On this episode of Invested, Michael sits down with Eran Shir and Zach Greenberger of Nexar.
Eran Shir is the Co-Founder, CPO & Chairman at Nexar. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor. Previously, he served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Aleph, focusing on IoT, big data, cryptocurrencies, and network-driven market disruption. Before that, Eran led Yahoo's global Creative Innovation Center following the acquisition of Dapper, a dynamic advertising startup that he co-founded. He began his career as a physicist specializing in complex systems and networks, later founding the DIMES Internet research project and co-founding the machine learning company Cogniview.
Zach Greenberger is the CEO of Nexar, leading the company’s mission to build AI for the physical world using real-world driving data. Under his leadership, Nexar powers one of the largest connected vehicle networks, generating hundreds of millions of miles of data each month to advance mapping, mobility, and road safety. Prior to Nexar, Zach served as Chief Business Officer at Lyft and held leadership roles at Tesla, focusing on strategic partnerships and new growth initiatives.
Nexar provides a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) network that prevents road collisions and enables autonomous mobility. They do this through a global, connected, and intelligent network of mobile cameras on the road that use data to deliver valuable insights, so Nexar can ultimately build transformative products in vehicle autonomy and safety. Nexar's technology is being used by the public sector, autonomous vehicle makers, OEMs, fleets, and insurance companies.
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KEY TOPICS
00:00 - Intro
02:10 - Uber Is 10 Years Too Late
05:20 - Fancy AV Fleets Were a Mistake
06:03 - Nexar Got Paid to Collect 1.2 Billion Miles of Data
07:39 - Nexar Dominates Waymo in Data Collection
09:19 - Google Burns $50 Per Mile
09:38 - Tesla and Nexar: the Only Market Players
12:48 - 100,000 Uber Drivers Already Use Nexar
16:40 - LLMs Won’t Solve the Real World
19:25 - Synthetic Data is Not Enough
21:55 - Rare Edge Cases Caught on Camera
24:09 - NVIDIA Needed Our Data
33:27 - Inside an “Agentic” Organization
40:51 - We Pay Employees to Use AI
52:44 - Nexar’s World Model Outperforms ADAS
01:05:27 - Leading a Cross-Global Team
RESOURCES
Follow Zach on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-greenberger-a3a3444a/
Follow Eran on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranshir/
Learn more about Nexar: https://www.nexar-ai.com/
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CREDITS
Executive Producer: Erica Marom
Producer: Sofi Levak, Myron Shneider, Dalit Merenfeld
Video and Editing: Nadav Elovic
Music and Creative Direction: Uri Ar
Content and Editorial: Kira Goldring, Jackie Goldberg
Design: Rony Karadi
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