Zeus

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Falk: Zeus originally targeted Global 2000 companies for $5M-$10M contracts
“And so ended up leaving Amazon, starting this company, Zeus, And, you know, the idea, pretty simple. Number one, we would only go after the global 2000. That was very, very deliberate. Two is we are, we were building very custom software. So the idea was we wa…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 7:14 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
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Falk: Zeus pivoted away from enterprise AI transformations within six months
“And that's that was the key pitch that we started with. And obviously we pivoted away from it about six months later.”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 9:14 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Falk: Scoping large custom enterprise contracts requires only marginally more work than small ones
“It's the amount of work for like a 500 K contract versus a million dollar contract versus a five million dollar contract. It's not proportional. It is like, you know, a little bit more work to get a much larger contract. And so it's just far more optimal to go…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 10:09 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Falk: Enterprise AI services only work at $5M-$10M scale or single-vertical focus
“One is you could keep doing the model, but only go after projects that go up to ten million dollars. I think that's really the only way this actually works or five million dollars, not even at the company level. It has to be the one project that can scale up t…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 23:16 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
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Taggar: Zeus Living software gives property managers 3x to 5x leverage
“There's countless things where we write some code, and something that was a very manual process that a human had to do, we've now given them three X or five X leverage”
Kulveer Taggar May 31, 2019 ▶ 27:19 20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
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De La Garza: Zeus was the first major banking credential malware
“So the first big malware that kind of got deployed to steal banking credentials was Zeus, and then you started to see people spin out of the Zeus program, and you had this kind of fracturing of that market, right?”
Joel De La Garza Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 8:56 a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime

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