Amir Shinar
Amir Shinar · Economics & Business
Waze Co-founder
2006
Israel
Amir Shinar is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Waze Co-founder
Amir Shinar is an Israeli engineer who in 2007 co-founded Waze with Ehud Shabtai and Uri Levine, serving as VP of R&D and helping build the community-driven, crowd-sourced navigation app that Google acquired for about US$1.3 billion in 2013. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200, he is part of Israel's high-tech ecosystem; public sources describe him as an Israeli engineer but do not detail his personal religious identity.
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Waze Co-founder
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