Shyam Sankar

So I had been working at Zoom for almost three years. And one of the colleagues I was working with said, you know, there's this company that just sounds perfect for you. It's a small group of people. At the time, it was 12 people. And my freshman room dorm mate at Stanford is one of the co-founders. No kidding? So he put me in touch with Joe, and Joe hired me. That's how I got started.

It was honestly something much smaller. I mean, it was still ambitious in the sense that this group of folks wanted to work on problems to help a handful of institutions in the world with counterterrorism.

It was honestly something much smaller. I mean, it was still ambitious in the sense that this group of folks wanted to work on problems to help a handful of institutions in the world with counterterrorism.

It was honestly something much smaller. I mean, it was still ambitious in the sense that this group of folks wanted to work on problems to help a handful of institutions in the world with counterterrorism.

And we had this idea that in the discourse, if we can remember what it was like immediately post 9-11, it was really the political discourse was something like, what matters more, security or privacy? And it's like, to us as engineers, that sounded stupid. Like, don't both of those things matter? And so... Politicians, they debate where should you be on the efficient frontier?

And we had this idea that in the discourse, if we can remember what it was like immediately post 9-11, it was really the political discourse was something like, what matters more, security or privacy? And it's like, to us as engineers, that sounded stupid. Like, don't both of those things matter? And so... Politicians, they debate where should you be on the efficient frontier?

And we had this idea that in the discourse, if we can remember what it was like immediately post 9-11, it was really the political discourse was something like, what matters more, security or privacy? And it's like, to us as engineers, that sounded stupid. Like, don't both of those things matter? And so... Politicians, they debate where should you be on the efficient frontier?

Should we trade off this to have more of this or whatever? But engineers, they build things so you can have more of both.

Should we trade off this to have more of this or whatever? But engineers, they build things so you can have more of both.

Should we trade off this to have more of this or whatever? But engineers, they build things so you can have more of both.

And so who's going to build the actual technology that allows us to protect the data so that we can maximize what we can share, so that there's never going to be dots that we can't connect again, and do so in a way that the American people have confidence in and can believe in, and recognizing that a solution that was really going to do that would have to span countries.

And so who's going to build the actual technology that allows us to protect the data so that we can maximize what we can share, so that there's never going to be dots that we can't connect again, and do so in a way that the American people have confidence in and can believe in, and recognizing that a solution that was really going to do that would have to span countries.

And so who's going to build the actual technology that allows us to protect the data so that we can maximize what we can share, so that there's never going to be dots that we can't connect again, and do so in a way that the American people have confidence in and can believe in, and recognizing that a solution that was really going to do that would have to span countries.

You know, one of the proudest operations that we were involved in was defeating an ISIS cell in Iraq that had a downed US drone that they were going to load with explosives and bring to a hospital, explode it, and then blame it on the coalition. And to solve that problem, it required intel from the Danes, the Americans, and the Brits. You know, and how does that work historically?

You know, one of the proudest operations that we were involved in was defeating an ISIS cell in Iraq that had a downed US drone that they were going to load with explosives and bring to a hospital, explode it, and then blame it on the coalition. And to solve that problem, it required intel from the Danes, the Americans, and the Brits. You know, and how does that work historically?

You know, one of the proudest operations that we were involved in was defeating an ISIS cell in Iraq that had a downed US drone that they were going to load with explosives and bring to a hospital, explode it, and then blame it on the coalition. And to solve that problem, it required intel from the Danes, the Americans, and the Brits. You know, and how does that work historically?

Hopefully you have friends at each of these services and you're all going to share information and it gets through the foreign disclosure process. And, you know, everything in that methodology is set up so that we lose. You're not going to be able to do it fast enough to intervene.

Hopefully you have friends at each of these services and you're all going to share information and it gets through the foreign disclosure process. And, you know, everything in that methodology is set up so that we lose. You're not going to be able to do it fast enough to intervene.

Hopefully you have friends at each of these services and you're all going to share information and it gets through the foreign disclosure process. And, you know, everything in that methodology is set up so that we lose. You're not going to be able to do it fast enough to intervene.

But, you know, our technology enabled that to happen machine to machine in a way that before they could get the drone out of their garage, they were gone. Wow.