Elie Wurtman, the Israeli golden boy who bets on Arab youth – Jeune Afrique

Everything he touches turns to gold. In any case, that’s how the weekly The Jerusalem Post describes Elie Wurtman, the living embodiment of the Israeli start-up nation. At 12, he earned his pocket money by going door to door selling bread. In 2015, at age 46, he a co-founded one of Jerusalem’s first unicorns (a company valued at over $1 billion, not listed on the stock exchange and not a subsidiary of a large group): PICO Venture Partners, a company of capital risk.