “anti-Gatekeeper” legislation. And then he criticizes it as evidence of predatory anti-competitive European jealousy of the United States’s economic and innovative prowess. He also calls Tik Tok out for what it is: digital fentanyl.
How political officers at Big Tech control speech.
AI, Apple, Nvidia, and the urgency of the innovation ecosystem.
Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Regulation, Microsoft, and "Silicon Valley ego”.
“This War will Bolster Israel’s Stature as an AI Powerhouse”
Op-Ed by Michael Fertik
Tech guru warns against ‘digital fentanyl’: Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Fertik warns Fox & Friends about Chinese-owned social media, calling it propaganda, saying Congress should ban it.
Heroic Ventures founder Michael Fertik is still writing first check investments to visionary Israeli founders and startups at a remarkable rate
Op-Ed by Michael Fertik in the Jerusalem Post (Print Edition and Online)
“Hamas Supporters Fired — Not Doxxed”
“War should be no barrier to investments, privacy guru says”
Michael Fertik profiled by the Circuit
Michael Fertik talks with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg about Artificial Intelligence and Venture Capital.
An interview with the Editor
Op-Ed by Michael Fertik
“The reset is basically complete”
Michael Fertik on investing in Israeli startups.
Michael Fertik appears on CNBC Squawk Box to discuss Cybersecurity & AI.
Michael Fertik appears on CNBC Squawk Box with Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss the impact of coronavirus on working from home.
Michael Fertik’s novel Hip Set is not only a thrilling detective story but also a literary inquiry into the sacred and the profane—the secular sandwiched between both.
