Wiz, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 59Raaz Herzberg 23Jen Abel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wiz comes up
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:18:34 Lenny Rachitsky Basically, there's a quote from the head of growth at Wiz where it's like, why start with zero and you can start with 10,000?
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 27:40 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, there's so much of what you share that reminds me of Roz from Wiz, who also, you were an engineer originally. 4 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
- ▶ 8:27 Lenny Rachitsky I love this because this connects really well with an episode I just did with the CMO of Wiz, and the founders went through this exactly.
- ▶ 41:27 Lenny Rachitsky That's funny, because that's exactly what Wiz noticed, is they moved from people being like, oh, this is cool, I like it, I like it, to, okay, I'm gonna pull in this person, I'm gonna pull in this person to talk about it and make sure…
- ▶ 1:08:01 Jen Abel We've seen people be really successful by starting at the enterprise, like a whiz.
Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)
- ▶ 0:02 Lenny Rachitsky You're the first product manager, Wiz.
- ▶ 1:14 Lenny Rachitsky Roz is chief marketing officer and VP of product strategy at Wiz. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Lenny Rachitsky So I want to start by giving a little context on Wiz for folks that aren't super familiar with the company. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, so you're, for one of the first 10 employees, you're the first product manager, Wiz. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:46 Raaz Herzberg Again, Wiz was founded in, like, that terrible March where the world closed down. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Raaz Herzberg It's, it's having that culture in place that enables it, and I also have to say, like, when I think of, you know, the founding team, and the founding team in Wiz, Wiz is a very, like, flat organization in some ways.
- ▶ 18:13 Raaz Herzberg I don't think it's ever happened since in Twizz.
- ▶ 21:23 Raaz Herzberg I also think that, like, one of the things we did very, um, almost, like, uniquely at Wiz was that because things started rolling so fast for us when we found, like, the right path, we ended up selling before we had a sellers team.
- ▶ 23:55 Lenny Rachitsky So currently you're CMO and also VP of product strategy at Wiz. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Raaz Herzberg And then the heat starts moving to marketing, in my opinion, where it's like, ok, we have the market fit, salespeople can sell it, but they're, but they're saying, give me more pipeline, like, hey, I'm, nobody heard of Wiz, give me more.
- ▶ 30:30 Lenny Rachitsky Speaking of kind of this move to marketing, he said that when you were in your first board meeting, the whiz board meeting, presenting marketing and sharing your plan, and you asked him, hey, can you introduce me to all these marketing… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:08 Raaz Herzberg From, from a security background could kind of be successful deeply in this type of a role for a company like Wiz, because it is really about understanding your customers and it is really about understanding your product.
- ▶ 36:35 Lenny Rachitsky Can you share some of the things you did that helped create noise and get the whiz name out there that might inspire folks of like, oh, that was really, that was really cool. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:24 Raaz Herzberg That is, that is, like, the thing that has grown in me, um, where it, you know, when I took the job at Wiz, I was sure they're gonna, like, I was sure they got confused, that they offered to take me with them.
- ▶ 48:41 Raaz Herzberg Yes, it's, it's when I, now in marketing, and in everything we write, and everything our team produces in terms of anything, anything written by Wiz, I keep kind of going back to, I don't want us to forget that we are inside our own… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:34 Raaz Herzberg So inside Wiz, we have the Wiz graph database for security. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:06 Lenny Rachitsky One is, so there's four co-founders of Wiz, is that right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:49 Raaz Herzberg I deeply, deeply believe that we're doing something super special in Wiz. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:51 Raaz Herzberg And then the second, a second book I really like, um, I read it early on in Wiz, and so did, um,
- ▶ 1:02:08 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me of the story when you were trying to sell the initial version of Wiz slash new beyond, whatever it was called early on.
- ▶ 1:02:25 Lenny Rachitsky As I said, allegedly, uh, a company whose name rhymes with Lugal, uh, wanted to buy you guys for many billions and y'all decided to decline that and stay private. 10 times in the scene