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SPI Dynamics
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 7)
SM: How large did SPI become? CS: We ended at 165 people with close to $26 million in revenue by the time we were acquired in 2007.
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 6)
SM: How did you approach the financing phase of your business? Was there an angel community in Atlanta that you were able to plug into? CS: Atlanta is not known for its angel investment scene. We knew a gentleman who had sold his company in the 1990s and made a lot of money. He believed
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 5)
SM: What was the genesis of creating that product? Was it your work on the pentest contracts? CS: The head of Bell South told me that if I could automate my Web assessments techniques and provide a product that he could run in-house, he would purchase it from me.
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 4)
SM: Your first real job, as a teenager, involved securing online banking products? CS: That was when I got involved with real security work. I started going through security techniques and examining exploits. At the time, there was a very small company called ISS that was also based out of Atlanta. They found me and
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 3)
SM: By 1994 the Internet was getting started. CS: Yes, folks like AOL were big at that time. I was still reading on DBS, and I was hooking up with local groups. CompuServe opened up a whole new world by allowing us to publish text files and learned knowledge by posting into newsgroups that were
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 2)
SM: In the end, your parents did you a favor by taking away the television and forcing you into something more productive. CS: My father took a particularly interesting approach to my activities. He helped me to make my first fake ID. I wanted to make a fake ID, and I downloaded all the items
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)
Prior to taking the helm of Armorize, Caleb Sima was co-founder and CTO to SPI Dynamics, the world’s leading and de facto standard for Web application security scanning. After being acquired by HP, Caleb was made HP’s Chief Technologist – Application Security Center, where he helped HP build a SaaS version of HP’s application security
