Ahikam Kaufman

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208 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · S12 E25: From Processing $500B at Intuit to Building the Fraud-Proof Ledger: Eradicating Financial Misstatement with Ahikam Kaufman, Co-Founder & CEO of Safebooks AI · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Security first.

Whatever we do, top of mind for engineering is the security of the data, right?

We process very sensitive data.

Security always comes first.

And you have to have that mindset when you develop with the engineer.

It does stall us a lot of times in releasing new features because we want to think about, okay, if we enable this thing,

How can we make sure it's also fully secured?

Because a lot of time, changes in a platform can create vulnerabilities.

So being a security-first company was like one of the cultures we were trying to install with the team.

But I was inspired by, and again, I don't think you need to be inspired by someone who did exactly what you're doing.

It's the approach to how you build a team, how you build a culture, how you build a business, lesson learned from, let's say, if you're in the B2B business, what to do, what's not to do.

And you also learn from your team.

Because when you hire a diverse team, I think diversification brings a lot of value when you put people together and each comes with its own discipline and learnings and so on.

Takeaways.

The cookie-cutter advices are around respect your investors, keep them informed, because I see a lot of times where people understand they need to take money from investors, but they don't understand it's like a two-way relationship and you have to keep them engaged and informed.

So treat your investors as your partners.

Treat your team as your partners.

Try to build a culture and try to hire according to that culture, whatever that culture is.

And despite everyone saying the same thing, still every organization has its own culture.

Try to hire the team based on the culture, not just necessarily based on skills.

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