From penniless and unemployed to start-up success with Macrotech (sm) and the Integration of Labor (sm)

It’s been 17 months since our founder — the one who developed the above labor market innovation worth a literal fortune of approximately $ 500 Billion — the one and only Mr. Yehoshua Ya’acov Ben-Abraham (* June 5th, 1942 in MA, USA as Michael O’Donnell) — left this world at age 77 on September 10th, 2019.

2 years prior to that in 2017 he had declared me his “Senior Partner” and we had built a new rapport of understanding after some years of estrangement. In the summer of 2017 I had gone online at the IBM website for submitting proposals to their enterprise — and pitched the Integration of Labor (sm) to them. Their reply was “no thanks”. My conclusion at the time was that the initial development team of about 20 people (some full-time, some part-time, some on-site, some off-site with occasional meetings in-house) would require $ 5 Million on the table for 3 years of focussed work and team building, as well as a serious project here in Jerusalem where we could demonstrate our competence to actually deliver “superior healthcare, education, and government services”.

Our national insurance institute (NIS) had run into a common scenario in the world of government services: the initial contract for 600 Million Shekel, approved by Israel’s Knesset…