Or Weiss

Co-Founder & CEO, Permit.io · 1 appearance on the record.

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Or Weis is the co-founder and CEO of Permit.io, an authorization and permissions-as-a-service platform, and a maintainer of the open-source project OPAL. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Rookout.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Or argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Weiss: Unit 8200 focuses solely on intelligence collection, unlike the NSA

“That's a separate body. So there was, so that's actually a difference from the NSA. The NSA is responsible both for securing the infrastructures and intelligence monitoring. The ISNU or AD-D-E-Hundred is only responsible for intelligence.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Or Weiss on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said11 Episodes1

Everything Or Weiss said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Weiss: Unit 8200 is structured to function independently if Israel collapses

“And it's fully independent. It's structured in a way. So if the entire IDF, the entire state of Israel crumbles to dust, it should still be able to function on its own.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 5:05 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Insight

Weiss: Open-source feature requests provide more market insight than code contributions

“Because that the using and asking for features that really teaches me on what the market needs and how the problem space looks in the details of it.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 12:34 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Disclosure

Weiss took a lower valuation to secure preferred seed investors

“I even, I think in some parts of it, I decided to opt for a lower valuation to work with people that I wanted.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 17:45 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Opinion

Weiss: GitHub Copilot generates documentation better than developers originally conceive

“Currently and recently it's GitHub Copilot. I'm astounded not only by how good it is by delivering code, but also documentation. Like I start to write the documentation as part of an MD file and it gives recommendations for the content of the documentation tha…”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 22:16 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Assertion Supported

Weiss: Unit 8200 focuses solely on intelligence collection, unlike the NSA

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Weiss: Open-source OPAL is used in production at Tesla, Zapier, and Accenture

“And while Opal is a very young project, it's not even a year old. It's already being used in production in amazing companies like Tesla, Zapier, Accenture, and others.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 11:25 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Disclosure

Weiss: Permit.io has nearly a dozen customers heading to production

“So we launched our SaaS offering as kind of open to everyone as part of our announcement of coming out of stealth a month ago. And we now have almost, we're getting close to a dozen customers heading to production.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 14:41 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Disclosure

Permit.io raised a $6 million seed round in July 2021

“We've raised a six million seed round in July.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 16:26 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Disclosure

Weiss: Permit.io has over two years of runway from $6M seed

“A bit over two years.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 19:50 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Assertion Supported

Weiss: Snyk took over two years to reach $1M ARR

“Sneak took about almost a bit over two years to get to a million ARR. Which is considered slow. If you look, if you think classic enterprise slaves, but two years later, there were already a multi-billion dollar company.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 20:21 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Weiss rebuilt access control five times in three years at Rookout

“I got to that as in my previous company, a lookout, I ended up rebuilding access control for our product five times in a three-year-old company.”

Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 7:15 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time	Apr 2, 2022	13m

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