Security

topic on 10 shows · 22 statements across 20 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast More or Less the Neon Show A Product Market Fit Show Capital Allocators Top Founders the MAD Podcast the a16z Podcast All-In 20VC

22 statements about Security, every show

NEON SHOW Opinion
Gupta: Security is the only hindrance holding AI back from 10x scale
“So there's only one hindrance in today's world for AI is security. If there was not a security concern, security would be AI would be 10 X.”
Nikhil Gupta Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 39:03 The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
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Sam Lessin: The 'move fast' AI crowd will beat security-focused competitors
“I think the as fast as possible crowd will generally win because they'll be able to get more cool stuff done faster, but it will create a huge security. It's a huge problem.”
Sam Lessin Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 12:32 OpenAI's $852 Billion Valuation Makes Zero Sense (ClawCon Tokyo, Anthropic's Leak, Goodbye Internet)
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Sam Lessin: Huge AI premiums will be charged for security and privacy
“I think all the money is not gonna be made on who can run the most tokens fastest or build the coolest shit, because everyone will go infinitely fast on that. You'll be able to charge an enormous premium for security and privacy, but the problem is, is like, t…”
Sam Lessin Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 13:00 OpenAI's $852 Billion Valuation Makes Zero Sense (ClawCon Tokyo, Anthropic's Leak, Goodbye Internet)
French-Owen: OpenAI takes sandboxing and security more seriously than competitors
“The sandboxing, it's such an interesting question because I think OpenAI actually takes the like sandboxing and security question more seriously than almost anyone else.”
Calvin French-Owen Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 43:55 We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
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Kurtz: Trump administration takes platform-focused, business-first cybersecurity approach
“When you think about what the administration is doing with security, they're taking a business first approach. You know what that means? They want to save money. They want to consolidate. They want platforms. They want better outcomes. Right. And they don't wa…”
George Kurtz Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 1:17:19 The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
Pennarun: 90% of deploying internal tools is connectivity and security, not building
“And if you're deploying a dashboard, people who have done this at a company, they know that like, 90% of the work is somehow those two things. And then the remaining 10% is actually making the dashboard.”
Avery Pennarun Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 11:43 How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale · PMF Show
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Pomel: Within five years, security will inevitably attach to observability
“We have a thesis that security, like, five years from now will be will be, or rather, let me rephrase it will be a no-brainer that you have to attach your security to your observability, because that is what gets deployed everywhere in your application, in you…”
Olivier Pomel Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 15:18 AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
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Pomel: Cybersecurity software will consolidate into large platforms
“We think that it's too complex. Like, it's impossible for the customers to actually understand how to piece that together, and to integrate everything into a consistent whole that really protects them, and so we think that security is going to go through the s…”
Olivier Pomel Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 18:39 AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
Payne: Security M&A targets are not cheap because startups still hold cash
“It's interesting that the budgets are down to five percent growth, but we haven't seen valuations The valuation expectations for a lot of companies are still pretty high because people raised money during difficult times. I mean, during good times. And so they…”
Joe Payne Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 18:55 He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?
MAD Insight
Taylor: Security machine learning must hyper-focus on outliers instead of discarding them
“There's a tenant of machine learning where like you just throw out the outliers because they're going to mess up your distribution and you kind of don't want to deal with them. For security, what you do is you find the outliers and you hyper focus on them beca…”
Carly Taylor Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 7:49 From Xbox to Databricks: Carly Taylor’s Rebel Path in Data Science & Gaming AI
20VC Insight
Podjarny: Cybersecurity products are inherently closer to revenue than generic developer tools
“My sense was in security, it's not nothing is ever easy, but generally speaking, it's closer to money.”
Guy Podjarny May 24, 2023 ▶ 29:31 Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Opinion
Armstrong: Fundraising tokens are securities, but decentralized utility tokens are not
“If people want to issue a token that's raising money for a company, let's regulate it as a security. If they want to issue a token that's truly on a decentralized protocol, or has some other purpose like voting in a DAO or rewards or something like that, then …”
Brian Armstrong Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 43:11 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Assets not clearly defined as securities default to CFTC commodity oversight
“If you look up the definition of commodity in the Coney Exchange Act, there's pretty much everything. Like if it's not a security, it's a commodity. So it naturally sort of fell to us because it wasn't clearly defined as a security.”
Rostin Behnam Feb 22, 2021 ▶ 27:53 Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam – CFTC Regulatory Perspectives on Crypto and Climate (Capital Allocators, EP.178)
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Mónica: Crypto research is making the internet a safer place
“Crypto is ushering a new era of research in distributed systems, in security, and in cryptography. And all of these technology advances are actually making its way towards the internet into a safer internet.”
Diogo Mónica Jan 30, 2020 ▶ 0:49 Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
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Weisman: Tokens on fully decentralized networks are likely not securities
“If you have a token that's operating on a fully decentralized network, that's probably clearly not. A security.”
Robin Weisman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:16 a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
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Ehrensvärd: Strong security historically came at the expense of privacy
“Historically, security and privacy has not been a good fit. You know, good security has always come with not so great privacy.”
Stina Ehrensvärd Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:31 a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
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De La Garza: Security will become a feature rather than a standalone product
“And so I think as business models evolve, as we make this transition to the cloud, as blockchain becomes more widely deployed, security starts to become more of a feature and less of a product. And I think we start thinking less about kind of the specific tech…”
Joel De La Garza Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:26 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
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Dixon: Profit-sharing ICO tokens are textbook securities
“If the token gets dividends in proportion to the company's profits, that's almost textbook security, right? And so that's also something that, that should be done in the traditional way.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:20 a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Susskind: Quantum teleportation provides security impossible with classical protocols
“It gives you absolute, 100% security that no classical non-quantum mechanical protocol could ever give you. But it can't be done faster.”
Leonard Susskind Dec 6, 2018 ▶ 57:35 Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator
Sparks: Reinventing security mechanisms is the worst mistake developers can make
“I think there's a good trend of people just not reinventing the wheel for security. Reinventing the wheel is pretty much the worst thing you can do. I mean, every time we see, you know, a big hack, it's because of somebody did something where they're like, oh,…”
Tom Sparks Jan 5, 2018 ▶ 15:15 Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
20VC Insight
Flomenberg: Google will compete with ad-data startups but unlikely cybersecurity ones
“If you want to use some Google-like or Google-specific dataset for an advertising product, it's a really uncomfortable situation because at any point in time, Google may very well decide to build that same product. Now, for instance, in security, could Google …”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 15:41 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Revenue-Sharing Crypto Tokens Must Be Classified As Securities, Salovaara Warns
“It has to be one of these five, otherwise you would, you can say that, like, you know, you cannot do revenue sharing tokens, because that's security.”
Ransu Salovaara Oct 2, 2017 ▶ 8:23 800: Crypto: He's Advisor Behind Worlds Top ICO's

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