From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What were the components of the full authentication? Deepak Gupta: We did a user name and password with social login. We were managing the full login and registration. Pretty much the whole element of login, registration, forgot password, and user activation. Sramana Mitra: Were you still just within the Drupal ecosystem?

From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In what timeframe did you zero in on the pricing model? Deepak Gupta: We did experiments on pricing. After 9 to 12 months, we got to a decent pricing model. Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about those experiments? What was working and not working?

From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you get done in those few months when you still had the job? Deepak Gupta: At the beginning, there was a little hesitation whether the product was going to work. As soon as we launched, we started getting customers. Customers started asking questions. In those few months, I saw that there

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From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 1)

Deepak tells a textbook story of a developer turned entrepreneur. He and his cofounder started by bootstrapping with a paycheck, validated the hypothesis, and then quit their jobs. We love stories like this, as you know. Sramana Mitra: Tell me where you’re from, born, raised. What kind of background?

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We’ve talked about the who. What happens in the what? I’m doing this manually. I don’t have a big system like yours protecting me. I do have enough experience to know that this doesn’t make sense. I check the email address. Then I check the offer, eyeball, and pass. What are the heuristics

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti (Part 1)

We all understand Phishing. Eyal has built a fast-growth company addressing this ubiquitous nuisance. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about yourself and IRONSCALES. Eyal Benishti: I’m the Founder and CEO of IRONSCALES. We mitigate the risk of email phishing that businesses face today. We offer simplicity and speed for accelerated visibility for all types of phishing

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Gryphon CEO John Wu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your company. Is it venture-funded? John Wu: We’re a customer-funded company. We view our customers as our partners in this. We have done several successful equity crowdfunding rounds in the last few years. We raised over $11 million in past rounds. A lot of it came from our

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Gryphon CEO John Wu (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: But you would still have to sell the full product – hardware and software – if a carrier wants to work with you. John Wu: It depends on the carrier. Some carriers have their hardware vendors picked out. They want to use their hardware vendors. We can port the software onto this hardware.

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