Compliance

topic on 12 shows · 18 statements across 17 episodes

Acquired Another Podcast Innovators & Investors Cheeky Pint Masters of Scale WTF is with Nikhil Kamath A Product Market Fit Show Capital Allocators Top Founders the MAD Podcast the a16z Podcast Big Technology

18 statements about Compliance, every show

BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Zavery: Compliance accounts for 30% to 40% of ServiceNow's cost structure
“30%, 40% of my cost structure is compliance with different, different regulations.”
Amit Zavery May 8, 2026 ▶ 14:01 Software's Path Forward In The Agentic AI Era — With ServiceNow's Amit Zavery
Cacioppo: Security companies targeting startups should sell compliance instead of security
“One of the original, like, founding hypotheses of the company is if you want to start a security company for startups, you should actually start a compliance company. Because your customers never ask you for Security, but they do ask you for compliance.”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 0:54 Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
Founders must not sell risk-reducing security products to compliance-only buyers
“Never sell security to people that don't care. If you're trying to position a product that's genuinely going to reduce risk, don't try to sell that thing to people that only care about compliance or only care about checking the box.”
Casey Ellis Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 14:11 He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey ... · PMF Show
Evans: Sentiero targets AI investments in under-resourced compliance and HR functions
“So we tend to like the, we call it the jobs not being done. You know, it's the, it's places where they've historically been under-resourced and under-invested. So think about things like compliance and human resources.”
David Evans Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 6:39 Harnessing AI through Seed-Stage Investments: Insights from David Evans of Sentiero Ventures
Cacioppo: Solving disliked, mandatory tasks generates outsized early customer gratitude
“Compliance does sit in this intersection of something you might need to do or really feel like you need to and something you don't want to do. And so one thing I found is like when you offer A service or a product in that intersection, customers tend to be so …”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 18:18 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
Cacioppo: Compliance is a wedge into broader security, not a niche
“Compliance is this, like, great wedge into all of these other security processes in the company, and so it does really feel like, or it's kind of the hard parts of Vanta, it's like, hey, there's so much opportunity, there's so many adjacencies, which do we cho…”
Christina Cacioppo Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 31:05 The early-stage lessons of a $2.45 billion company (Vanta's Christina Cacioppo) | Masters of Scale
WTF Assertion Supported
Modi: Indian government eliminated around 40,000 regulatory compliances
“اس لئے ہم نے کیا کیا قریب چالیس ہزار کمپلائنسز ہم نے نکال دی ہے”
Narendra Modi Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 1:30:08 People with The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi x Nikhil Kamath | Episode 6 | By WTF · Nikhil Kamath
a16z Insight
Strange: LLM hallucination is a feature in consumer apps, but a bug in compliance
“So LLM's hallucinating, and for my consumer colleagues, that's a feature. It comes out with great, great creative, fun and enhancing things in the world of compliance that is definitively a bug.”
Angela Strange Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 4:25 When Regulation Becomes Code
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strange: Tech-enabled compliance will become a competitive advantage in 2023
“I believe that in 2023, doing compliance well, tech enabled is going to become a competitive advantage versus an annoying thing that you have to do in the background.”
Angela Strange Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 10:33 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
ACQUIRED Insight
Bankman-Fried: Startups do not have to choose between compliance and functionality
“I think that in the end, our sort of, our sense of this is like, look, this isn't, it's not like, you know, you can choose to be compliant or you can choose to be functional and like you have to choose which company you're launching. I think, you know, the way…”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:03:39 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Didn’t hold up
Evans: 10% of Google's workforce will work in compliance by late 2025
“I think the only certainty is that when we come back in five years' time, 10% of people who work at Google will work in compliance.”
Benedict Evans Dec 13, 2020 ▶ 36:09 The FTC and Facebook
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strange: One major bank employs 30,000 people exclusively in regulatory compliance
“At one of the large banks, 30,000 of 210,000 employees work only in compliance.”
Angela Strange Jan 21, 2020 ▶ 13:57 Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
a16z Assertion Supported
Strange: Citigroup employs 30,000 compliance workers, 15% of its total workforce
“I think the latest stats for someone like Citi. They have 30,000 people in compliance, like 15% of the workforce.”
Angela Strange Jul 12, 2019 ▶ 28:36 Founding Stories: Synapse
Ariely: HR is the least reputable and most bureaucratic corporate department
“HR, I think, is maybe the worst, least reputable department in almost every company. Maybe compliance is worse, but you know, it's a hierarchy of the company. HR, rather than Being considered the R&D arm of the company is considered a bureaucracy that people d…”
Dan Ariely Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 40:36 Dan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (Capital Allocators, EP.93)
Chawla: Compliance SaaS is ideal for building sticky software products
“And compliance definitely has a lot of importance and value there for agencies. And it's a great area to build a business because you can build a very, very sticky product.”
Anil Chawla Jan 8, 2019 ▶ 4:05 1263 1500 Governement Agencies Pay Him $2400/yr To Archive Social Media
Programmable securities will embed regulatory compliance directly into assets
“We're not doing compliance at the exchange level anymore, we're now doing it at the level of the security, which is actually a fascinating concept, and I think, like, one of the major sort of innovations we're gonna see with programmable securities.”
Stephen McKeon Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 1:03:46 Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
Thomas: Ledger interoperability does not alter individual ledger compliance enforcement
“Interoperability is, is, you know, doesn't affect how your compliance works, right? So the fact that you can interact with other ledgers doesn't change how your particular ledger enforces compliance.”
Stefan Thomas Nov 7, 2017 ▶ 6:02 836: Crypto: $94m Raised to Be Enterprise Blockchain for Global Payments
MAD Assertion Partly supported
JPMorgan Chase and Citi each spend $2B to $4B annually on compliance
“The big ones, like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, et cetera, have 10,000 plus analysts working on this every year. They're spending two to four billion dollars a year on compliance.”
Bradford Cross Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 3:10 AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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