Micha Kaufman
@michakaufman
Founder & CEO @ Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR)
Fiverr employees are being courted, hard. Some get five job offers a week. So how do we keep the good ones? Sure, money helps, but someone will always offer a dollar more. The real answer is understanding what actually drives people: impact, autonomy, great leadership, exciting…
מה עוד נותר להגיד? שיחזרו כבר הביתה. ושזה יהיה השלט האחרון שנחליף על הבניין שלנו
A million dollar shot. Met Yael, Eli and Stanislav, Fiverr sellers who’ve each earned well over $1M on the platform. Honestly made me feel insanely proud. Next stop: $5M
My personal rule for knowing it’s time to move on: If you wake up five days in a row with zero hustle in you, that’s it, That’s your sign.
A declaration of war against mass AI-generated content? As I see it, the reason is pretty simple: YouTube recognizes the need for creative, innovative, and original content, and it wants to support creators who put in the effort to make it. They’ve realized that recycled AI-made…
YouTube will only pay creators who use their real voice and produce original content starting July 15, making reused videos, copied content, low-effort uploads, and fully AI-generated videos will be ineligible for monetization
Most builders obsess only over what their product can do. And this is where they go wrong. The best products aren't the ones with the most features or the most advanced tech, they're the ones that make you feel something: curiosity, pride, a sense of control, FOMO, frustration,…
Rookie founder mistake: listening to everyone. The first 20 people I told about Fiverr said it was a stupid idea. Imagine if I had listened. Trust your gut, Not the crowd.
What did I do when a developer pushed a bug to production that cost us $200,000 in 30 minutes? Nothing. My team knows: no one gets fired for making a real, honest mistake. Mistakes are tuition. They're how people and companies get better. Over the years I’ve developed a…
“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call.” This was the words of @michakaufman at @fiverr a couple of weeks ago. Today we discuss: - Which jobs go first and when? - Why time to clone is the most important metric in startups - Why 99%…
These two kids in the photo had no idea what the next decades would bring. They just knew they loved each other. Still true. Even more so today. Happy 30th anniversary, my Iris.
