Third Party Vendors

topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes

In Depth the a16z Podcast

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IN DEPTH Insight
Hyper-scale technology companies fundamentally cannot rely on third-party infrastructure vendors
“When you take some layer of your kind of core stack, and it's like outsourced to this vendor, and vendor, you know, could be great, but when I was at these companies that were, you know, Kind of N of one in terms of what they were doing scale wise. They weren'…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 50:21 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
a16z Prediction Held up
Zetter: Third-party vendors will increasingly become conduits for cyberattacks
“And that's something that I think we will see more of. We sort of see you know, victims get hacked, obviously, and their systems are insecure, but a growing problem are the issues with third-party vendors, contractors, other people that you work with that are …”
Kim Zetter Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:59 a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)

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