Bootstrapping an AI-Powered Security Startup to $10M+ in Revenue: Osprey Security CEO Rohit Anabheri (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you have a customer with whom you validated this with?

Rohit Anabheri: This has been my mantra. Find your customer. Know their problems and fix their problems. We did it very organically. We knew what the gaps were. Then what we did is documented them and went to the people to validate.

Sramana Mitra: Who are these people?

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