Casey Ellis
7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2025 by Casey Ellis · across every show →
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Oct 13, 2025
VC rejection usually reflects poor founder communication, not investor stupidity
“My job is to understand this industry, like the market, the future of the market, where it's going, like see around corners, do all those different things. Like that's my job. And my job is to be the best in the world at that. Their job Is to be the best in th…”
Oct 13, 2025
Founders should exhaust personal networks before hiring sales reps pre-Series A
“Like don't think about marketing funnels or PLG or like hiring salespeople or any of that stuff until you as a founder have figured out how to tap out your existing networks. I think the bulk of the power that you're going to have pre series A is probably goin…”
Oct 13, 2025 neutral
Customer acquisition was Bugcrowd's hardest challenge due to early hacker stigma
“Customers, a hundred percent. Like I was cheating a little bit on the supply side because I was already a part of that community. So I already had, you know, some degree of like trust and different things like that. And then Once you kind of drive a message ac…”
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Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025 negative
Hourly pen testers cannot match unconstrained crowds of adversaries
“The problem that I had with it was this idea that, like, you know, the whole reason that we're here as a cybersecurity defender industry is because of this crowd of adversaries, right? It doesn't look like one person being paid by the hour. It looks like this …”
Oct 13, 2025
Casey Ellis refined Bugcrowd's pitch by testing it on Uber drivers
“Literally every time I got in the car, I do this. And this is how I refined my pitch. Cause it's like, if I can get this out, have them show some sort of buying intent. Not confuse them or trip them up in the process. The more consistently I can do that, the m…”