Lacework
company on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 16 times in 9 episodes since 2021
20VC 8 
BG2 Pod 5 
All-In 2 
Top Founders 1
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Degnan: Lacework Had World-Class Sales Team But Crap Product
“I mean, like the Lacework sales team was a world-class sales team, just a crap product.”
Gerstner: Altimeter Lost Money Investing in Cloud Security Startup Lacework
“Altimeter was an investor
with Sutter Hill in a company called Lacework.
Right.
Right.
And it was competing in a very, very similar space.
This was the thesis of Lacework.
Lacework raised a lot of money, too much money, I would argue, you know, at the ti…”
Gerstner: Altimeter pushed to sell Lacework despite having hundreds of millions remaining
“We had a company that wasn't performing at the levels that you know, it previously had been. It had been priced at many billions of dollars in, you know, at the peak of Zurb in 20, 21, a company called Lacework. And we ultimately, you know, we pushed to sell t…”
Casado: a16z has no investments in cloud security posture management
“We don't even have a bet in cloud security posture management, right? Like the laceworks and the orcas and the whizzes, right?”