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Some of them are very good, and accordingly very expensive. A non-exhaustive look through the LinkedIn profiles of the former security team doesn't show any pr
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Some of them are very good, and accordingly very expensive.
A non-exhaustive look through the LinkedIn profiles of the former security team doesn't show any previous startup-to-IPO security experience. If Patreon is preparing the company for eventual IPO, getting everything security-related aligned with the due diligence expected for an IPO is critical.
I would guess Patreon is simply engaging with an external firm that has past experience preparing security at a company for IPO. The laid off security team might have been otherwise good engineers, but not necessarily the right team needed to prep a company for IPO.
- dogman144 4y agoA fun exercise is scouting the sec eng numbers and tenure of a pre-IPO shop, or of more concern vendors that are all over product teams. Big yikes
- wink 4y agoThe probability of your whole team not being the right people is very low to begin with, and you kinda have to assume none of them would be up for the task of growing into that role, with external support. Sure. I dunno, either all they did is actually covered by developers and ops, or they're getting rid of a lot institutional knowledge.