After several days of heated debate over Shi-Lee Schindler’s film “The New Rich,” Liad Agmon, Schindler’s husband and founder of Dynamic Yield, which was sold to McDonald’s for $ 300 million, decided to respond to the harsh criticism leveled at Schindler and her film.
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In a long thread on Twitter, Agmon, whose acquisition of McDonald’s start-up in 2019, detailed how his pursuits changed Schindler’s life from end to end, including their family moving to New York and then Schindler’s and their children returning to Israel so she could preserve her professional channels and not Give up a career.
To disconnect for several years from everything she loves and is important to her in Israel: her work, her family and her friends. She had a hard time in New York, and she did a very brave deed: she decided to return to the country with the children, because without her doing she would not live. And that I will find a way to deal with my career.
– Liad Agmon (@liadagmon) April 28, 2022
Agmon added that when a company exits, it raises many questions about the role of the founders’ spouses, the lives of those involved in the exit, and how “big money” changes people’s status. Agmon wrote in the thread that Schindler came out following all the questions that arose in making the film, but he vehemently opposed it. Agmon was of the opinion that in the current economic situation, in which there are too many gaps between the layers of Israeli society, there is no room to discuss the question of the money coming from exit. He thought that her problems would be perceived as detached from the Israeli economic climate in the face of the high cost of living.
But not satisfied with her new condition.
Her problems are perceived as detached from the daily difficulties and her diminution and grinning of her and her problems are almost a reflex. She walked with complete naivety into the lions’ den of social disparities and the struggle for economic survival of many.– Liad Agmon (@liadagmon) April 28, 2022
However, Agmon notes that the criticism leveled at his wife and her film underscores the importance of the content she has created. He laments against the stereotypical portrayal of wealthy women as characters in the series “Rich”, while wealthy men are portrayed as “sharks”. He added that he prefers to see a work of a different kind, also imperfect and that he supports his wife and her work, and the sides of the exit she is trying to present.
I’m Team Shaily and hope you are too.
– Liad Agmon (@liadagmon) April 28, 2022
He summed up his remarks in “I am Team Shaily.”