Transcript
Meyer Ezra (0:00)
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Interviewer (0:08)
We are listening to another episode of the Vault, Unlocked. And today, all the way from South Africa we have Mira ezra who at 32 years old sold a hundred million dollar company today it would be worth in the billions. Currently he has 24 businesses all across the. All across the country, all across the world. From software to marketing, all the way up to even business lending and financing for crypto Bros. It is a pleasure. I cannot wait to get to the the core secret, the code of what Unlocked is all about of how you got to this success. But before we do, all the way from South Africa. Welcome to the show, Ezra. How are you feeling today?
Meyer Ezra (1:01)
Amazing and thank you. Very happy to be with you and cannot wait to chat with you.
Interviewer (1:06)
I can't wait to dive into this. But before we do, for the viewers that don't know who Ezra is and what your story is, tell us a little bit like who you are, where you come from and how do you sell a company at 32 for $100 million.
Meyer Ezra (1:23)
Okay. So my story start in a very, very, very small town on the border in Israel. Between Israel and Lebanon.
Interviewer (1:32)
Yeah.
Meyer Ezra (1:33)
Where we used to have every night 60 to 100 missiles for years. So from the age of zero, I was conditioned to confront anything. So I very, very early in my life I realized that I need to look at life as. You have to win and lose with the same level of enthusiasm. You have to be able to win and lose with the same level of enthusiasm. Nothing phase me. Everything is nice. If I win, beautiful. If I lose, beautiful. It's me that create it. I have no one to. I'm not going to blame anyone. Unless if I want to insult myself. Like if, if you want to insult me, tell me that you did something against me. Like, am I so weak?
Interviewer (2:22)
Yeah.
Meyer Ezra (2:23)
So the viewpoint was like that at the age of three, I woke up one day and the radio did not work. And I opened the back of the radio, took out a vacuum tube, went to my father, woke him up, it was Saturday. And I told him, dad, you need to replace this vacuum tube. Now this is what this family tells as a story. I don't really remember it, but it's story that goes in the family for years. And my dad said, how do you know that this is the vacuum tube? And I said, how do you know your name? When you know, you know. And since this time I just knew electronics. I just knew electronics, okay. Like I just knew. Just like I read the book, I never read the book, I couldn't read, but I knew electronics. So I Started to fix the neighbors radios, later on TVs, build amplifiers, DA da da da da. And going fast forward, after I was in the Israeli navy, I was in a diver. And after six years in the army, I went to the Far East. Someone told me after a year in the Far east spending $6 per day, the money finished. And I was looking what should I do? What should I do? And someone told me, you know, in South Africa, there's a guy that want that looking for a programmer. Looking for a programmer, not a problem. I'm not a programmer. But I thought it's not a problem to learn how to program. At that time, computers just started. I never saw a computer in my life. Yes, a PC. So I called this guy and he said, can you program? And says, of course. And he said, okay, fine, come, I'll give you a job. And I was trying to save $6,000 to go back to the Far east for another year. I got to South Africa, learn how to program. I bought a book, learned how to program from the book, arrived to South Africa, created this program and realized that programming is quite boring and stupid. So I created a program that write programs and I was selling it and it started to be, you can say viral, but it was on disk. Disk has been going between people and people started to use it and call me for support. And one day, two guys with suit come to my small room that I could hardly fit in. And I was sure that from the irs, like the South African irs issue any invoices? Nothing. Everything was black, like everything was cash. And they came to me and they say, started to talk to me and I was like, oh my God. Within few like an hour I realized they're not from the irs. They actually came from a very, very big company in South Africa and they purchased that company. They purchased it for $100,000. At that time I thought that I'm a billionaire. Yeah, the hundred thousand dollars I needed to stay for another three months to work with them. But. But three months later I went to the Far east and I saw now when you have a hundred thousand dollars, it's not like $6,000.