McAfee
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2024 by Dmitri Alperovitch · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Aug 22, 2024 negative
Alperovitch: Legacy Antivirus Firms Were Incapable of Innovation, Prompting CrowdStrike
“I was actually at one of those McAfee and we realized well, at McAfee that these companies were just incapable of innovation. They were born in the 19 eighties you know got very successful, but also stagnated and there was no innovation. They became public com…”
Feb 4, 2026 positive
Mandia: Mandiant originally aimed to build the endpoint software CrowdStrike perfected.
“Believe it or not, Mandiant was actually an endpoint company. I just executed so poorly on that dream. Nobody knows it, you know, but we were building an endpoint to detect what Symantec and McAfee missed... And since that time George Kurtz and CrowdStrike kin…”