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Q Uh, can you do some backstory on the company? Can you break down what you're building, who you are, little career highlights? I mean, yeah, I'm sure a lot of people know, but give us the basics.
A Yeah, so, um, I started off my career in like this weird corner of operational counter-terrorism in the U.S. military. Um, that sort of branched into high technology and high technology strategy. Um, again, when I was still in uniform and got a lot of exposure to just how much, um, you know, the world is a very interconnected place, and there are things that we can do in the digital world that absolutely affect the physical world. People talk about Stuxnet, they talk about, you know, these, these attacks that have happened against, uh, oil facilities. So, um, I get out of the military, I go to Silicon Valley, and then two years later, Just like a strange series of coincidences. I get asked to come back to Washington and essentially be like the most senior cybersecurity person in the US government. Not like I'm going to reset your password, but like I'm going to remake our entire practice of running cyber operations for like the DOD and the intelligence community and Homeland Security and all that stuff. So I did that job for four years, and then afterwards, um, pulled together two buddies of mine, including Brandon Park, who helped stand up Amazon's global, what we call operational technology OT cybersecurity program at Amazon, and then Felix Plushinsky, who I'd recruited to come join me in the admin, who was a hedge fund trader, and we started looking at this problem. It's a h…
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Q Uh, what, what's been your read on our response to Deep Seek broadly? Do you think that US companies have been taking it seriously enough? There's this, you know, general lens from some, some, some of the tech community that says it's, you know, it's open source, you know, it's not sort of the, the same type of risk as TikTok. Uh, what's your read on it?
A Yeah. Look, a major frustration that I have is that we get a bunch of these cutting edge companies, and then, you know, almost certainly you have foreign, foreign actors, not just the Chinese, like many other foreign actors that come in. I mean, you can read the papers that came out of like the Twitter buyout, you know, transition to X, and they basically are like, yeah, we had foreign, we had foreign intel services, foreign governments, like operating inside You know, ex formerly known as Twitter. Um, I think that's happening at a bunch of our companies. I think it's a huge problem, huge counterintelligence problem. Cause the question is like, what are they manipulating? Like, are they putting back doors in there? Are they changing content? Are they changing? Um, you don't know. And a lot of the companies, many of which my friends have worked at, um, they don't even have a way to think about this. And also obviously like, it's not politically correct to talk about it. Like, hey, maybe we shouldn't hire that foreign national that went to the, like, you know, military college of their respective nation and whose uncle is like the deputy chief of their Intel service. Yeah.
AI assessment note: “a major frustration that I have is that we get a bunch of these cutting edge companies”
