Yoav Shalev
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Yoav Shalev

Owns six companies and runs every one of them with zero employees.

Twenty years in performance marketing, now zero ad spend. He rebuilt the operation around AI and has shipped more than twenty products in the last seven months, more than in the previous twenty years combined.

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What he can talk about

Four angles, each with questions you can lift straight into your run sheet.

Solo Operations

Running Six Companies With Zero Employees

Yoav owns six companies and runs every one of them with no employees. The interesting part is not the tooling, it is which decisions he stopped making and which ones he refuses to delegate.

5 questions ready to ask
  • What actually breaks first when you try to run six companies with no staff?
  • Which work do you still do by hand on purpose, and why?
  • How do you decide something is worth building versus worth ignoring?
  • What does your week look like when six companies all want attention?
  • Where does this model fall apart? Who should not try it?
Building With AI

When You Find Yourself Without a Dev Team

After years of employing developers, Yoav stopped two months ago and now builds everything himself. He has shipped more than twenty products in the last seven months, more than in the previous twenty years combined.

5 questions ready to ask
  • You employed developers for years and stopped two months ago. What made you call it?
  • Walk me through the first week on your own. What was the first call you made?
  • You have built more with AI in seven months than in the previous twenty years. What actually changed?
  • Where is AI still genuinely bad at this, in your experience?
  • Would you hire a dev team again today, or is that door closed?
Marketing

Twenty Years in Performance Marketing, Now Zero Ad Spend

Yoav spent two decades in performance marketing, including helping scale a company from twelve people to seventy-five in eighteen months on its way to an IPO. He now grows everything he owns without buying a single ad.

5 questions ready to ask
  • You spent twenty years buying attention. What changed your mind?
  • You helped take a team from twelve people to seventy-five in eighteen months. What broke first?
  • If someone handed you a budget tomorrow, would you spend it? On what?
  • Which channel is the most overrated right now, and which is underrated?
  • How do you grow a product with no ad spend and no audience to start from?
Portfolio Strategy

A Business Portfolio as a Resilience Hedge

Yoav treats his companies the way an investor treats an asset mix, and he runs them from a 22-acre farm in Texas. The portfolio is not about upside, it's about not being wiped out by any single failure.

5 questions ready to ask
  • Most founders are told to focus on one thing. Why are you doing the opposite?
  • How do you know when to kill something in the portfolio?
  • What does living on 22 acres actually change about how you work?
  • How do you handle the accusation that this is just being unfocused?
  • What is the honest downside of the portfolio approach?
Patent
US 11,836,330
Real-time retuning of recorded music
Scale
12 to 75
Grew a team in 18 months, on its way to an IPO
Experience
20 years
Performance marketing
Companies
SYQEL · HZP · LineTale
SponsoredBy · PingBell · one unannounced

Recording logistics

Availability

US Central time

Based in Texas, on Central time (CT). Comfortable recording early for European hosts and late for Pacific ones.

Platforms

Whatever you already use

Riverside StreamYard Zoom SquadCast VDO.Ninja into OBS
Technical setup

What he records with

  • Local backup recording

    Every session is recorded locally on his end, so a connection blip never costs you the audio.

  • Camera and microphone

    Logitech Brio webcam and a Shure microphone. Both a PC and a Mac on hand, so he can run whichever your platform prefers.

  • Starlink connection

    He records from a farm, so it is Starlink rather than fibre. It holds up, and the local backup exists precisely so a drop never costs you the take.

Press kit

Everything your producer needs, no email required.

Headshot

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Short bio

TXT · 54 words

Long bio

TXT · 191 words

One-pager

PDF · 1 page

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