{"id":41804,"date":"2015-07-21T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=41804"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:12:52","slug":"one-heck-of-a-maaser-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/technology\/one-heck-of-a-maaser-check\/","title":{"rendered":"One Heck of a Ma\u2019aser Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41805\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 271px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Shloma-Baum-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-41804 wp-image-41805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Shloma-Baum-web.jpg\" alt=\"Shloma Baum-web\" width=\"271\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Shloma-Baum-web.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/Shloma-Baum-web-270x224.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Shloma Baum, CEO of FieldOne Systems, at a conference in Atlanta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a $39 million dollar check from Microsoft, fortunate are those to be on the receiving end of Shloma Baum\u2019s<em> ma\u2019aser<\/em> check.<\/p>\n<p>The Satmar Chassid from Kiryas Joel recently sold <em>FieldOne Systems<\/em>, his field services management company, to the industrial giant.<\/p>\n<p>An article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektime.com\/2015\/07\/20\/this-satmar-hassid-just-sold-his-company-to-microsoft-for-39m\/\">Geektime<\/a>, a newsblog dedicated to the fields of science and entrepreneurship, posted an announcement from Microsoft on the recent purchase. Microsoft noted, \u201c<em>FieldOne<\/em> really stands out, providing enterprises with a comprehensive modern field service solution \u2026 including work order, automated scheduling, asset contract, inventory and procurement management, workflow capabilities and mobile collaboration \u2013 this gives companies the ability to do things such as adjusting routing on the fly and delivering service arrival estimate times within a smaller window, which is essential for more personal customer engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>FieldOne Systems<\/em> also impressed Microsoft as part of a growing movement of <em>haredi<\/em> startup entrepreneurs in both Israel and the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltra-Orthodox Jews are underrepresented in the hi-tech community, partially because they do not always receive a rigorous math and science education and in part because the hi-tech world likes to hire people in its own image: young, male, privileged graduates of elite army units in Israel or prestigious colleges in the U.S.,\u201d the article stated. \u201cGiven Baum\u2019s position straddling two worlds, he has had to think a lot about the relationship between a closed ecosystem (a company, religious community) and the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full article from Geektime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektime.com\/2015\/07\/20\/this-satmar-hassid-just-sold-his-company-to-microsoft-for-39m\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With a $39 million dollar check from Microsoft, fortunate are those to be on the receiving end of Shloma Baum\u2019s ma\u2019aser check. 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An article on Geektime, a newsblog dedicated to the fields of science and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":41806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,94,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-news-op-ed","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Heck of a Ma\u2019aser Check - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/technology\/one-heck-of-a-maaser-check\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Heck of a Ma\u2019aser Check - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; With a $39 million dollar check from Microsoft, fortunate are those to be on the receiving end of Shloma Baum\u2019s ma\u2019aser check. 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