Guy Podjarny

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Oct 27, 2025
Disclosure
TESL has practically all of its $125M funding still in the bank
“Practically the entirety of that amount by, like, Massive percentages is still in the bank”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 48:27 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Insight
Reducing product difficulty drives adoption faster than increasing user motivation
“In every product you build, there's kind of, there's how much you care, and there's how hard it is, and you need to care more than it is hard, and you'll do it, and so one of your tools is to make someone care more, but that's a slow process. The other tool yo…”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 17:49 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Insight
A VC-backed founder's worst case is getting stuck at $2M-$3M ARR
“The kind of worst case scenario is not to get to crash and burn with your company, but to get stuck, to get to a company that it's at two million RR, three million RR, growing 30% year on year. It's kind of enough that you don't really want to just cut loose a…”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 49:39 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Assertion Supported
75% of attacks target apps, but get under 25% of security budgets
“75% of the attacks and hacks happen at the application layer, but 25% of the budget or the investment happens over there, and that's probably generous.”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 9:23 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025 positive
Insight
To win developers in security, founders must build a devtool company
“If you want to get developers to use a security product, you have to build a developer tooling company not a security company.”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 13:17 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Insight
Devtools win bottom-up because the minimum unit of value is one developer
“For security, it's governance. So it's probably like a business unit, minimum unit. But for developers, because of that single developer and because developers are more empowered, DevTools generally win bottom up. You have to win over the developer first.”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 26:25 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Snyk burned $4M to hit $100K ARR, reaching $19M 2.5 years later
“That was like two years and two months in, we were at a 100,000 ARR not awesome. And we burned four million dollars by that time. You know, four months later, we're at six 50. A year later, we're at four and a half million. A year later, we're at nineteen mill…”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 37:07 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Disclosure
Podjarny's new startup TESL raised a $25M Seed and $100M Series A
“We raised a hundred and twenty-five million dollars total, like a hundred million dollar A and the twenty-five million dollar seed, and we raised the last one back in September.”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 47:47 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Guy Podjarny: Akamai's web performance unit generated around $700M per year
“Akamai acquired us. So pretty quickly, within a couple of years, I got the chance to be the CTO of the web performance part of Akamai. It was about half of Akamai, seven hundred million dollar a year business.”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 2:21 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
Oct 27, 2025
Disclosure
Snyk abandoned automated micro-patching because developers feared it would break builds
“And we actually introduced an ability to patch. Sometimes you have a library that's vulnerable and doesn't have a fix. And we introduced, you know, we introduced an ability to patch because oftentimes it's like a line of code. So install the old version of the…”
Guy Podjarny Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 22:22 He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
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