Building Companies to be Legendary | Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder/CEO of SecurityScorecard

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, cofounder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, went from being a 14-year old immigrant to America to building SecurityScorecard — the security ratings platform now used by over 3,000 companies. In this conversation with SquareX founder Vivek Ramachandran, Aleksandr breaks down the real challenges of category creation, his playbooks on entrepreneurship and the importance of understanding the customer. 

0:00 Introduction to Aleksandr
1:22 Aleksandr’s origin story: from Prince of Persia to cybersecurity
6:57 Transitioning from academia to being entrepreneurship
9:30 The market gap discovery that led to SecurityScorecard
16:56 The playbook for creating categories
21:08 “Always think you’re building a legendary company”
26:37 SecurityScorecard’s SCDR (Supply Chain Detection and Response)
28:32 Leadership style: zoom in, zoom out, and transparency
31:05 Browser security as the next big necessity
35:54 Highlights from Aleksandr’s book “The Perfect Scorecard” and closing
 
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Chapters

• 0:00 Episode highlights and introduction to Aleksandr
• 1:22 Aleksandr’s origin story: from Prince of Persia to cybersecurity
• 6:57 Transitioning from academia to being entrepreneurship
• 9:30 The market gap discovery that led to SecurityScorecard
• 16:56 The playbook for creating categories
• 21:08 “Always think you’re building a legendary company”
• 26:37 SecurityScorecard’s SCDR (Supply Chain Detection and Response)
• 28:32 Leadership style: zoom in, zoom out, and transparency
• 31:05 Browser security as the next big necessity
• 33:54 Highlights from Aleksandr’s book “The Perfect Scorecard” and closing