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Tomer Attias retweeted
wore my QR code to a startup pitch night tonight.
people actually scanned my back ๐
founders answer one honest question out loud, 2 minutes, no signup. scan it or: foundertape.fm
Tomer Attias retweeted
๐ช๐บ The EU is introducing a โฌ10,000 cash payment limit in 2027.
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland has no such general limit.
Reminds me of an old Swiss joke ๐
A German walks into a Swiss bank and whispers:
โIโd like to withdraw โฌ10,000.โ
The Swiss banker replies loudly:
โSir, no need to whisper. Poverty is nothing to be ashamed of in Switzerland.โ ๐
Tomer Attias retweeted
My sincere condolences to Adam's (@RetentionAdam) family and friends.
He was a massive inspiration for founders, bootstrapers, and for building one of the first autonomous businesses.
You will be missed.
That would be great.
๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ Britain is considering cutting university fees for EU students.
Some pay more than ยฃ30,000 a year, while British students in England pay just over ยฃ9,000, and the proposal would put EU students on the British rate.
In return, Britain wants its businesses let into the EUโs planned โMade in Europeโ programme, which would favour European-made cars, steel and clean energy products.
The government could give universities up to ยฃ450 million a year to cover lost income, though Treasury sources say the final bill could be much lower.
The Russell Group, which represents 24 leading universities, puts the cost above ยฃ500 million.
Nothing is agreed yet, with a UK-EU summit set for November 20.
British graduates still paying off their own loans might have thoughts.
Source: Philenews / Writer: Daniyal
Happy UAE Flag Day ๐ฆ๐ช
A day to celebrate the unity, vision, ambition, and remarkable spirit of the United Arab Emirates.
My admiration goes to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose leadership continues to shape the UAE's journey, carrying forward its legacy of progress, innovation, stability, and ambition.
Wishing the UAE continued prosperity, peace, and success!
Tomer Attias retweeted
๐๏ธ Minimum paid vacation days by law in the world's 20 largest economies
1. ๐ซ๐ท France: 25
2. ๐ง๐ท Brazil: ~22
3. ๐ช๐ธ Spain: ~22
4. ๐ฉ๐ช Germany: 20
5. ๐ฎ๐น Italy: 20
6. ๐ฆ๐บ Australia: 20
7. ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: 20
8. ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland: 20
9. ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom: 20*
10. ๐ท๐บ Russia: ~20
11. ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea: 15
12. ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia: ~15
13. ๐น๐ท Tรผrkiye: 14
14. ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: 12
15. ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia: 12
16. ๐ฎ๐ณ India: ~12
17. ๐ฏ๐ต Japan: 10
18. ๐จ๐ฆ Canada: 10
19. ๐จ๐ณ China: 5
20. ๐บ๐ธ United States: 0
France guarantees workers 25 paid vacation days a year, the most among the world's 20 largest economies.
The United States is the only one with no legal minimum at all. Paid vacation there depends entirely on the employer.
Worldwide, 105 countries guarantee at least 20 paid days off a year. Only seven countries, plus the Vatican, have no legal minimum: the US, Gambia and five Pacific island nations (Palau, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Tonga).
Working days after one year of employment, not counting public holidays. ~ converted from calendar days. *UK: 28 days, which may include the 8 bank holidays. Laws as of January 2026.
Source: WORLD Policy Analysis Center; national labour laws; thatonemap. com
Europe's supermarkets are learning an expensive lesson: Cyber risk is now operational risk.
Hackers have discovered that poorly secured industrial systems can cause millions in physical damage without stealing a single customer record.
Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images
Weekly MENA Business & Economic Brief ๐งต | 26 Oct โ 2 Nov
1/ ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel: Tuesdayโs election left no clear winner. The shekel fell about 2% to ~3.12/$, its worst day in 16 months, and Tel Avivโs TA-125 dropped 2.5% on Wednesday.
2/ ๐ด๐ฒ Oman: 28 investment agreements worth over RO 304M (~$790M) were signed across its economic and free zones. Sultan Haitham also proposed a preferential trade and investment deal to China.
3/ ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt: Egypt signed a $1B World Bank financing deal backing economic reforms. Itโs the second of three loans, and signing isnโt disbursement.
4/ ๐ฆ๐ช UAE: First Abu Dhabi Bankโs Q3 profit rose 6% to AED 5.73B. Dubai also announced Nad Zabeel, a research and AI campus for 30,000+ participants a year.
5/ ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco: Net FDI inflows rose 58.4% to MAD 35.24B in nine months. Rand Merchant Bank now ranks Morocco Africaโs 4th most attractive investment destination.
6/ ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia: Snowflake announced $300M of investment through 2030 and opened its regional HQ in the Kingdom.
7/ ๐ MENA: AI infrastructure keeps spreading, from a planned 45MW AI data campus in Oman to Dubaiโs new AI campus.
Full stories on Substack ๐ abramundi.substack.com
Tomer Attias retweeted
Attacks will accelerate from here on - We are there: Six months ago I said Mythos like capability will be widely available. It's happening. A critical vulnerability, a social engineering attack that looks innocuous, or daisy chaining publicly available vulnerabilities and conducting a sniper strike is all being witnessed in the wild. Incident responders have never been busier.
Some key points:
- attacks are not becoming more sophisticated, it's the same attacks, faster and by a lot more people.
- attack path discovery which took trial and error and multiple attempts is now trivial, open source LLMs are here to help
- you are as secure as your supply chain, insecure down or upstream players who have access to your infrastructure could be the next attack path, marketplaces and supply chain is an easier vector
The increase in activity is a result of more people becoming better at hacking due to the ease of being able to attack. Had not contemplated that in my calculus.
Please:
1. Test your infrastructure for accessible vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
2. Fix your code and demand your vendors do.
3. Old infra, or insecure infra at the perimeter needs to be updated first
4. New AI tools, especially coding need a security framework. Your developers will do more with code, new skills, and more automation. Don't forget the coding models have trained on human code.
Stay safe this Halloween :)
Tomer Attias retweeted
The pitch deck is the only document a startup writes for people who will never use the product.
Tomer Attias retweeted
๐จ UAE AND OPENAI JUST SIGNED 4 MAJOR AI DEALS!
Abu Dhabi is bringing AI into government, energy, and investment.
๐ฅ ADNOC becomes the first energy company in the world to deploy OpenAIโs frontier technology.
The deals also include: โ AI-powered government services โ AI-driven investment analysis with Mubadala โ A 5 year Ai adoption partnership.
Which startups are most likely to get an investment from top tier VCs?
I looked at ~60 attributes across 5000 startups and these were the 15 strongest.
#1 is being from a top tier fund. MBA is a negative signal
Full list of signals below:
I built an AI workflow that forwards every email I get straight to WhatsApp, with the sender, subject and context. I can even reply to it from there. I havenโt missed an email since. It honestly changed my life.































