Brendan Foody

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Well, it was a Saturday, so I was in the office and I was talking with our engineering team.

And I think the initial thing is, of course, like, how are we communicating this to customers and trying to be very proactive about understanding exactly what happened, what was accessed, et cetera.

And then how do we communicate this to the experts and just containing it

moving quickly on the comms.

And then from there, of course, making sure that we put in place all the right things so that it never happens again.

Well, it's interesting because I feel like throughout the lifetime of the business, I have been through a lot of very stressful moments.

That was definitely stressful, but it definitely wasn't close to the most stressful one.

Seriously?

Yeah.

I mean, there's been times when, you know, I'm freaking out about making sure we get something right with a customer or whatever it is.

But part of it is that there was this

broad perception on Twitter that was much more exaggerated than what actually happened within the business.

And so having a thorough understanding of what actually happened and having really strong relationships with customers gave us a lot of confidence that we would get through it, be on the other side even stronger.

And we used to have six values as a company, but we added a seventh value, a security, to make sure it's very ingrained in the culture.

But I think that

Yeah, just that confidence that we know what's going on and that there's sort of this echo chamber on X that we need to hedge against a little bit.

Do you pay attention to it and do founders need to pay attention to it?

Definitely.

I mean, I think founders need to pay attention to it.

Like we had an all hands with a company where we just laid out, here's exactly what's happening.

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