Founders, Drinks, and Cyber
Throughout my 25 year career I have had a deep passion for innovation, and for the movers and shakers that took big risks to help make it all happen. This has materialized even more profoundly over the last year with our establishment of Lockstep, and it has been such a joy to see so much of this come together this year at #blackhat2024. As a long time early adopter, investor, advisor and friend to the startup community, I fly home thankful for all of the renewed passion and energy this community has lit in me.
I want to thank all of the folks that joined us at our inaugural #LockedIn event that Rinki Sethi and I hosted. We had an incredible evening at the Cosmo that brought 200 practitioners and founders (and a few sneaky sales folks, I know who you are and #gotmyeyeonyou) together for great drink and even better company. We followed this up with a #rockin #Karaoke night at Kamu. Thank you for making this night EPIC.
Thanks to all of the #cybersecurity leaders that joined us- was fantastic seeing you! And of course we want to thank the amazing founders that came to hang out and throw back some drinks:
Amiram Shachar @ Upwind Security
Yotam Segev @ Cyera
Merav Bahat @ Dazz
Nathan Sportsman @ Praetorian
Guy Flechter @ Sola Security
Alastair Paterson @ Harmonic Security
Nicole Jiang & Sanny Liao @ Fable Security
Vikram Jayanthi & Shankar Krishnan @ PromptArmor (YC W24)
Jai Dargan & Shankar Chelliah @ Hydden
Bill Gambardella & Kyle McCullough @ OpsHelm, Inc.
Oz Wasserman & James Pham @ Opsin
Geng Sng & Vineet Edupuganti @ Cogent
Cooper Edmunds & Adithya Vellal @ Petra Security (YC W24)
Murali Basavaiah @ Andromeda Security
We also want to thank the legendary David O. Sacks and your amazing team: Michael Robinson, Sarah Blanchard (formerly Buckley-Green), William Harmer, CISSP, CISM, CIPP at Craft Ventures for your hospitality, and helping us to kick off Black Hat #instyle. Was an absolute blast, and we look forward to working more closely with the Craft Ventures team in the near future.
Thanks to our team for all of your support through the chaos (Christa Burger, Chris Honaker, Matt Goodrich, Guang Wang, Luna Wu, Steve Januario, Kiki Wang, Casey Essary, Gourav Nagar), and (most importantly!), thank you Christine Valenzuela and Katelyn Ruby for helping to pull all this together at the LAST MINUTE —you—are— #amazing!!
I know I’m missing so many folks, so please forgive me. Just know that we had an absolute killer time with all of you, and can’t wait to do it all over with you again soon. Safe travels and #staycool.
