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Jon McNeill

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My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And so then we started to ask ourselves, like, is there a one size fits all here scenario?

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And it turned out there was.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

We asked, we just happened to ask the question, how many cybersecurity platforms have been created for the cloud in the last five years?

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And the answer is like 1300.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And then we said, how many have been created for the SMB in the last five years?

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And the answer was zero.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

All right, this is a one-size-fits-all market.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Cyber is sized to the cloud, which I totally get.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

As a computer scientist, I get that it's easier to write to Amazon, Azure, and Google, and it's super difficult to write to an infinity number of tech stacks in SMB.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

So that one size fits all is creating an opportunity.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And then we asked one more question because then we felt like we knew the answer to this question.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Where are the ransomware attacks happening?

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And no surprise, it's in the S&P side because they haven't had tech in five years.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And so we set out to build a company that is essentially...

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

a super modern cyber platform for widely variable tech stacks and introduced that.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

It's got a ton of market traction and it's like one of the fastest growing companies in cyber right now.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

But it came from that first insight of like, ooh, we just tripped across a one size fits all.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

The market has been 100% cloud and there's this small medium thing hanging out here that isn't large or extra large.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

How about we like split the market and go after where the competition isn't?

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Exactly.