The Founder Formula

In this episode of The Founder Formula, co-hosts Sandy Salty and Todd Gallina sit down with Yoav Landman, Co-Founder of JFrog, to explore how an open source project born out of a real developer pain point evolved into a publicly traded company serving organizations around the world. Yoav shares the origin story behind JFrog plus another company he founded, the early challenges of building an infra...

In this live Founder Formula conversation recorded at Trace3’s Evolve conference, your hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty sit down with Yoav Regev, Co‑Founder and CEO of Sentra . Regev traces his path from nearly 25 years in Israeli military intelligence (including leadership within Unit 8200) to founding Sentra, where his team helps enterprises move faster by understanding, governing, and securin...

This special episode of The Founder Formula goes behind the scenes with Garima Kapoor, Co‑Founder of MinIO, and was recorded live at Trace3’s Evolve Conference! Your co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty reflect with Garima on her founder’s journey, growing an open‑source‑first product into enterprise impact, and what it takes to serve the AI era’s demand for on‑prem, exascale object storage. This...

The rise of machines has led to a tsunami of machine identities. This Founder set out to manage those identities and protect their secrets. In this episode, of The Founder Formula, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty interview Oded Hareven, the Co-Founder and CEO of Akeyless. The three of them discuss the significance of the Akeyless name, the commitment it takes to found a company, fundrais...

In this episode of The Founder Formula, learn all about Lauren Fitzpatrick Shank’s journey to entrepreneurism. Lauren is the Founder and CEO of KeepWOL, a game-centric talent development platform.  Listen in to this episode of The Founder Formula to hear directly from a Founder whose mission is to help leaders deeply understand their employees. Plus, you’ll hear about building a brand that solves...

This Founder has years of experience helping billion-dollar companies realize their full potential, including the data security company he founded, Rubrik. In Bipul Sinha’s world, data is the most critical asset. Co-hosts Todd Gallina and Tony Olzak sit down with Bipul and discuss the importance of selling strategy, and then share some valuable insights into the world of data security, entrepreneu...

This Founder has some surprising additional talents outside of founding a company that’s raised $20 million in VC funding to hunt for networked devices. After helping several start-up brands market their solutions, Chris Kirsch joined the founding team of runZero and is currently the company’s CEO.  In addition to a fun round of “fact or fiction,” The Founder Formula co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sand...

Security teams sometimes need to tackle big transformations as they keep up with today’s threat landscape. This two-time Founder set out to make that transformation less intimidating. In this episode, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty interview Guy Podjarny, the Founder and President of Snyk. The three of them discuss how Guy was able to overcome a catastrophic failure, the importance of w...

Identity and data are intrinsically linked. In fact, our guest in this episode tells us 10 years from now the only things that will mater in cloud computing and cybersecurity will be people and data. The rest is just details. In this episode, co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty of Trace3 interview Mohit Tiwari Co-Founder & CEO at Symmetry Systems. Mohit tells us all about his transition from...

This Founder challenges others looking to start a business to ask themselves - Why do you want to start a company? Ermetic Co-Founder Arick Goomanovsky is a two-time founder who appreciates the ever-evolving journey of founding a company. In this episode, co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty sit down with Arick to discuss the inner workings of launching Ermetic, a cloud security startup which has...

This entrepreneur knows that to build a successful company, the clients’ experiences, motivations, issues, and mindset comes first. Vikram Kapoor, Co-founder and CTO of Lacework, talks about the origins of his customer-centric mentality in his journey of building a Series D funded technology startup. Vikram tells co-hosts Sandy Salty and Todd Gallina about the most important factors in scaling Lac...

You need these two things to start a company: a really big idea and a plan for how to get there. Our guest today has an absolutely mammoth idea…Passwordless authentication. In this episode, we interview Rakesh Loonkar, President & Co-Founder at Transmit Security and four-time founder, about how his latest company achieved the largest series A in the history of cybersecurity with a big idea and...

