CloudSEK
company on 1 show · 15 statements across 3 episodes · said 81 times in 45 episodes since 2020
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2026 28 mentions in 26 episodes 1 per episode
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How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy -
The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode -
The AI Moat Everyone is Ignoring | Phalgun Kompalli, Founder UpGrad and Bodhium Labs -
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital -
ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al -
The Billion Dollar AI Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia -
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing -
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al - 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 14 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
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From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC -
3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani -
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC -
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber) -
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain -
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria -
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal -
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion - 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 26 mentions in 1 episode
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15 statements about CloudSEK, every show
CloudSEK mandates that product staff prototype end-to-end to remain employed
“From the idea of prototype end-to-end, making sure it's useful, it should be on you. If you are not able to do that, you should not be part of employment.”
Sasi: CloudSEK proactively removes fake Ola dealership scam pages
“Before it became our customer, and we actually kind of now track these pages down, the minutes I want to register some of these pages, the minutes I want to register some of these phone numbers, we help Ola take these things down proactively so that bad good p…”
Sasi: Learning cybersecurity from books is ineffective without hands-on lab practice
“Cybersecurity isn't a topic you can read and learn from books. That's like the most bullshit way of Learning cybersecurity. It has to be practiced. So for that, you need the lab facility, or you have to look at real world scenarios.”
Sasi: CloudSEK found ATM vendor flaw exposing live footage and cash schedules
“We discovered a simple issue that allowed any ATM in the country to be monitored because the vendor who was managing that ATM had a misconfiguration in one of their audit application, and it was exposed on the internet, which allowed anyone to see the live foo…”
Rahul Sasi: Founders build better companies intending to run them forever
“If you're just building a house, knowing that you would sell it eventually, you're not going to put all your thoughts and efforts into building that house. Rather, you're going to build a house knowing that you're going to live in that house forever. You'll ma…”
Sasi: Startups can risk product features, but not hiring
“You can take the higher risk in terms of a product functionality, but you can't take a high risk in terms of a hiring.”
Sasi: New products never come from customers; innovators design solutions
“Most of the product functionalities or let's say a new product will never come from a customer. Customer will never know what is the exact solution. They will always have a problem. Right? Building the right solution is the innovator's job.”
Sasi: Sales candidates cannot be qualified in interviews; references are essential
“Engineers, you can evaluate him with the code, and then do an apt attitude test, and then, well, you're sorted. But sales folks, you're not, you know, qualifying, you can't qualify them with an interview, which is why good reference is important, right?”
Sasi: Dark web monitoring represents only 15% of CloudSEK's product capability
“One of our product capability is, you know, tell our customers whether anything which is related to them, their digital assets, their infrastructure data, their documents are being sold on the dark web. And that is just what, 15 percentage of our capability.”
Sasi: CloudSEK expects BeVigil to reach 100k total and 10k corporate users
“And we are expecting this to touch a lack users, a hundred K users in total. And we would expect that to have almost 10,000 plus corporate users signed up to the platform.”
Sasi: CloudSEK's BeVigil has scanned 500k apps with 5,000+ corporate users
“When we launched, we had almost 5000 apps, data sets, and almost hundred plus users, right? Every month, that user base and the number of apps which are getting scanned is at a two X rate, right? So today, we have half a million apps scanned, and we have almos…”
CloudSEK uses free BeVigil tool as an acquisition funnel for XVigil
“So the model is, you know, we are obviously trying to make the community use the free version and from the free version, People now pivot to the XVigil, because XVigil, you don't have to, on a daily basis, enter anything, any keywords, but with XVigil, you can…”
Sasi: CloudSEK Grew from $250K to $2M+ ARR Post-Series A
“But once we got our first Series A funding, we went from seven customers to 80 customers, right? Close to 10 X growth in terms of customers that much in terms of we were at two 50 K to two Million plus ARR, right?”