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23B is a staggering number for a 4 year old cyber security startup with 900 employees
by nothrowaways 2y ago
23B is a staggering number for a 4 year old cyber security startup with 900 employees
- onion2k 2y agoAs with most things in tech, time served is pretty much irrelevant. If you do something valuable fast you can build a lot of value quickly.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoYou can build a lot of perceived value, as we've learned from so many acquisitions becoming hot potatoes a few years down the run.
- llm_trw 2y agoThat's 800 employees too much. The reason why tech sucks these days is because everyone over hires and empire builds.
- qeternity 2y agoSales. They have huge ARR after a few short years because it’s a sales org with a few engineers scattered about.
- llm_trw 2y agoSo not a tech company. Fair enough.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoAre cloudflare, azure, and AWS not tech companies?
- sofixa 2y agoToo much to build the product, but you need researchers (check out their blog), marketing, sales, solutions engineers, support, legal, accountants, etc.
- underdeserver 2y agoThat's a big claim. Have you seen their product? It's basically a collection of 10-15 distinct cloud security products - CDR, data classification, vulnerability scanning, asset inventory, etc. etc. etc. all working together. Each one of these is a 50-person company on its own.
- whoknowsidont 2y agoQuick build your 100 person company and beat them. It's still early days for them, and you.
- linearrust 2y agoIt isn't unheard of in the tech world. WhatsApp sold itself for $19 billion in 5 years. A lot of people thought it was outrageous when facebook bought whatsapp for $19 billion. Today, everyone views it as a great investment.