Naftali Bennett: The Government Should Be Your First Customer

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Every founder knows government is the slowest customer in the market. Naftali Bennett says it moved at startup speed once, and he was the one running it. Israel's former prime minister was a software founder before he was a politician. His doctrine for AI is two words: constant friction. You cannot forecast ten years out, so you do what a startup does. Ship, touch customers, come back with feedback in short iterations, correct while moving. His evidence that a state can work this way is the pandemic war room he ran as prime minister, on a daily cycle, with decisions going out the same week rather than through four ministries. He wants a national AI war room built the same way, with a direct…