Big tech companies have their pros and cons; but compared to the freedom found in startups, the choice was a no-brainer for Armon. In this episode, we interview Armon Dadgar, Co-founder and CTO at HashiCorp, about how his company gained success through a balanced relationship with the co-founder, seed money from trusted investors, and changing hats as the CTO to best fit the specific concerns of t...

Menlo was founded, in part, because five cybersecurity experts were fed up. Security products should stop bad things from happening — but they didn’t. Founding his second company on the premise of “Hey, we can do better” has taken this entrepreneur all the way to validation in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant within a decade. In this episode, we interview Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO at Menlo Security, about less...

Celebrating a massive milestone - $225 million in Series F funding for Illumio - our guest today is startup guru and network security expert, Andrew Rubin. Illumio is at the bleeding edge of the cybersecurity maelstrom with their groundbreaking work in Zero Trust Segmentation. Andrew offers up his entertaining insights on cyber security, his history as a successful entrepreneur and fashion investo...

For this Founder, getting out of the cubicle and teaching completely changed his life and his career. We’re talking to Mike Pfeiffer this week on The Founder Formula. He’s the CEO and Founder of CloudSkills.io, the most immersive cloud and devops learning community in the world. Mike realized as he was working in tech support and cloud architecture that his true calling is to teach, but on his own...

Why would you launch a company when you’re already working at your dream job? If you’re Brian Wheeler, the answer is simple: you can stay a partner at your dream job, while also able to branch out and launch a new company. It was a win/win. In this episode of The Founder Formula, we talk to Brian, who is a partner at Bertram Capital, and the cofounder of Morpheus Data, a cloud application manageme...

How do you know when you’ve built a winning culture? More importantly, how do you know when you’ve succeeded in instilling your core values across the entire company? We’re talking this week to Ian Tien, CEO at Mattermost, an enterprise messaging workspace for teams to collaborate securely and effectively. His career has taken him through various areas of the entertainment industry including found...

If you’re not using video to communicate your message, odds are that you’re missing a huge array of potential investors, consumers, and users. And before you make excuses about your company not being exciting, or your product not sexy enough for video, take a listen to this episode of The Founder Formula. This week we're talking to Evan Macmillan, CEO and Co-Founder at Gridspace, an AI-driven...

Last Episode we spoke with a man who has been called the Father of Video Games. Silicon Valley legend Nolan Bushnell. If you haven’t listened, make sure you go back and do so, because we talked all about his career up through his time at Atari, and ultimately the sale of Atari to Warner Media. In part 2 of our interview with Nolan, we’re covering the second half of his career. With someone as stor...

For the 25th episode of The Founder Formula, we thought we’d pull out all the stops, and invite one of the most famous founders in Silicon Valley history on the show for a two part extravaganza. If you spent any amount of time in the 1970’s & 1980’s playing Atari, you have our guest, Nolan Bushnell to thank. Nolan founded Atari, and brought video games to the home user, selling over 30 million...

On this week’s episode of The Founder Formula, we talk with Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. In 2019, he was honored for entrepreneurship by Goldman Sachs at their annual Innovator Summit. His company also recently made the news by raising $100M in Series C Funding — so it’s safe to say that Renen knows a thing or two about being a successful founder. Our conversation was incredible, an...

On this week’s episode of The Founders Formula, we talk with Rehan Jalil. Rehan is a successful three-time founder, holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, has over 25 patents either granted or pending, and was named one of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year finalists. It’s safe to say that Rehan knows a thing or two about the founder’s formula, and we were blown away with the wisdom...

Our recent podcast guest and 2-time founder saw entrepreneurship as a way to have an impact on the world. He and his employees wanted to do something to help fight against COVID-19, so they made their whole enterprise solution free to COVID-19 researchers. That’s true impact. That’s wanting your work to do good in the world. In this episode, we interview Justin Borgman, Co-founder & CEO at Sta...

When we asked Todd what clued him in that he was destined to become an entrepreneur, he said, “Intense curiosity.” The first-time founder taught himself Arabic, programming languages, data science, and entrepreneurship. In this episode, I interview Todd Mostak, Cofounder and CEO at OmniSci, about his amazing startup journey. Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favor...