(Forbes) Richard Behar - A unique outfit called Webydo (based in Tel Aviv, and with an office in New Jersey) is enabling professional graphic designers to create websites cheaper and faster. Founders Shmulik Grizim and Tzvika Steinmetz sought to build a powerful code-generator that could convert any graphic design into a functioning website that's also fairly easy to update and manage by the designers themselves - or their clients. In 2012, they released the first version of their new technology. It was an instant hit. Today, 10,000 designers (mainly the U.S.) have created more than 60,000 websites using this online software. Webydo's first investor is an Israeli-Arab, Hisham Adnan Raya, who made a small fortune building homes in Israel's north. His accountant suggested he diversify some of his profits and introduced him to the men behind Webydo. The three men have since become close friends, taking holidays together and hanging out in Raya's lavish home in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He says that Israeli-Arab politics simply doesn't interest him. "In general," he says, "if people are intelligent and hardworking, they tend to get along." "At the end of the day, if you want to make money, you have to work with Jews, and with everybody."
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