In this episode of The Be Fearless Podcast, SquareX founder Vivek Rmachandran sits with cybersecurity legend Jeremiah Grossman — one of the “OGs” of cyber, founder of WhiteHat Security, and now MD at Grossman Ventures.Jeremiah shares his wealth of knowledge and takes us through his security journey, sharing how he went from breaking into Yahoo Mail (and getting a free t-shirt for it) to building some of the most influential cybersecurity companies in the industry.0:00 Jeremiah’s early days in cybersecurity and hacking Yahoo4:59 Founding WhiteHat Security and creating a common AppSec lexicon9:20 How Jeremiah got started presenting in conferences12:11 How the hacking scene has changed to becoming a vocation14:44 Making the leap from security researcher to founder18:49 Advice for founders: the 3 types of people to talk to daily24:19 After WhiteHat: achieving success with SentinelOne28:54 Moving on to being a venture capitalist35:25 Advice to budding cybersecurity entrepreneurs: lock on to that one problem39:37 Why browser security is at odds with the advertising model43:34 On being a SquareX advisor and investor49:23 Final thoughts and where to connect with Jeremiah 🔔 Follow Jeremiah and Vivek on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/grossmanjeremiah/https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekramachandran/🔥 Powered by SquareXDeployed as a lightweight extension, SquareX turns any browser, on any device, into a secure enterprise browser. Find out more about SquareX at https://hubs.la/Q03rPcbf0

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