Andrew Rubin

CEO & Co-Founder, Illumio · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andrew Rubin is the co-founder and CEO of Illumio, an enterprise cybersecurity company founded in 2013. He previously served as President and CEO of intrusion detection company Cymtec Systems.

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What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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249 words/min while actually speaking · 1.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Andrew Rubin: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,112 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said4 Episodes1

Everything Andrew Rubin said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Rubin: Achieving perfect visibility over all enterprise devices is a fool's errand

“Every CIO's dream would be to really, truly be able to have a perfect picture of everything that can access every application and every piece of data in their environment, no matter where it is or who provided it, but it's, in a sense, it's a fool's mission. N…”

Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:02 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today

Insight

Rubin: Viewing cybersecurity as binary safe versus breached is no longer viable

“I think the aha moment for security, and it's recent, it's measured probably in months or maybe a year or two, is that this concept of being in a binary state of safe or breached is no longer a viable way to look at the world. Because with this much out there,…”

Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today

Insight

Rubin: Enterprise buyers are willing to replace legacy security architectures entirely

“Consistently across the board, customers are saying to us that they're finding that there isn't a natural or easy iterative path from the architecture of the past. What Groves said about having to rethink the problem from first principles, We're actually heari…”

Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:31 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today

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Rubin: Enterprises are pivoting to protect high-value assets over blanket control

“What we're finding is that what customers are doing is they're actually identifying what they consider to be their highest value targets. They're identifying the applications and specifically the data that is the most important asset that they have. They're fi…”

Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:34 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today	Jan 2, 2019	9m

Andrew Rubin

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