Uncapped with Jack Altman
Uncapped #39 | Daniele Perito from depthfirst
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Daniele Perito is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find real vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
Daniele is also Co-founder and Board Member of Faire, where he previously served as Chief Data Officer and helped build the company’s data, risk, and analytics foundations from the early days to a multi-billion dollar valuation. Before co-founding Faire, Daniele worked at Square and was on the founding team of Cash App, where he focused on security, fraud, and risk systems supporting products used by millions of merchants and consumers.
We covered:
Inception stories from Faire and Cash App
The ultimate truth seeking machine
Building superhuman attackers with AI
Who wins over time: attackers vs defenders
Why security feels like its own world
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Timestamps:
() Intro
() The founding Faire insight
() Operational rigor of marketplace businesses
() Starting a company now vs in 2017
() The inception story of Cash App
() depthfirst’s mission
() AI security landscape
() Security is a fantasy world
() Building superhuman attackers for defense
() Roles of humans and AI in security
() Platform vs pipeline businesses
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