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Naomi Darom

In the spring of 2001, Eyal Gever was the 30-year-old CEO of a successful startup called Gizmoz, whose estimated worth was $170 million. Three of the biggest companies in the Internet field at the time − America Online (which had just merged with Time Warner), Vivendi and Bertelsmann – were interested in buying it. He was living in New York with his wife, Sharon, and their 18-month-old daughter, and...