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In this episode of Notable Perspectives, we sit down with Ofer Smadari, co-founder and CEO of Torq. Cybersecurity is in the midst of a massive transformation, and Torq is setting the pace.
Ofer has built and sold a cybersecurity company for over $200 million. But he still had that founder hunger and urge to build — this time even bigger. Cut to today, Torq has recently announced a $140 million Series D and a valuation of over $1 billion. This is the story of what happens when a serial founder refuses to settle.
Episode Summary
Hear how Torq’s founding team went from a previous exit to building one of the most ambitious platforms in modern cybersecurity. In this episode, we dig into:
The Pivot That Built Torq: Why the team shut down their original product and redirected their technology toward cybersecurity automation after realizing adoption wasn’t there.
The Alert Fatigue Problem: How security teams are overwhelmed by alerts and why automation is essential to eliminate operational noise and scale security operations.
Modernizing the SOC: Why legacy security platforms were built for on-prem environments and how Torq’s open, SaaS-first platform enables faster integrations and automation.
AI in Security Operations: From no-code automation to AI-driven investigation agents that perform analyst-level tasks and accelerate threat response.
Founder Trust and Velocity: How strong co-founder relationships, decisive leadership, and trust across teams enabled rapid pivots and global growth.
Produced by Breaking Glass Studio
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In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Hans Tung and Chelcie Taylor sit down with Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, the founders of Wispr, a company on a mission to make interacting with technology feel as natural as talking to a close friend.
They’re the team behind Wispr Flow, a voice operating system built to replace the keyboard. By delivering a "zero-edit” experience, Wispr has closed the decade-long trust gap in voice technology. Users spend half a second between finishing a thought and hitting send, trusting the AI to have captured their intent perfectly without a single edit.
We trace the journey of these two Stanford roommates who cycled through 100 ideas before finding the "one." We dive deep into:
The Paradigm Shift: Why the keyboard is the ultimate bottleneck for human thought and how Wispr is building the "Universal Interface" to replace it.
The Hardware Trap: Why they pivoted from a wearable brain-computer interface to a software-first approach to achieve immediate scale.
Trust as a Metric: How they achieved a median "half-second" enter-time, where users trust the AI enough to hit send without even reading the output.
The Agentic Vision: Moving from voice dictation to proactive agents that can send Slacks and plan trips without you ever opening an app.
Universal Accessibility: The profound impact of voice for the 700 million people globally with dyslexia and those with Parkinson’s, proving that the future of computing is truly for everyone.
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Host Glenn Solomon sits down with Elizabeth Weil, founder and Managing Director of Scribble Ventures. Elizabeth shares her remarkable journey from early venture roles to helping scale Twitter from 50 to 3,000 people, building the market development function at Andreessen Horowitz, and ultimately founding Scribble Ventures. She discusses her transition from prolific angel investor (100 companies, 23 unicorns) to managing institutional capital, the breakout success of investments like Whatnot, and her perspective on today's frothy AI market. The conversation explores what makes great founders, common mistakes in the AI era, and the future opportunities Elizabeth is most excited about.
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Host Glenn Solomon sits down with Flo Crivello, Founder & CEO of Lindy. Flo shares his journey from France to Silicon Valley, reflecting on his experiences at Uber and the pivotal transition from Teamflow to Lindy AI.
He explains how Lindy’s no-code AI agents automate business workflows across more than 1,600 apps, and discusses the rapid evolution of AI technology. The conversation dives into the future of AI in business, real-world challenges of AI adoption, and Flo’s advice for other AI founders.
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In this episode, Dan Cahana sits down with Tony Holdstock-Brown, co-founder and CEO of Inngest.
Key Topics Covered:
Why simplifying APIs without losing power is the ultimate design challenge
How to filter customer feedback when building broad infrastructure tools
The future of developer tools in an AI-dominated coding landscape
Lessons from Docker's explosive growth and subsequent struggles
Building company culture around developer experience obsession
The shift from traditional workflows to AI agent orchestration
Whether you're building developer tools, working in infrastructure, or just curious about the future of software development, this conversation offers insights from someone who's been at the forefront of multiple waves of developer tool innovation.
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