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B.V. Glants was born in Soviet Ukraine and immigrated with his family to suburban New Jersey when he was ten years old. Raised on family stories ranging from his grandparents’ fight for survival in WW2 to his parents’ confrontations with Soviet antisemitism, he now lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and daughter.

B.V. Glants is a lay leader at a Jewish day school, a Wexner Heritage Program member, and a technology entrepreneur, most recently having cofounded Tonic Health (sold to R1, NASDAQ:RCM) and Turnkey Labs. That hasn’t stopped him from earning an MFA at California College of the Arts and attending writers’ conferences at Squaw and Sewanee. He writes historical fiction from a Jewish perspective, focusing on how major historical even ...more

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Entrepreneurial Wisdom from the Torah: the time-tested path to entrepreneurial success

In our current society, we’ve been taught to ask: what’s in it for me?

This is a question that is often asked of religion and religious texts, after which, without much thought or study, religion and its sacred texts are dismissed as irrelevant to modern life. Because there seems to be nothing in it for me.

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