Companies founded by Israelis and valued at $1 billion or over nearly doubled this year.

TechAviv's Yaron Samid recently compiled a list of startups and firms founded in Israel or by Israelis to 'show Israel’s transformation from a 'start-up nation' to a 'scale-up nation.'

How does one go from being an unemployed marketer to a serial entrepreneur and then CEO and founder of three successful startups? That’s the (several) million dollar question we ask Yaron Samid.