Hacker to Founder: Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship with Jeremiah Grossman, Founder, WhiteHat Security

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 Yahoo
4:59 Founding WhiteHat Security and creating a common AppSec lexicon
9:20 How Jeremiah got started presenting in conferences
12:11 How the hacking scene has changed to becoming a vocation
14:44 Making the leap from security researcher to founder
18:49 Advice for founders: the 3 types of people to talk to daily
24:19 After WhiteHat: achieving success with SentinelOne
28:54 Moving on to being a venture capitalist
35:25 Advice to budding cybersecurity entrepreneurs: lock on to that one problem
39:37 Why browser security is at odds with the advertising model
43:34 On being a SquareX advisor and investor
49:23 Final thoughts and where to connect with Jeremiah
 
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Chapters

• 0:00 Jeremiah’s early days in cybersecurity and hacking Yahoo
• 4:59 Founding WhiteHat Security and creating a common AppSec lexicon
• 9:20 How Jeremiah got started presenting in conferences
• 12:11 How the hacking scene has changed to becoming a vocation
• 14:44 Making the leap from security researcher to founder
• 18:49 Advice for founders: the 3 types of people to talk to daily
• 24:19 After WhiteHat: achieving success with SentinelOne
• 28:54 Moving on to being a venture capitalist
• 35:25 Advice to budding cybersecurity entrepreneurs: lock on to that one problem
• 39:37 Why browser security is at odds with the advertising model
• 43:34 On being a SquareX advisor and investor
• 49:23 Final thoughts and where to connect with Jeremiah