The Creator of the App Waze on the Incident that Helped Create a Billion-Dollar Business

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"Selling Waze was a life-changing event for me. But more importantly, it was a life-changing event for everyone at the company," says Uri Levine, one of the creators of the navigation app Waze. In 2013, the startup was sold to Google for more than $1 billion, and about 100 of the company's employees became millionaires after the deal.