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Aleksandr Yampolskiy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

So the very strong network effects that we're seeing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

We're seeing good return on investment from companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

conferences from events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

For example, we did a big splash at RSA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

We launched a new product recently called Bridge Insights that nobody else in the market has that measures concentration risk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

We spend heavily on events and just brand recognition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Yeah, we're spending more than a million on events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

I mean, we see in, look, I mean, we see in LTV to CAC over three, which is good in the enterprise space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Yeah, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

So we launched the company in the beginning of 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And the story is that I was a chief security officer at Guild Group.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And one day we were looking at a solution that helped mitigate e-commerce fraud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

It was a software as a service that helped mitigate e-commerce fraud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

It would look and say, hey, Nathan today is logging in from New York buying $200 worth of clothes, but all of a sudden you're in Austin, Texas buying $1,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Something is suspicious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And so it was a very good solution, and we had to integrate our systems with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

and we looked at the contract we looked at the penetration test results everything looked great and literally at the last moment when we started integrating with that company we looked at their systems and we discovered unencrypted credit card data floating in their systems and that was an oh shit moment for me because i realized i could lose my job as a chief security officer due to negligence of somebody else and um the question uh really uh

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

stood out to me the question that nobody in a market is thinking about how to measure security.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

There's got to be a way to come up with objective metrics that measure cybersecurity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

And that's what we came up with.