The Founder Formula
Every passing moment, a tech startup disrupts life as it was. In humanity’s pursuit of faster, better, and higher capacity, fresh companies are tackling old problems and modern complexities, all while pushing the bounds of the future.
The Founder Formula brings you in—behind the curtains and inside the minds of executives at Start-ups that have traditionally only been found in Silicon Valley—and the Venture Capital Firms that fund them.
Episodes
43 episodes
Oded Hareven - Co-Founder Akeyless
The rise of machines has led to a tsunami of machine identities. This Founder set out to manage those identities and protect their secrets.In this episode, of The Founder Formula, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty interview Oded...
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Episode 42
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52:13
Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks - Founder of KeepWOL
In this episode of The Founder Formula, learn all about Lauren Fitzpatrick Shank’s journey to entrepreneurism. Lauren is the Founder and CEO of KeepWOL, a game-centric talent development platform. Listen in to this episode of The F...
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Episode 41
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44:28
Bipul Sinha - Co-Founder of Rubrik
This Founder has years of experience helping billion-dollar companies realize their full potential, including the data security company he founded, Rubrik. In Bipul Sinha’s world, data is the most critical asset.Co-hosts Todd Gallina an...
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Episode 40
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34:15
Chris Kirsch - Co-Founder of runZero
This Founder has some surprising additional talents outside of founding a company that’s raised $20 million in VC funding to hunt for networked devices. After helping several start-up brands market their solutions, Chris Kirsch joined the found...
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Episode 39
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57:36
Guy Podjarny - Founder of Snyk
Security teams sometimes need to tackle big transformations as they keep up with today’s threat landscape. This two-time Founder set out to make that transformation less intimidating.In this episode, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy ...
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Episode 38
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47:52
Mohit Tiwari - Co-founder of Symmetry Systems
Identity and data are intrinsically linked. In fact, our guest in this episode tells us 10 years from now the only things that will mater in cloud computing and cybersecurity will be people and data. The rest is just details.In this epi...
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Episode 37
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46:24
Arick Goomanovsky - Co-founder of Ermetic
This Founder challenges others looking to start a business to ask themselves - Why do you want to start a company? Ermetic Co-Founder Arick Goomanovsky is a two-time founder who appreciates the ever-evolving journey of founding a company. In th...
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Episode 36
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47:17
Vikram Kapoor - Co-founder of Lacework
This entrepreneur knows that to build a successful company, the clients’ experiences, motivations, issues, and mindset comes first. Vikram Kapoor, Co-founder and CTO of Lacework, talks about the origins of his customer-centric mentality in his ...
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Episode 35
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34:13
Rakesh Loonkar - President & Co-founder of Transmit Security
You need these two things to start a company: a really big idea and a plan for how to get there. Our guest today has an absolutely mammoth idea…Passwordless authentication.In this episode, we interview Rakesh Loonkar, President & Co...
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Episode 34
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49:38
Armon Dadgar - Co-founder of HashiCorp
Big tech companies have their pros and cons; but compared to the freedom found in startups, the choice was a no-brainer for Armon.In this episode, we interview Armon Dadgar, Co-founder and CTO at HashiCorp, about how his company gained ...
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Episode 33
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39:23
Amir Ben-Efraim - Co-founder of Menlo Security
Menlo was founded, in part, because five cybersecurity experts were fed up. Security products should stop bad things from happening — but they didn’t.Founding his second company on the premise of “Hey, we can do better” has taken this e...
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Episode 32
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43:45
Andrew Rubin - Founder of Illumio
Celebrating a massive milestone - $225 million in Series F funding for Illumio - our guest today is startup guru and network security expert, Andrew Rubin. Illumio is at the bleeding edge of the cybersecurity maelstrom with their groundbreaking...
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Episode 31
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52:09
Mike Pfeiffer - Founder of CloudSkills.io
For this Founder, getting out of the cubicle and teaching completely changed his life and his career.We’re talking to Mike Pfeiffer this week on The Founder Formula. He’s the CEO and Founder of CloudSkills.io, the most immersive cloud a...
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Episode 30
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41:07
Brian Wheeler - Co-founder of Morpheus Data
Why would you launch a company when you’re already working at your dream job?If you’re Brian Wheeler, the answer is simple: you can stay a partner at your dream job, while also able to branch out and launch a new company. It was a win/w...
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Episode 29
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44:24
Ian Tien - Co-founder of Mattermost
How do you know when you’ve built a winning culture? More importantly, how do you know when you’ve succeeded in instilling your core values across the entire company?We’re talking this week to Ian Tien, CEO at Mattermost, an enterprise ...
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Episode 28
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43:57
Evan Macmillan - Co-founder of Gridspace
If you’re not using video to communicate your message, odds are that you’re missing a huge array of potential investors, consumers, and users. And before you make excuses about your company not being exciting, or your product not sexy enough fo...
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Episode 27
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48:13
Nolan Bushnell - Co-founder of Atari, Inc. Part 2
Last Episode we spoke with a man who has been called the Father of Video Games. Silicon Valley legend Nolan Bushnell. If you haven’t listened, make sure you go back and do so, because we talked all about his career up through his time at Atari,...
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Episode 26
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26:17
Nolan Bushnell - Co-founder of Atari, Inc. Part 1
For the 25th episode of The Founder Formula, we thought we’d pull out all the stops, and invite one of the most famous founders in Silicon Valley history on the show for a two part extravaganza. If you spent any amount of time in the 1970’s &am...
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Episode 25
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26:01
Renen Hallak - Co-founder of VAST Data
On this week’s episode of The Founder Formula, we talk with Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. In 2019, he was honored for entrepreneurship by Goldman Sachs at their annual Innovator Summit.His company also recently made the ne...
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Episode 24
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39:05
Rehan Jalil - Three-Time Tech Founder
On this week’s episode of The Founders Formula, we talk with Rehan Jalil. Rehan is a successful three-time founder, holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, has over 25 patents either granted or pending, and was named one of Ernst & Young...
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Episode 23
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43:17
Justin Borgman - Co-founder of Starburst
Our recent podcast guest and 2-time founder saw entrepreneurship as a way to have an impact on the world. He and his employees wanted to do something to help fight against COVID-19, so they made their whole enterprise solution free to COVID-19 ...
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Episode 22
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50:06
Todd Mostak - Co-founder of OmniSci
When we asked Todd what clued him in that he was destined to become an entrepreneur, he said, “Intense curiosity.”The first-time founder taught himself Arabic, programming languages, data science, and entrepreneurship.In this ep...
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Episode 21
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40:28
George Kurtz - Co-founder of CrowdStrike
George Kurtz is the President, Founder, & CEO of CrowdStrike, but his journey to the CEO of a $20B+ company isn’t one that a lot of people would expect.On this episode of The Founder Formula, we sit down with George to discuss what ...
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Episode 20
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33:21
Jon Oberheide - Co-founder of Duo Security
After growing up in Ann Arbor and attending the University of Michigan, Jon Oberheide and his partner Dug Song started their career as offensive security researchers.They soon found that it’s really easy to break things in the security ...
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Episode 19
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