Gili Raanan
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558 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Mar
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Because you know the rule that a great software developer is probably 10 times better than a good software developer. But having great software developers, that their hobby, their sole hobby, is writing code, that's a force multiplier. And I think we've realized that and capitalized on that. Is the outcome satisfying? I think I told you as part of the interview that I'm never satisfied, so...
The answer is no. And I know that you're going to laugh and say, okay, I really feel that. But again, it's hard to live life twice. I wish I could. I would A, B test that decision again. But I think it's setting the bar super high to get from zero to $32 billion valuation within five years. I didn't check history books, but I guess that's pretty good.
But I can think about a few other companies that has the potential, at least, to break that record. I dare to predict, again, assuming this transaction go through and get approved, et cetera, and that's the real final outcome. My guess that within 10 years, somebody would break that record.
because you have all the ingredients. You've got the market size, you've got the evolving pain point, fast moving landscape, and a lot of talent, a lot of experienced talent, not just on the engineering side, but also on the business side. And I think that you have some experienced investors as well. So I think that you've got the ingredients. Now, luck should be in the mix as well.
And therefore, I think that within the next decade, we would see that record getting achieved and broken by a new player.
Yeah. Before starting CyberStarts, I lost my daughter, my 19-year-old daughter, in a terrible tragedy. And the world just closed for me. And it was very easy to stop everything and focus on the endless pain I felt. I managed to find the power and the strength to keep on going, build CyberStarts, and focus on building that organization and legacy.
And that really helped me to continue to live with the pain, but continue to live.
I think it's very, very difficult to give advice to. Hopefully nobody has to deal with that tragedy. It's really the most painful thing that you can go through. For myself, I did that instinctively. I didn't spend time to think about it. I didn't make a decision. I just did it.
In a way, I managed to live with terrible emotions that previously I wouldn't imagine I can contain them and live with them. And over time, I taught myself to live with the pain, not fight the pain, just wait for the pain to ease. And I think that working with younger people on innovation, on solving real-world problems, on building solutions, that's what kept me younger and healthier.
I really think that there's many ways to become a terrific investor. I don't think there's one canonical way to get there. By the way, it's not enough just to be first. You also need to be right. That's the difference between an investor and a terrific investor, being right. But again, there are many ways to hell, but there's also more than one way to heaven.
My recommendation is to really find your passion and do something that's not just profit generation or work. Do something that's a life project for you. When I look at cybersecurity, cybersecurity is not an investment area. It's not an area of interest for me. It's a life project. It's really important for me.
And I think that's the best thing you can feel about anything you do, that it's super, super important for you. You really care about it.
It's not the way I think about cybersecurity future. I don't keep a category of domains, etc. It's a common misconception to think about cybersecurity as a market. Stand alone, there's no cybersecurity market. Cybersecurity is always a derivative of something else. a new technology or a new business. So if cloud is new, you need cloud security.
And if autonomous vehicles are new, you need autonomous vehicle security. Take, for instance, our conversation about AI. AI, for short, redefines cybersecurity. It already does it, but you couldn't predict it. So an investor that focuses on cybersecurity early stage investment, I'm not concerned about figuring out the best, the most important things or opportunities or domain in cybersecurity.
I'm confident they will introduce themselves. The same as cloud introduced itself, IoT security introduced itself, mobile security introduced itself, AI security introduced itself. I'm focused on picking the right talent, picking the right athletes, partnering with them, and making sure that you use the right system.
See our conversation around Sunrise to really build solutions that real customers, real users would love. If we do that, everything else would fix itself.
The kindest thing that someone has done for me is a couple of years ago, my son told me that he spent a lot of time thinking about it and he realized that I'm his best friend. For me, that was probably the best thing anyone could tell me. It's not just about being a dad. It's the ability to create this level of trust and emotional connection that makes someone feel that you are his best friend.
And when it comes from your son, that's the kindest thing you can hear from anyone.
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