00:28:05 · Tomer Schwartz
[00:28:05] S2: Yeah, I've been around the block. So I was CTO and co founder of a company called Dazz, which was acquired by Wiz, and that's how I ended up here. Prior to that, I was CTO and co founder in a company called Armis that is now acquired by ServiceNow. I think the cybersecurity industry for startups is really interesting right now because the typical playbook that we used to have pre AI has completely changed. It's changed because of the same reasons that we've been talking about today. I think AI is changing everything about not only cybersecurity, but also the underlying IT infrastructure, about the way that we think about how organizations are actually doing a lot of different things. We talked about patching, for example, but also changes the way that they think about internal applications, and it changes the way that they think about how to utilize AI as a replacement to labor. There's so many different changes that are happening right now where the blueprint is not really well defined for us to build cybersecurity solutions on top of. So for me, it's really interesting times to be in the cybersecurity industry. I think that for for those startup companies that are already out there, I think if you haven't thought about how to reinvent yourself given the changes that are happening, then now is probably the best time to do this. But but the other thing is for those who are thinking about getting into the cybersecurity industry from from a start up angle, I think you gotta think about the changes that are happening in different ways to capture sort of the the broader set of the market and thinking about how technology is going to change and as a function to that, how cybersecurity products are going to change.
00:29:47 · Rebecca Balan, Tomer Schwartz, S0
[00:29:47] S1: Definitely. That's great advice. Well, we're just about out of time, but I wanted to... There was that website, can you say it again, that people can come to if they have questions? [00:29:56] S2: Yeah, it's phptouchel.com. Pretty straightforward. [00:30:01] S1: Okay, great. And where can our listeners connect with you online? [00:30:04] S2: Either there or on Twitter or on LinkedIn, you can find me. I'm Tomer Schwartz. Somewhat difficult to spell, but I'm sure that the name is out there in the podcast description. Yeah. [00:30:16] S1: Well, thank you again for joining us on the show. To our listeners, you can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn as well. You can find Equity on Twitter and threads at Equity Pod. Talk to you next time. [00:30:27] S0: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch senior reporters and produced by Teresa Loconzola with editing by Cal. Subscribe on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts and find out what's [00:30:36] S1: next at techcrunch.com/events. Thanks so [00:30:38] S0: much for listening, and we'll talk to you next time.